Posted by Banditfarmer on October 07, 2014 at 06:38:05 from (75.186.9.25):
This was a job that needed done for several years, This year things got worse with people dumping in the road ditch so time to clean up. This field was too wet to plant this year witch gave me the chance to get the ditch lines and fence line cleaned up. This road ditch is deep and I do mean deep. It starts out 2 1/2' deep and goes to 5 1/2' deep at its deepest so bush hogging it is about imposable to do with a 3pt bush hog.
I started with a bush hog then went with the skid steer to get what I could with it before my cousin came over with his back hoe. When he showed up and started cleaning the ditch out he pulled stumps out and trash I took off with it to the burn pile, and let me tell you he kept me running hard. 9 tires and 2 truck load of evergreen cutting were pulled out the ditch along with all the stumps and hollies along with the tree saplings and multi-flora rose bushes.
First day we got the ditch cleaned out and started on the fence line. When he started pulling trees out I could not keep up with him. I would grab a tree with the Gehl 4400 push over close to the burn pile cut the root ball off and the limbs off and stack the log, I did 3 or 4 then push the limbs and stumps on the burn pile. The first burn pile was going for 4 days every day and the log piles started moving down the field as we went.
After 3 long days the back hoe work had to stop as my cousin had another job he had to go do put my clean up went on for another week. A harrow-gator works great for picking up all the small stuff and it sure saves the back, Drag it up in a pile by the burn piles then push it in with the skid steer. Disk the ground up and harrow-gate flat when I got done. My cousin Cris came over a cut 2 truck loads (heaped and stacked) of fire wood before I started to move the piles into one, One big pile. Dave came over with his truck and trailer and I gave him a big load to cut up for next years fire wood.
The wood is all gone and the burn piles are gone and I am amazed how much extra dirt I have to spread out now. Lucky it rained and gave me a brake for a few days and I found the leak in the Gehl 4400 and fixed them, Both were under the seat and you know how much fun that was to fix. It only lost 10 gallon of ATF over the week working it for a pin hole in the return line and a bad O-ring on the pressure relief valve. Only took a day to get into it to clean it up to find the leaks. Everything is back in the barn but the dirt piles are still there as well as the stumps to be hauled off to the woods. I have to wait for my cousin to come back to load them in the dump truck, The Gehl wont pick the big ones up and will just move them. well at least with the rain I can now see ware I need the but the extra dirt I now have. Still have more to do but I got a lot done for now. Bandit
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