Talking bout turf damage
In my experience, the "no impact to turf" jobs are few and far between, in my area anyways, most people are understanding that your taking a freakin tree out! Don't get me wrong, we make every reasonable attempt to avoid damage. But dirt and seed is cheap and if you know how to run a skid loader, well then you shouldn't have to many problems. If and when we need to worry about the turf, we carry plywood in to where I am to pick the wood up, then I have a turn around. But when going in straight lines, the machine doesn't hurt anything. If it is "no impact" then no machine goes in, its that simple. That's what wheel barrows and dollies are for. As for the truck, if it goes in, so does the wood. no need for a 1000 pieces for the long haul, we lay out double the truck/chipper length and piggy back them til we geter in. Most people are more concerned about hitting their home and could care less about the yard, this doesn't mean that we go in guns a blazin when they tell us we can. When we leave a job, every single time, the yard always looks better than we we got there. I do a lot of back yard forest thinning/land clearing projects, where I am loading out the dump trailer 10-15 times, many, MANY trips back and forth, plywood doesn't help on those, as mud and derbies builds up, they become a skating rink, I go right thru the yard. I bid in damage to turf and have my buddy come in with the hydro seeder and mini skid to fix. Sometimes we sod. As long as they are aware of what you are doing, then all should be well. On little jobs, such as what AA had in the video, we would not even had put a machine in there, that's all stuff someone would have drug to the street with ease. I have brought a lawn mower such as AA's out, on very long hauls to the street for brush, but only when its a super long haul and we have tons of brush. The machine I use for that is a Bieiner 2000, custom built 27hp, blown w/nitrous. Painted by Foose and tuned by Jeese James. Paid 250 for it and it will do everything a 20k stiener will. :hmm3grin2orange: