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    Land Clearing

    Thanks MG84! I like your advise. We are lucky in the fact we do not have rocks in our soil where we are excavating. In the Shale pits or hills we tear down its 100% rock but breaks up easily and packs even better when we build roads in our ranch. We rip then strip then load then pack on roads...
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    In need of a 977L for my Cedar removal with my excavator.

    I am leaning toward a Sosbees rake and tree stabber that makes it safer than safe. Plus you pick up on blade once stabbed and move forward bringing the tap roots and tree up which up is a tree’s weakest point then lay her over then let the rake take her far as you want without dirt like a lot of...
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    In need of a 977L for my Cedar removal with my excavator.

    Thanks for your reply Georgia Iron! To answer your questions yes I own a 35 ton RGN mechanical Detatch. 29 foot well tandem axle. I am getting another single axle that snaps on the back giving me another 25,000. I bought a 2004 Peterbilt 379 ex. Hood Daycab with a fresh rebuilt 3406 C-15 550...
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    Memories for us old truckers

    Would it be a diesel powered mud pump (drilling rig) or irrigation pump?
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    In need of a 977L for my Cedar removal with my excavator.

    Some larger trees plucked with the 240XL.
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    You are exactly Right On! HonkyCat
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    Track Loader to clear trees? Pros/Cons?

    Thanks DMiller: I need more speed than my excavator. It is faster than I am telling but I do not increase the throttle where it would really test the hydraulics, final drives, temperature, etc. Thanks Honky Cat
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    My mother has paid many of the cedar saw operators through the years she was alive and they overcharged her and spent more time fixing their worn out saws that cutting cedars. When I cross a large or smaller stump in my excavator I pluck it out and have not plucked one yet that the roots were...
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    Yes Anthony I drug some savings out of the ground and have less than $30,000 in it and it was bought at auction from a 1- owner that was an electrician and all he did with it was dig right of way ditches for his buried electric cable. Low hours, clean as a whistle and had it shipped to Oklahoma...
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    In need of a 977L for my Cedar removal with my excavator.

    Thank you for the information. I agree that I would like a smaller fuel bill, unfortunately, these high, overpriced fuel prices are pure Communists gouging the American Worker. They will come down, but when? Thanks for the 953 info. Do you know of any? Thanks Honky Cat
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    KSSS I have a takehuchi TL12 and it is a beast in my books but doesnt compare to that 240 LX especially on the large ones. I thought it was all I needed, not. It got parked when the excavator arrived. I had a big clam shell (hydraulic on it) didnt do well as I thought it would in those rolling...
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    Thanks Sir for the advise. You may be right but those trees you see are the smaller end. We have large solid plots of 20-30 footers and my excavator takes 4-5 digs at them instead of 1. I hook from the backside and the bigger ones will lift my 240 off the ground in the back and I ease it dow and...
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    To add to the excavator, I am adding a caterpillar track loader to speed up this project which is under contract. From advice on this forum I was going the wrong way thinking about buying a dozer. Many knowledgeable operators on this forum advised me to get a 377L or 365 or a 363 track loader...
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    Seeking advice on buying an excavator for clearing land.

    I have been taking out cedars for over a year now. They are bid and all sizes. I bought a middle size 240 LX (Link Belt) it weighs 52,000#. I could not ever get the work done with anything smaller as they are slow movers. They are made to dig not travel like a dozer. But, my excavator does three...
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    Memories for us old truckers

    I started in a blue peterbilt in 1980 hauling bulls all over the central and southeast USA. I had never driven one but my dad was a cattle baron and his trucking company he used got short handed and I got picked to haul cattle and horses in that truck, it had a 400 come along in it and turned up...
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