How Do You Clean Up A Yard? Interesting Post!

[ozzy42]

Well, I like the mental image, but oh, man! N.O.W. is gonna hang you for that! :jawdrop:




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I don't see the bid deal.
She looks as though she could get a lot of stuff to the truck in an 8hr day.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

I am glad someone finally cleared that up. I have been using the wench, sorry.

Uh... Uh...

Oh, I don't think we want to go there!

 

[fishercat]

the tractor and grapple are priceless.

not sure how i made it without them.i turn the york rake around backwards and push it in reverse.works awesome on pine jobs.wide pithfork,rakes,and the Husqvarna BT 180.

 

[prentice110]

I'm interested to know how you clean up yards on your smaller residential tree jobs?

Many yards I'm in don't fair well with front end loaders like without larger machinery. Keep this in mind.

Here are some things I'm interested to know how you do it:

1.) How do you clean up and haul the stump mulch to the truck?

2.) How do you clean up the smaller leaves, sticks and debris from the yard?

3.) How do you haul the logs out to the truck?

4.) How do you haul the brush to the chipper?
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1. mini skid with bucket. if this wont fit throw em' in a garbage can and put it on the log cart. 2. Rakes and tarps and garbage can again. I will at this point add that if you can find a plastic 55 gallon drum and cut it in half and cut some handles or drill some holes and tie a rope to it for a handle, you may like it better than a garbage can. I know I do. I always tell the guys to start raking at the back of the yard toward where ever the debris is being loaded/chipped. I cant stand watching greenhorns start raking at the front or middle. I say, "what are you retarded or something, more crap is going to fall there and your going to end up raking the same spot 3-4 times. Always start at the back, I cannot express that enough. Rake until there is to much and then put the pile on a tarp. 3.Logs go out by hand, on a log cart, or, if there is enough room, on the mini Bob. When I get my branch manager grapple (soon I hope) all logs will go out that way, and I may stop bidding jobs that I cant use it on. 4. By hand if its in the way and i dont have room for the mini. Also will cut small and stack on the log cart if its a long drag, have had little brackets welded on to put stakes on the log cart so the brush gets stacked nice and tall. Saves trips and backs. If your working in a nice open yard, the mini will push large LEADS to the curb if you dont try to lift them too high. So whatya think of that?

 

[arborworks1]

I use the mini whenever I can. I have used the speed line method alot. More or less a load line to move wood and brush up hills. Very fast and super easy.

 

[DirtyDog]

This is gonna sound pretty far fetched, but I have found that a wet/dry vac is awesome for getting every little chip off the grass. I blow most of it into a pile and use a shovel to get what i can. Then i vacuum the rest up with my wet/dry 6hp vac. You will look pretty silly vacuuming up the grass, but it works really well.
I wouldn't do that for the entire yard, but if you get most in one area. That works well as long as you have a generator or wall plug within a reasonable distance.

As far as moving logs, i use a smaller lawn tractor that i welded up a hitch onto it. I pull a long but narrow cart(fits in gates) to move from backyard to truck. Or, we use a heavy duty 2 wheel wheelbarrow good for 1200lbs.
As far as brush, I like to lay out a piece of rope and start piling the brush ontop of it. When the pile gets waist high, I wrap the rope around and tie it off. The I tie another rope at the base of bottom ones(try to get behicd a crotch) and I tie the rope to ball of the mower and pull it to the truck. Works well for the most part as long s the bottom braches aren't poking into the ground. I have though about putting a tie point higher up on the tractor so it "lifts" the front of the pile up.

We are a 2 man team for the most part and we don't have the ability to carry large machines around. We work together and do lots of smaller jobs so the less we have to haul, the more money we make.
The kubota and skidsteers stay in the driveway unless we have a commercial job or a residentil lot clearing.

 

[oldirty]

tarps suck. big green landscaping barrels much better for everything tarp related.

when it come to brush make sure whoever is running the saw isnt cutting too much. i hate when the guys i work with make way too many cuts on a branch that is getting chipped, its more work. but they are boneheads who should know better but dont.

take the biggest branch and stack on top of that. then drag that whole mess out. fewer trips to the chipper that way.

for cleanup rakes first then the blower to get the lawn spotless.

we need a mini. ive humped way too much wood at the company i am at now.

