dabeegmon - 11/14/2020 07:17
Alberta Cowman - 11/13/2020 21:46
Nobody has one within a couple hours of me. I’ve seen them on YouTube but never seen one in action. I’m not sure how they would handle 16-24” spruce and bams?
I like to roll the stumps out. Makes for a clean field when breaking. And when I bought my last cat and brush rake I totally blew the budget and then some so I couldn’t afford to look at a cutter anyway. Lol
http://www.dikaindustries.com/rental-equipment.html
These guys were the kings of land breaking equipment for many many years.
Made some really stout equipment.
What you see on the page is a small subset of what they have produced!
IIRC you're running a D7something or other.
Just south of Valleyview there are a couple three cutters and maybe a piler or two.
(Drove by in September.
) The spray paint said at least one of the cutters was for a D7? something range.
When you roll the stumps out you drag a lot of clay along. In light soils not such an issue.
We had some solid at the stump poplar up to slightly over 36" in dia.
The cutter used resulted in a very very clear pile. Clean enough so that in a 7/8 of a mile long windrow there were only 5 re-piles! There was very very little dirt on the stumps as well.
When you burn the pile and the stumps have any amount of dirt - - - -well that soil is quite useless for a LONG time.
(A good piler also makes a difference. That is NOT a standard cat blade.
)
Seems like the tools that were so common from the 50s through to the 80s have disappeared.
Knew one guy who ran D9Gs and he was clearing about a township a winter for some over 30 years.
Two cats with good operators piling could get a quarter done real quick.
POTD
