Removing small trees

I love running a chainsaw and cutting down trees. I also sit on my ass all week, so love the physical labor of doing tree work. I am a cheap bastard too with no access to any heavy equipment. I would be tempted to go at them with a chainsaw. Do you have a gulley or anything you could roll the logs into? About 1.5-2 yrs ago I cleared about a 20'x50' area to build my shed. I rolled all the big logs into a gulley, and hauled the brush off on my car hauler and in the back of my truck.
 
We have a plan in place. I imagine @13bullets will post some during and after pics. Coal will be rolled and fire will be blazing!
 
drkelly said:
I love running a chainsaw and cutting down trees. I also sit on my ass all week, so love the physical labor of doing tree work.
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Thats a big part of why I enjoy that kinda stuff too. Dang desk job.
 
drkelly said:
I love running a chainsaw and cutting down trees. I also sit on my ass all week, so love the physical labor of doing tree work. I am a cheap bastard too with no access to any heavy equipment.
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Agree 100%. Which is why I'm currently driving over small trees with my one ton xj and cutting them up and burning them at the Fiancee's house. At some point I'm going to have to rent beg borrow something to remove some large trees and stumps but right now it's the jeep and my husky saw!
 
Pic dump, because I'm to tired to go through them. I'll say this, @jeepinmatt earned every nickel of his money and I'd have never gotten this done alone.
 

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The fire was a real pain to get going, but it's roaring now. One of these pics should be a panorama of the finished product, at least for this phase.

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And of course my day had to start with getting a hydraulic hose made! At least it started spraying fluid last night instead of while we were working today. After that things went well. I bet we plucked out about 200 trees. That fire pic doesn't do it justice. Its probably 15ft in diameter of burning mass. Here's the only pics I took:
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I was hauling trees for a man Thursday, as he used a rented track hoe. Just after lunch, a hydraulic line blew. Ruined his day, & I got cut off a Good job! Seems a common occurrence, even on New machines, a hose a week! :fuck-you:
 
rodney eppes said:
I was hauling trees for a man Thursday, as he used a rented track hoe. Just after lunch, a hydraulic line blew. Ruined his day, & I got cut off a Good job! Seems a common occurrence, even on New machines, a hose a week! :fuck-you:
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We rented a Bobcat mini at work. Had 20hrs on it when they dropped it off.... Blew a line within a few hrs. The hose going around the elbow was rubbing on an exposed bolt and wore through the jacket and hose.
 
Nice! I'm either going to have to rent one of those or a mini excavator at some point. Or have a party with people that don't mind a drive to work for food and beer! The new wife cooks very well! Going to get back to my clearing our property for my shop probably this weekend.
 
I've called 4 concrete guys about a 20x25 foot pad with a footer, three have called me back but only one has shown up. I'm looking at 4k in concrete work and the steel building I'm wanting to put up is a little over 5k. It's a bit more than I was wanting to put into it right now but it takes what it takes.
 
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R Q said:
An alternative would be to cut them as close to flush with the ground and AS SOON AS you cut them, wipe the remaining truck with pure Round Up concentrate. Use a small painters bucket and a paint brush. Its amazing how fast they will rot if you kill them when you cut them.
If you come in with a skid steer or excavator it will make a large mess to clean up plus disturb the ground a lot.
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I have about a half-dozen small (3-4") volunteer trees and bushes (and a damn Holly bush) I need to get rid of. Too lazy to shovel them all. This seems perfect.
Dumbs question - do you use the complete vegetation killer, or the more specific stuff? I do want to eventually get grass there. How long does it take for it to really rot? Like weeks or a whole season?
 
RatLabGuy said:
I have about a half-dozen small (3-4") volunteer trees and bushes (and a damn Holly bush) I need to get rid of. Too lazy to shovel them all. This seems perfect.
Dumbs question - do you use the complete vegetation killer, or the more specific stuff? I do want to eventually get grass there. How long does it take for it to really rot? Like weeks or a whole season?
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Just use concentrated Round up, The same stuff you add 1.5 oz per gallon of water in a spray tank. I use a small container and a paint brush to apply AND use rubber gloves. And its a whole season or more for them to rot but the chemical is gone quickly so no residual.
 
R Q said:
Just use concentrated Round up, The same stuff you add 1.5 oz per gallon of water in a spray tank. I use a small container and a paint brush to apply AND use rubber gloves. And its a whole season or more for them to rot but the chemical is gone quickly so no residual.
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x2. If you cut them within a inch or two of the ground, you can still grow grass around them and they will not bother you much when mowing.
 
Still messing with the property on the weekends. This Stump didn’t want to give in. So these will need something else. I'll likely rent something this summer to take those big cluster trees out. Any suggestions? Track hoe?
 

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ghost said:
Still messing with the property on the weekends. This Stump didn’t want to give in. So these will need something else. I'll likely rent something this summer to take those big cluster trees out. Any suggestions? Track hoe?
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A 3 ton or larger excavator, or pretty much any size dozer should be able to roll that right out. For that kinda work, and cleaning up afterwards, rent a 10k pound tracked skidsteer with a stump bucket, grapple, and if you want to grade some, a 4 in 1 bucket (it'll come with a bucket anyway).
 
Lol, I did that same thing with my 78 Bronco. I built a bumper from 10" C channel and 38" boggers and pushed them down. Then I drug them to a burn pile. It was a slow process, but very cheap!
 
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