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| Congrats on the new skid steer. It looks to be about the size of my CAT 259. I really wished I could open the front door with the arm raised... You mentioned plowing snow with it and I use mine occasionally to do that. You will find that the rubber tracks make traction a bit difficult on any surface that isn’t’ the pretty flat. They sell tungsten screws that you can just drill into the track that greatly improve the traction....or you can be a cheap SOB like me and just get a box of machine screws and screw one on each pad. They last several plowing sessions and for the coin can’t be beat.
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| Old Rugged Cross, in 30 years of running a tree service, I only used an excavator on a job one time. It was big Deere that was probably in the 15 ton range. I had to remove a huge Oak tree that fell into a golf course pond. We used it to drag the pieces to shore, then grab it with the thumb and load it on a truck.
An excavator could be used to dig out stumps and stack logs. For us, a stump grinder is more efficient and a skid steer is faster at moving and stacking logs. |
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| Very nice.....Temperature controlled cab is a nice thing to have |
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| Thanks suppressed, I understand. I am just not sure a Skidsteer would be versatile enough for me. An excavator can push smallish trees down, roots and all. Can stack slash, dig out stumps, clear area's. Reach out and touch stuff. How do you stack logs. I assume you have forks or a grapple attachment?
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| quote: Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Thanks suppressed, I understand. I am just not sure a Skidsteer would be versatile enough for me. An excavator can push smallish trees down, roots and all. Can stack slash, dig out stumps, clear area's. Reach out and touch stuff.
How do you stack logs. I assume you have forks or a grapple attachment?
I use a log grapple. Here it is on my New Holland LS180:  I can grab logs from the side or on the ends and load a truck from the rear. |
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| Sweet, maybe I could use one of them 
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| I had a bunch of tree work done this year and I was shocked at the power of the little stand-on piece of equipment that they used. Most of the trees were way to big to get your arms around and this little thing would pick them up like it was nothing and run them up a steep hill like it didn't have a load. Super efficient.  |
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| Thanks Cheni, I guess I was pretty close at $70k new. i appreciate you posting that link. Happy new year.
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