Bulldozing Trees , Bush

Full Throttle, hat turned backwards and a devilish gleam in your eye. Don't fret too much, just stand on it son and get 'er done😈😈.

Casey

Thanks Casey

Full Throttle, hat turned backwards and a devilish gleam in your eye. Don't fret too much, just stand on it son and get 'er done😈😈.

Casey

[quote="Casey Root"]Full Throttle, hat turned backwards and a devilish gleam in your eye. Don't fret too much, just stand on it son and get 'er done😈😈.

Casey[/quote]

Comments like this even in jest get people killed

Hi, Anyoldiron.
Yep. That wuz my thinkin' too. That wuz not quite the smartest that I have ever seen on this BB and I too thought it had the potential to cause some damage, which is a part of why I jumped in quick with my post.

Just my 0.02.

l read a lot of forums, due to alot FE based addictions, bar the very occasional moronic sniping this is by far the most informative "grown up" if you will site i read ( perhaps the stak as well).

People put alot of stead in what is written here. The practice above will get you killed quickly weather by dead fall a hang or being speared by a sprung willow etc etc, and taking a couple of hours to die.

To my mind theres no place for subtly where safety is concerned.

l read a lot of forums, due to alot FE based addictions, bar the very occasional moronic sniping this is by far the most informative "grown up" if you will site i read ( perhaps the stak as well).

People put alot of stead in what is written here. The practice above will get you killed quickly weather by dead fall a hang or being speared by a sprung willow etc etc, and taking a couple of hours to die.

To my mind theres no place for subtly where safety is concerned.

Ford,
make no mistake; tree work is fraught with danger. If you can organize a ROPS or some kind of protective structure on your tractor, you won't regret it. The bigger the tree, the more potential for misadventure. Be very careful and vigilant. Do one tree at a time and build up an appreciation for their behaviour when they drop. Plenty (and I mean plenty) of people have been killed/maimed because they had a laissez-faire attitude in this situation.
All that said, pushing the trees over in one direction, and then heaping them 90 degrees to that will get you a long way. Deas has good advice. If you can manage to avoid getting a lot of dirt into the burn pile, you'll have good burn results. You could also accomplish a lot (if the trees are big enough) by "giving firewood away". All you'll be left with after that are stumps, which in many ways are easier to deal with that full-size trees. You could invite the local firewood guy in to clear out an agreed section. Just tell him to leave enough stump for you to be able to work with with the tractor.

Cheers,
Neil

Brush and a D7H is one thing. Trees and a D7H are another matter. In my mind trees require ROPS, sweeps and screens then you still have to be careful that a limb doesn't join you in the house and make a shish-kabob out of you. The brush that we deal with is something else. One afternoon we cleared in excess of 20 acres of brush with 2 D7s on either side of a 46A D8. The swath we cut was about 40 feet wide and after a 300 yard run the mountain of brush was incredible. When it was lit, there was rats and rabbits running everywhere.

Casey