OH_Varmntr
Burner of stored sunlight
Wouldn't really call it a job, as I'm doing it for free. Being paid in all the wood I want. And there's probably 5 to 6 years of firewood along the ditches. Maybe more.
Friend of mine has a 210 acre farm that's currently in CRP. They want the ditchbanks cleared of all trees so they can dredge them and run tile when the CRP expires.
They have an excavator with a claw bucket and will pile up the trees once I have them on the ground.
Here's where I'm unsure of how I will proceed. Once it's all piled up, do I process what I can on-site (cut/split), or do I haul logs home and process them at the house?
If I haul it home, I'm losing out one travel time (~45 minute round trip). If I do it on-site, I have to haul all my gear up there (quad, splitter, etc...). I've got a 16' trailer and my truck and can load the truck and trailer up as much as I want without too much worries.
I figure I can move the most wood if I process on-site but I don't have a ton of man power so it will be time consuming to split/stack then restack when I get home.
I've also thought of just loading logs on the trailer then unloading them at the house and leave them logs for awhile. That will get the fields cleared faster.
How would you guys do it? There's abot 3/4 of a mile of ditchbanks, trees ranging from a few inches up to about 24" across. Nothing too huge.
Friend of mine has a 210 acre farm that's currently in CRP. They want the ditchbanks cleared of all trees so they can dredge them and run tile when the CRP expires.
They have an excavator with a claw bucket and will pile up the trees once I have them on the ground.
Here's where I'm unsure of how I will proceed. Once it's all piled up, do I process what I can on-site (cut/split), or do I haul logs home and process them at the house?
If I haul it home, I'm losing out one travel time (~45 minute round trip). If I do it on-site, I have to haul all my gear up there (quad, splitter, etc...). I've got a 16' trailer and my truck and can load the truck and trailer up as much as I want without too much worries.
I figure I can move the most wood if I process on-site but I don't have a ton of man power so it will be time consuming to split/stack then restack when I get home.
I've also thought of just loading logs on the trailer then unloading them at the house and leave them logs for awhile. That will get the fields cleared faster.
How would you guys do it? There's abot 3/4 of a mile of ditchbanks, trees ranging from a few inches up to about 24" across. Nothing too huge.