I have 30 acres on my personal farm in upstate South Carolina that was clear cut February 2022. There is about 13 acres of it that was large pines 20-30” in diameter. The other 17 was a natural growth with mostly pulpwood size trees with some 12-18” trees mixed in. A lot of the scrub sweet gum 4-8” trees are still standing on this part that I would take out as well. I’m looking to go in and stump it and turn it into more pasture and probably plant some as a dove field. I’ve never stumped something this large before and just done a few stumps here and there but want to do it myself. Im looking to rent an excavator for a month or so to knock the stumping out. I’ve got a 10k pound track skid steer, old d4d with a root rake and several tractors and disk to help with cleanup and smoothing. I’ve been getting some quotes on rentals and a smaller place local has the best “deal” I’ve found so far. They have a 160 class machine is their biggest with a thumb but rental with delivery will be just under $3k a month. While a 200 class is about 5500 and up. I’m just looking for advice from some of the more experienced people here on stumping on if it’s possible to get done in a month on a 160 class machine. I have already been going in and cleaning up with my skid steer and grapple to get the limbs and tops and things like that piled and out of the way to see the stumps easier. I also tried to attached some pics of the property for reference.