I try to avoid ending up with limbs but what I do end up with goes to the shop yard to dry and then to the desert for a big bonfire on New Years, and other times if necessary or desired. I have forklifts to handle at shop and try to keep in big bundles.Bonfired where? On site or back at your place?
I have my ideas, I’m just curious how others would do it, etc. Mostly generating discussion. I’m gathering dropping is the quick easy part, removal and disposal is what gets you. Hence straight onto trucks and trailers. Not as fast as the mini X, but close.Honestly, I don’t know.
How long will it take you?
How much waste material will you have to dispose of, and how much will it cost you?
You really have to figure this stuff out yourself.
Can you really drop and load one of those trees in less than an hour? They look pretty damn big for that without some equipment to load them and a massive trailer to haul them. Not to mention drive time and dump time. IMO your estimate is way out of line with reality. Working by yourself loading by hand you would be lucky to do 3 trees per day.I have my ideas, I’m just curious how others would do it, etc. Mostly generating discussion. I’m gathering dropping is the quick easy part, removal and disposal is what gets you. Hence straight onto trucks and trailers. Not as fast as the mini X, but close.
I bet a day for the 9, maybe a little more since the dropoff site is about 30 mins away.
The mesquite…pretty easy flop after topping but winching the logs and breaking down/wrestling the limbs takes time…again, hopefully straight onto the trailer.
Myself and my son, two flatbed trucks (one 20’) with a trailer each. Drop the limbs that go the “wrong” way onto the trans, then the rest of the trees. Maybe. Assuming they will let us drive on the grass. I have not seen them in person, maybe your eye for scale from pics is better. They don’t usually get very big…but one I did that was killed by a house fire was a 75’ ball of foliage.Can you really drop and load one of those trees in less than an hour? They look pretty damn big for that without some equipment to load them and a massive trailer to haul them. Not to mention drive time and dump time. IMO your estimate is way out of line with reality. Working by yourself loading by hand you would be lucky to do 3 trees per day.
I ain’t tooo far from you (if ya got some gas saver wheels) and it would be rad to meet. If I get a job that requires a climber or tree pro I enough to make it worth it I’ll holler. Come to think of it, I might have one. Demo 2-3 palms in the back and one or two Thick laurels in the front.I'm so out of work that my quote would be maybe $1500 for the lot. A Hondo a piece for the nine, the rest for my harness work. But like I said, I'm desperate to do something!
No stranger to log wrasslin’Pack it tight. I've been known to really pack a trailer. Most people, including bosses, don't want to touch a piece of wood, just touch it with the machine in a disorganized way, so the trailer only fit's 1/3 of what it could.
One time I was loading logs, and had a relatively long round trip. I packed it so full, that I decided to stop rather than overload it, which was smart, because it was probably already overloaded. I hauled a good 2-3 times as much as anyone else would have, and I probably could have fit a lot more, but I was struggling with being able to lift many of the logs, with no saw available.
What I'm saying is, don't be afraid to crawl up on the trailer and to a little rearranging by hand and make a few cuts. That time spent is haul time saved.