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Remove Stumps and Debris with Heavy Machinery

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Bulldozer (track loader) Excavator getting started clearing fields on the farm! See how it's done!

What happens here

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  • CAT 318CL Excavator
  • CAT 963 Track Loader / Bulldozer

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[Laughter] I just got back from our road trip and I have a nasty cold like summertime colds are the worst I really don't feel like doing a vlog but this is only gonna happen for a couple days these guys are rocking and rolling and moving let's go over here and check it out and I'll describe to you what they're doing it's really cool so you can see right here the loader is pushing up a stump and it's really interesting to watch and push and how they dig this out some of these stumps will have deeper roots the hardwood trees the oats and stuff and some of them have really shallow roots so he's pushing these stumps up so this morning when I woke up it was like a tank battalion was in my front lawn this has been going on for about three days now and they've been doing it over on the other side of the farm and they just showed up this morning brought their equipment over and got to work really expensive project here okay guys each machine is costing me $100 an hour right now so you can do the math a 10-hour day as two thousand bucks a day but these guys can clear some land it's working out to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 to $1,000 per acre and you can't really tell but there's a big gully here and they're gonna fill in that gully take all the old stumps and brush roll them over in there cover them up with dirt in a heap so after it settles it'll smooth out flat let's get a little more footage of these guys so there's really no fumbling around here guys they are hitting it hard this is what's happened in the last 15 minutes so guys and gals the times are over about fussing about having to work or not having anything to do here on the farm because look back here behind me there's a lot of work going in store for me you got to go over to the county and get the no-till seed drill and we'll show you how all this stuff works and we'll drill in grass seed after it get this all smoothed out the process goes they clear out the land and then they'll come over with a big disc harrow and I'll show you all this stuff and then we'll come back in behind them and seed it out and fertilize it and make sure we get some good grass started so that the land doesn't wash the ultimate

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