It is nice to see someone that takes pride in the work they do , your grandpa would be very proud of you Chris, he is smiling up there looking over you.

I live in Kansas and I use to go on vacation to Colorado frequently. All along the highway I could see farmland having the same things done. Bulldozers, belly scrapers and excavators digging up stumps, using rippers, etc on big acreage to prepare the fields. Many of those farms have been sold and are all grown up with trees and weeds again. Such a shame!

Nice video. Great work and well done. Thanks for the video. Have a wonderful day 👍 👍 👍 👍

Always good to see a decent operator who knows what hes doing , well done mate

You make it look so easy. Also know it takes a lot of concentration to take off just the bad material. I saw on stoney ridge farmer where he switched out his farm tractor seat for a cylinder cushioning seat for about a $100. You even said the dozer is rough to ride and wondering if it would be worthwhile to change out dozer seat for a more comfortable seat. Don't know about longevity, but he's 6' 5", a pretty big guy. Thanks for sharing.

I remember decades ago,,, we laid pipe and they put me on a grader. Old old grader. Anyhoo my first time on one and when I got done the ole man told me I did a perfect wash board job. Lol. God bless and peace from Virginia. 🚜👍

It`s good to see you use all the functions of the PAT blade ,a lot of operators don`t & are not getting the best from the machine . Keep pushing .

That little garden tractor does a pretty good job

Been watching a few of your videos as they come up on my suggestions, i find excavators and earth movers intersting, used to wotk at a factory where we made cutting edges for cat dozers, also we repaired all kinds of excavator buckets, really interesting videos, keep up the good work Do like the long reaches you operate, one of the first of your videos i watched was where you were scraping weeds out of a pond with the long reach 👍

Looks like the type of job that would rattle your eye teeth out! Thanks for the video.

I've done a lot of clearing for farmers and 90 percent of the time it's behind loggers which is a mess and usually is grower up like this too. If you catch it in winter you can burn it off before you clear but then you and every filter there is stays so full of ashes. Jus adds to the irritation of hitting hidden stumps and getting he'll beat out of you all day. TBE rome disc works good but they hang up w stumps if there are a lot of them.good video. That kind of clearing is a pain

Looks like your doing best you can with what you got. 👍. It’s the old saying. If Iffens and buts were candy and nuts we’d all have a Merry Christmas..

We scrapped out an old "new ground disc" a few yrs ago - would have been perfect for this.. blades were 36" in dia.. 5/8" thick and SHARP.. it was 10 ft wide- and built very heavy- took a D6 to pull it.. it cut easy about a foot deep, and would roll out any stumps less than a foot in dia, split most of the rest... Old farmer would run it 3 times a year for two years, then he could plow and plant.. I think the brand was Rome- but I may be mistaken...

Worked in this business 30 yrs you are good ho man retired watching your vids from tabusintac New Brunswick carry on

"can't clear with the dozer.... stumps are to big".... ummm Chris I think it might be time for a bigger dozer there good buddy.... cheers from Canada!

Makes me cry watching someone do it the hard way

Man that hurts my back I can not or want to know how it really fells I fell for ya god bless ya hope you got a hot tub some where you can get in.And now I know if I get land and need to clear it and the guys says we can mulch it am going to fire him before he start

Mulching definitely has it place, a small place. I owned a FAE attached to a 100hp skid steer and it was a workout for the skid. I have a Komatsu PC 200 LC-6 now and would much rather clear with it. Im a little partial to the Komatsu’s but those Volvo’s are some jam up machines. That’s a good all around dozer. Great videos.

So you knocked some brush down .. WOW

got to love running a dozer always fun

I would not wish that field on my worst enemy! That is like a nightmare come true!

I've ran a lil bit of everything, a dozer just isn't one I have. Papa had an old allis chalmer track loader when I was a little feller. Guess that's kind of the same. Good video.

Looks like for a mere few millions you could get a Komatsu D575A that would love to level the land!

Question:- why don’t they rip the stumps out when they are felling the trees and then have clear ground to re-plant or turn into farm land ?

I feel your pain man, those make for long days! It’s so aggravating running on stumps or rocks. Just beats you to death!

Real working conditions for the dozer. Made my back and neck hurt just watching...lol. ....13

Same as always, people should do it right in the first place, it just ends up costing twice as much.

That's some nice bulldozerin' chris. Real nice. Thx for the vid as always!

