I have been scouring the forums avidly for the last several months & it has not yet completely deterred me from attempting to cut my teeth in the industry. I know how the search features work & that there are plenty of threads similar to this, but hopefully you all can answer my not so basic questions that I have.
I currently work offshore in the oil field and spend 21 days offshore and 21 days home... a lot of you are probably going to tell me that i'm better off just sticking to the oilfield, but with this last slowdown, I am really looking into different paths to take.
I was at a sustainable farming workshop recently and someone mentioned forestry mulching. This obviously piqued my interest since I am currently working on clearing out 10 acres of overgrown dense forest with several high dollar trees being crowded out by a lot of not so high dollar cheaper smaller trees and brush. after scouring the forums I came to the rather obvious conclusion that buying a CTL and a Fecon type head for it would be incredibly awesome, but not a good business model in itself by any means. The area I currently live in has a lot of expanding going on with nicer custom homes being built on lots that are mostly forgotten forest similar to mine so I was thinking a land clearing business could work to some extent. There are a couple of people doing it south of me and one quote for mulching/brush clearing was $60 an hour. most of these companies seem to be pretty diversified.
now, I still believe that I could get into this business in my time off if I developed a good relationship with a few custom contractors around here. The equipment I have been looking at would be a John Deere 333 with high flow or a kubota SLV-90 with high flow. John Deere has much better customer service in my opinion & I currently own a compact tractor from the same dealer. I am open to opinions, these are just the two closest options for me. I would also be looking into a Bradco Extreme Duty Ground Shark, a Grapple Bucket, one of the stump grapples (suggestions? experience?), & Possibly a Marshall saw.
I realize that the key to staying in business is to be as diverse as possible so I am asking for opinions on what attachments you would buy in addition to/instead of these. I also had High Tensile Fence installation in mind for another line of work.
I am aware of the need for a trailer & truck that can handle a CTL & that I will need to get a CDL.
so, do you all think this is feasible at all? anything else I should think of/consider? don't tell me to just hire someone else to do it because I plan on purchasing a large piece of land not too far down the road and clearing that out into pasture so there is no talking me out of this, but you can try!
thanks for putting up with another skid steer post, sorry for the redundancy. any advice is appreciated!
I currently work offshore in the oil field and spend 21 days offshore and 21 days home... a lot of you are probably going to tell me that i'm better off just sticking to the oilfield, but with this last slowdown, I am really looking into different paths to take.
I was at a sustainable farming workshop recently and someone mentioned forestry mulching. This obviously piqued my interest since I am currently working on clearing out 10 acres of overgrown dense forest with several high dollar trees being crowded out by a lot of not so high dollar cheaper smaller trees and brush. after scouring the forums I came to the rather obvious conclusion that buying a CTL and a Fecon type head for it would be incredibly awesome, but not a good business model in itself by any means. The area I currently live in has a lot of expanding going on with nicer custom homes being built on lots that are mostly forgotten forest similar to mine so I was thinking a land clearing business could work to some extent. There are a couple of people doing it south of me and one quote for mulching/brush clearing was $60 an hour. most of these companies seem to be pretty diversified.
now, I still believe that I could get into this business in my time off if I developed a good relationship with a few custom contractors around here. The equipment I have been looking at would be a John Deere 333 with high flow or a kubota SLV-90 with high flow. John Deere has much better customer service in my opinion & I currently own a compact tractor from the same dealer. I am open to opinions, these are just the two closest options for me. I would also be looking into a Bradco Extreme Duty Ground Shark, a Grapple Bucket, one of the stump grapples (suggestions? experience?), & Possibly a Marshall saw.
I realize that the key to staying in business is to be as diverse as possible so I am asking for opinions on what attachments you would buy in addition to/instead of these. I also had High Tensile Fence installation in mind for another line of work.
I am aware of the need for a trailer & truck that can handle a CTL & that I will need to get a CDL.
so, do you all think this is feasible at all? anything else I should think of/consider? don't tell me to just hire someone else to do it because I plan on purchasing a large piece of land not too far down the road and clearing that out into pasture so there is no talking me out of this, but you can try!
thanks for putting up with another skid steer post, sorry for the redundancy. any advice is appreciated!
not another "Skid Steer" post!!
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