 

[prentice110]

I almost forgot, If you wanna go real fast with brush, use a 4 wheeler. TARPS ROCK!

 

[woodchux]

Anyone tried the 'bagster' yet? http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200381470_200381470

 

[oldirty]

TARPS ROCK!

no thanks.

 

[prentice110]

no thanks.

may i inquire as to why you feel this way?

 

[oldirty]

i'd rather hump the barrel up onto my shoulder and then toss it into the back of the truck than drag a tarp and then handle the crap again trying to get it into the truck.

make a big draggable pile with the limbs and get them to the chipper then the rake makes piles that can be manhandled. then when it come to the small stuff......bang.....into the barrel and into the chip truck she go!


i just dont like tarps, it reminds me of fall cleanups and landscapers.

 

[prentice110]

ahh,its hard for me to remember those days. We just toss it onto the street so we can pick it up with the clam. We brush load with a Hood loader and tub grind. Only chip when we have to. Too hard to get rid of chips around here, but big market for mulch. I like tarps cuz you can fold em' real tight and put em' behind the seat. Bring a big bucket and one day you just might have to come back for one more log, or the bucket....

 

[Tree Pig]

i'd rather hump the barrel up onto my shoulder and then toss it into the back of the truck than drag a tarp and then handle the crap again trying to get it into the truck.

make a big draggable pile with the limbs and get them to the chipper then the rake makes piles that can be manhandled. then when it come to the small stuff......bang.....into the barrel and into the chip truck she go!


i just dont like tarps, it reminds me of fall cleanups and landscapers.

I think Old Dirty may suffer from a common affliction amongst the Tree work community Terra Laboro Phobias (latin for the fear of landscapers)
I seldom go near them myself. There should be a support group.

 

[Tree Pig]

ahh,its hard for me to remember those days. We just toss it onto the street so we can pick it up with the clam. We brush load with a Hood loader and tub grind. Only chip when we have to. Too hard to get rid of chips around here, but big market for mulch. I like tarps cuz you can fold em' real tight and put em' behind the seat. Bring a big bucket and one day you just might have to come back for one more log, or the bucket....

Put the log in the bucket... Problem solved These puzzles are easy

 

[prentice110]

Put the log in the bucket... Problem solved These puzzles are easy

Please dont shatter my fragile little microcosm, its all I have.

 

[Tree Pig]

Please dont shatter my fragile little microcosm, its all I have.

Just goes to show you there is some truth to the saying. Ask three Tree guys how to due a job and you'll get 4 different answers.

 

[oldirty]

I think Old Dirty may suffer from a common affliction amongst the Tree work community Terra Laboro Phobias (latin for the fear of landscapers)
I seldom go near them myself. There should be a support group.

PITA landscapers are. always in the way. about 9 mexicans stacked deep into a single cab. nary a word of english spoken except for "no speak". every bush in the yard is shaped like a ball after they leave.

landscaping sucks. i ran a weedwacker for a summer before i found tree work. you can have the **** man.

 

[DirtyDog]

Anyone tried the 'bagster' yet? http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200381470_200381470

LMAO..aaahahahahaaaaa Looking at that picture... What could possibly be going through their minds for adverstisement reasons??? You have a guy which appears to be a consruction worker or 'weekend warrior", throwing sinks, doors, scrap wood..etc into this bag in the driveway. Ummm, Okay, now what?? WTF wcould you possibly do with a bag full of all that stuff? You certainly couldn't pick it up by hand. Are those yellow ropes on the side the handles? maybe a bucket loader could pick it up by them, but then if you have a bucket loader you wouldn't need a dumb bag in the first place.
The only thing I can see that being pretty handy and useful for....Leaves! However, your still gonna have to dump it. Branches, logs...No way in hell. Looks like a complete hassle

 

[prentice110]

Just goes to show you there is some truth to the saying. Ask three Tree guys how to due a job and you'll get 4 different answers.

I think I was about 20 when I said that there were as many ways to cut down a tree as there were people doing it. Came to the conclusion early on that the reason that there were so many tree companies, was because no body agreed on how it should be done, so sooner or later all your best guys qiut and start there own.