Yep those stumps hurt like hell. U have a good big push goin an bam. Back up an go again

Heavy Rome offset disk = done!

Nice work, man. Where is that lot You've been clearing with the dozer?

It's funny how geography can look the same in different parts of the country. In watching your video it looked like the U.P. in Michigan.

Ya know Chris ... The way that YOU clear, chipping/mulching would work fine, because when YOU clear, you take em out by the roots!

what I see here is an opportunity to sell this farmer some of that dirt from that big pond dredging project you still have ongoing.......

Is it your company who has the diggers & dozers or someone you work for? Great videos dude. You got another subscribe n like. Keep up the quality work.

You cut the trees, clear the stumps, then mulch the whole mess. The contractor before you botched the job he was hired to clear a field for a farm and left stumps in place to break plows. About the only thing that will get that done quickly is a forestry plow and an excavator, which is sorta what you are doing. Unearting stumps with the dozer and sorting them and the roots out with the excavator.

I’ve done the same with a large skid steel and a tooth bucket, just takes a little longer, but enough time and it all drys out enough to burn it all

Looks like a "politician"owns the field..nothin done..!ha ha

Nice job sir!

Good idea when clearing a field for crops is to first burn the existing flora.. then do the clearing.. that way you also burn the seeds.. 😀😄😁

My JD 450G can pretty easily knock over a 20" butt pine with some root prep and can knock over a 10" pine with a straight push. But a fresh 4" gum stump will stop it dead in its tracks.All about leverage. What you're dealing with is just a sucky task: but you're getting it done. Commenters saying bring in a dragline? or a D-9 blah,blah,blah: for a 2 acre job?! If owner doesn't get a plow onto it followed by a disc(probably multiple times) he'll have the same mess in a couple of years.Roots go deep and trash will keep coming back:especially gum trees and pin oak.

The dirt that will be hauled away would make great top soil in a few years after everything rots away.

Timmy !!!! in the geto VOLVO need to make a bulldozer. this dozer is out of its depth but if thats is all you have then just do the best you can! but its like a asthmatic turtle with a load of shopping bags

These digging videos are strangely entertaining.

the dude could have at least bushogged the area and kept it grass

How do u like the d39?

That whole job could have been done with a D9 dozer. Just run through with the ripper, pull up the stumps the blade it all off.

Yup...that sucks.. mulching forest for pasturage = clearing it twice every time 🤪

I would of use a dozer rake teeth on it, they rip up roots, rocks, stumps! That they use to make a golf area with!

have a few questions about the dozer. The engine always kind of sounded like it was under powered to me i’m wondering if that’s just because of the dozer’s Age, or is it a lot more powerful than it sounds? Also how big is the dozer?

How much does it cost to own, operate, and maintain one of these machines?

Looks like a job for a raker blade, and maybe some ripper sub-soilers on the back. I bust a Ransomes plough on just a 3 inch root one year.

Hey letsdig18, how did you learn to use machinery?

For jobs like this have you ever thought about getting a forestry tiller? A farmer in my area has one and it will bust up 18 inch tree stumps rocks you name it, it will go down 12 inches deep and turn it into powder, a job like this would take him 2-4 hours to do with one guy

Shoulda got rid of the stumps first time when taking them trees down, only cost them more money then it should have now...

don't understand why some people don't get it. sure bigger equipment would be great. but you got to use what you have.

Well it's a pain but you charge accordingly lol

have you considered using a drott with a ripper on the back?

Just use a mulcher! Haha

They do make a sub soil mulcher that would grind all that in the ground

Could you use a bigger dozer just asking a question I am watching the video

I'm not 100% sure but the very first little bit he pushed looked like a big weed plant lol.

Would your root rake be of value on this job

Nice!

you know down here in South Georgia they use the root rake a lot to do what you're doing today just something to think about talk to you later

Would a root rake not be a better tool for this job?

That sucks, hes getting rid of some good topsoil along with the over growth, thata nice organic soil that will take years to get back, he should've done it right the first time I guess, but we all have our problems, maybe he just didnt have the money at the time or something, if he s going to farm that part hes going to need that good dirt, oh well, got to do what you got to do I guess

If I was the land owner, I would have had someone come in with a forestry cutter (mower) and cut all that mess down to ground lever, then have you guys come in and stump it. He could have drastically cut down on the amount of trash that had to be hauled off just by cutting it all down, real fine, to ground level!

