Our little slice of the world... - 02/02/17 04:31 PM
Ok, I've been on the site for a little over a year. The amount of knowledge here at times is almost overwhelming but has been HUGELY helpful.
We purchased almost 13 acres in North Florida about 18 months ago, when we bought the land we actually had no idea what it looked like as only 2 acres were cleared (where the house sat.. video link will provide all the needed "color" there)
https://youtu.be/7kOrRBwULoI
So over the course of the last 15 months we have been steady working at selectively clearing a little over 6.5 acres that will be cross fenced into 3 pastures.
I initially was going to have someone come in a dig the 3 small ponds we want (which primarily will be for livestock and controlling the water level), but every quote I got was ridiculously priced when coupled with the remaining clearing work I needed to have done.
I have run my fair share of heavy equipment over the years, and have access to a fairly decent size backhoe, but I knew that wasn't going to be all I needed for this project. So I made a few phone calls and as it turns out renting equipment wasn't as bad as I expected. So, in two weeks I will have a Bobcat e85 Excavator (basically a 9 ton machine) with a 24" and 36" bucket and a JD 450 dozer with a pin-on root rake delivered for me to go to work for a month.
So I thought I would share the endeavor with a few pics along the way.
Here is where we started...
September 2015
Taken a few months ago, but this is pretty much where it sits today:
September 2016
I still have some small trees to remove and stumps to dig (hence the first two weeks of the rental equipment)... but here is the overall plan:
The three red "X's" are low spots that the dirt has to get pushed too, I plan to dig the ponds as deep as I can with the excavator, so here is the question... Is this to ambitious to expect to do in basically two weeks with the excavator, dozer and backhoe?
We purchased almost 13 acres in North Florida about 18 months ago, when we bought the land we actually had no idea what it looked like as only 2 acres were cleared (where the house sat.. video link will provide all the needed "color" there)
https://youtu.be/7kOrRBwULoI
So over the course of the last 15 months we have been steady working at selectively clearing a little over 6.5 acres that will be cross fenced into 3 pastures.
I initially was going to have someone come in a dig the 3 small ponds we want (which primarily will be for livestock and controlling the water level), but every quote I got was ridiculously priced when coupled with the remaining clearing work I needed to have done.
I have run my fair share of heavy equipment over the years, and have access to a fairly decent size backhoe, but I knew that wasn't going to be all I needed for this project. So I made a few phone calls and as it turns out renting equipment wasn't as bad as I expected. So, in two weeks I will have a Bobcat e85 Excavator (basically a 9 ton machine) with a 24" and 36" bucket and a JD 450 dozer with a pin-on root rake delivered for me to go to work for a month.
So I thought I would share the endeavor with a few pics along the way.
Here is where we started...
September 2015
Taken a few months ago, but this is pretty much where it sits today:
September 2016
I still have some small trees to remove and stumps to dig (hence the first two weeks of the rental equipment)... but here is the overall plan:
The three red "X's" are low spots that the dirt has to get pushed too, I plan to dig the ponds as deep as I can with the excavator, so here is the question... Is this to ambitious to expect to do in basically two weeks with the excavator, dozer and backhoe?