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Old 04-19-2022, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SawyerHook View Post
Hello all...

I need to contract with an experienced and conscientious tracked skid steer operator for for approximately 680 hours of work. The contact will require a larger tracked skid steer with high flow hydraulics (for example the Kubota SVL97-2) to rum an FME disk mulcher (which I will supply) . The job is located 30 minutes NE of Valleyview and involves mulching ~ 680 acres of 2 to 4 inch poplar saplings.. PM me if you are interested or if you know someone who might be interested.

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Originally Posted by EZM View Post
There are sooooooo many factors that determine how many acres per hour either machine will do but we are 100% sure a commercial unit will do the job a multiple times faster compared to a skid steer unit.

We did roughly 40 acres with a skid steer/mulcher and it took 4 long hard days (10-12 hours) - ground was relatively flat, nothing bigger than the 3"-4" as mentioned and some thick and some sparse areas - so maybe an acre an hour might be roughly correct (my thoughts anyways).

The spring after we did a similar sized area, similar conditions and had a mulcher unit in and it was less than a full days work - maybe 5-6 hours if I recall correctly - so I'd say they are roughly 5-6 times faster????

Anyways - just my 2 cents.

Again, this was one specific job although I've used the skid steer units quite a bit. If most of it is small saplings and shrubs a skid steer can easily do an acre an hour. The key is to keep the drum from stalling on bigger stuff which slows you down. Also, if you have a dense area of even medium sized 2" stuff that's packed tight, that's also a pain in the butt without a big drum unit.
He stated above he estimated the job @ 1acre/hr
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