Had to laugh, had an add for fecon mulchers play during this vid, lol

I suppose this was before the purchase of the root rake. Or is their to many stumps to use it?

why wouldn't you use a root rake on that tractor

Get a bigger dozer to clear the stumps too

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You've got to be thankful for hydraulics, that amount of control over the blade wouldn't be possible without them.

I would have used a root rake, then go through and get stumps with excavator, then grade and disk. The dozer blade generates way to much dirt. And with out the dirt you could burn it later.

dozers are slow moving RIPPING BEASTS

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

C'mon guy! You gotta get more aggressive with that there tractor/Dozer!..Are you just learning here? Let's go already!🧐!

Definitely has been a lot of improvements with forestry implements that can be attached to excavators, bulldozers, skid steers and even plows behind a farm tractor that would clear the land all the way down removing the stumps and turning the land into farm land Also, we don't remove debris from the property if a land owner has a forest tree line all material is ran thru a grinder then mulcher that throws the land debris into the forest making nutrients soil for the forest even sometimes putting a make shift roll of wood debris pile for animal shelters for rabbits and other wildlife Some states even require these measures in order to clear the land a percentage of debris to be left for wildlife, improvements to the soil ,even planting trees along forest lines These measures have increased wildlife and healthy forest In my area of the country these measurements have been taken due to so much land clearing for housing developments, hardly no forest for wildlife to live due to the housing developments I'm a conservative Republican and I definitely agree with these measures to perserve wildlife in my area of the country, actually these measures were a Republican idea, the Demonrats idea to perserve wildlife would have been detrimental to the wildlife due to them not having the forethought to think things thru from A to Z just like all of their worthless ideas

Yo, ur good. I have said it before. But are you open to suggestions? When I bought our property here north of Taos, NM> I rented a 10000 lb skid steer with a brush grapple. I have a river rocky 10 acres here covered with 3 inch and up sage brush. I did about 3 acres clearing in a day. It hurt, but not as bad as you are hurting after this. I just wonder why you didn't use ur track steer with a grapple to plow this stuff? I am learning still at 59 years old and always want to know a better way.

I was telling my wife the other day while driving the Jeep on some dirt roads in North Floo’Da lookin at the Mess the Loggers left, all the hardwoods and pine stumps. I was Trying to Explain to her just how MUCH it Does Hurt . . 3:15 . . to run up on, or Back up on a STUMP in the woods, Goes right up your Tailbone as if you fell back on Concrete....!! 😵😩👎 I had cleared with old D-6’s, mid 70’s, Mt Olive, Fason, Goldsboro NC area, Earnest Tailor first, then Rex Whitfield.....

I had a guy with 8 acres that had been logged 4 years ago and he wanted me to root rake it with all the stumps in it for $1500 per acre. I said no sir, it’ll be more than that if you want me to do!

I'm curious, what size dozer is that you have? It reminds me somewhat of a D3 dozer my family had many years ago in size comparison. I miss driving dozers. Thank you for sharing your video with us.

Dixie Chopper cuts palmetto fields in cut pine stands for clearing and grass planting to create new pastures in fla chops stomps and all push up w/crawlers and burn

But I understand you probably would not need a dozer that size most of the time

could you back drag to skim the top at first? I think it might be a little easier on you. It's also easier to work downhill...

That shit won't burn.

Bigger dozer with a Brush rake would make short work of that area.

Wel Chris you dont need D10t for this 2 acres field .

whatever happened to the lake/pond making project u were working on aways back?

I think it would be cool Chris if you let Timmy do a video one day so we could see from his perspective lol

The question is could you use a bigger dozer

So jealous of your soil. All i got in red pindan

Mulch with a sub soiler and it would be way better than the mulching job that was done before

what if you do the 1st scraping in reverse so you wont hit the stumps head on and get stopped..?

Need a Komatsu D575A-3SD dozer ... (:>)

I'm sorry! You do some great work but are you clearing a runway instead of scrub? Even I cannot bear to watch lack of clearing. So sorry mate!! Down in southern hemisphere my clients would tell me to get out. You do high quality work though. Thank you

Gotta farm it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Letdig18 shout out love your vids

My wife just told me I cant watch you work all day. I got to go do my chores, keep the marriage intact.Yes dear, I am coming.