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  1. ARPlante

    Demolition, clearing and grading

    Awesome pics Landclearer!
  2. ARPlante

    Need some help estimating a large clearing job please

    I saw the pics of the air burner- cool set up! I've heard of them using those on ROW clearing projects as well. Roadside work actually goes for a bit higher depending on the acre- I've seen some projects go for $15k per acre (granted you only get to work about 75% of the day). I just bid a 70...
  3. ARPlante

    Need some help estimating a large clearing job please

    Very interesting to hear of the price differences between different regions. We do a lot of union clearing work related to highway projects and the going rate for a clear and grub project is about $10,000 per acre up here. Taking out the cost differential for union labor and our clearing rate...
  4. ARPlante

    Need some help estimating a large clearing job please

    $4k per acre? Hmm, up here in the northeast that would go for $8000-$10,000 per acre. Stumping alone is usually a $4,000-$5,000 expense per acre in my neck of the woods once trucking costs to get the stump grindings (all stumps are ground onsite through a horizontal grinder) offsite are figured...
  5. ARPlante

    Looking for a new dozer

    x2 on the D5K or K2 series machine. We had a 2011 D5K LGP for a couple years that we bought from our dealer's rental fleet with around 300 hrs on it. We set the machine up with a Trimble automated laser control system for some cranberry bog work we were doing and that machine was excellent for...
  6. ARPlante

    Craig Manufacturing

    I run one of their 36" heavy duty digging buckets and a 60" hydraulic grading buckets on a John Deere 160D and am impressed with their quality so far. Would not hesitate to add any of their larger attachments.
  7. ARPlante

    Mixing Volvo and Hitachi Hydraulic Fluid- Good or bad idea?

    Ok guys- thanks. I figured mixing zinc with non-zinc would be a bad thing- thanks for the confirmation.
  8. ARPlante

    Testa Corp out of business?

    JDC Demolition (A subsidiary of J Derenzo excavation) and NASDI seem to be ruling the demolition scene out here now.
  9. ARPlante

    Mixing Volvo and Hitachi Hydraulic Fluid- Good or bad idea?

    Hi guys, We currently have a 2012 John Deere 160D excavator with several specialized land clearing attachments that I would like to share with a new Volvo 160D. I know the Deere/Hitachi runs a zinc free oil, but I was curious if the hydraulic oil in current Volvo excavators is zinc free as...
  10. ARPlante

    Bobcat T770

    I have a 2012 T770 with the roller suspended undercarriage. We run a mulcher, 4n1 bucket, pallets fork, bush hog mower, root grapple, soil conditioner, and a snow plow in the winter. I had a T320 before with a non-suspended undercarriage and going to the T770 with the suspended undercarriage I...
  11. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Ya, the 160 is not very noticeable on the back with that power on the truck. In regards to the bits, we sharpen them ourselves and run them out that way.
  12. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Trailer is a 2005 Fontaine 55 ton. The truck is a 2005 Kenworth W900L with a Cat C-15 bumped up to 600 hp. 3.91 gearing on 46 rears with an 18-speed transmission. Truck currently has 562,000 miles on it.
  13. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Here are some pics from our clearing work at night:
  14. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Time to dust this thread off a bit. We've started picking up a lot of clearing work for larger contractors and we seem to find ourselves working on the edges of roads quite a bit. To do this work, we need to be able to move our machines at all times of the day or night so we decided the time...
  15. ARPlante

    laser for newbie

    I have had very good luck with the Trimble 422 and CR600 receiver. We also have a Trimble 722 for the auto laser system on our D5 that has been good so far.
  16. ARPlante

    Deere 200D vs 225D

    I've run both a bit and what you choose will probably depend on what you want to do with it. I demoed a 225D when we were trying to decide on what excavator we wanted to put a mulcher head on and then I ran a 200D a little while later doing some dirt work. If I were to choose a machine, I...
  17. ARPlante

    Spectra Precision Laser Model GL422

    I'll echo what the other guys said about the benefits of the unit. We've had a 422 for 3 years with no issues reported so far. I even had good success using it as the main laser (before our 722 laser unit came in) for my Cat D5KLGP with Trimble autolaser setup as long as I was within 500' of...
  18. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Here's another project we completed earlier this year. Nice little mowing project- 22 miles in total :cool:
  19. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Thanks for the reply CD. We actually bought the 50D back in 2009 before the E50 and E55 were introduced to the market. For us at the time, the deciding factors in going with the Deere over any other brand were the Deere's hydraulic flow to run the mower head (highest at the time at 22.5 gpm)...
  20. ARPlante

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Here are the rest of the pics from the project.
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