subcontract 3.5 acres of mastication

[franks forestry]

i thought i would post to see if anyone would be interested in subcontracting 3.5 acres of mastication and some large slash piles near blackhawk colorado.no skidsteers with mulching heads are allowed.pm for more details if interested. sorry if this is the wrong forum for this post.

 

[Billy_Bob]

What is mastication?

I see that there is a masticator machine...
http://ceres.ca.gov/foreststeward/html/masticator.html

I suppose if you were masticating all day long, your arms would get to be quite tired? (From operating those levers and so forth of course...)

Seriously, what would you be doing with this mastication? Hauling it off or something?

 

[joesawer]

i thought i would post to see if anyone would be interested in subcontracting 3.5 acres of mastication and some large slash piles near blackhawk colorado.no skidsteers with mulching heads are allowed.pm for more details if interested. sorry if this is the wrong forum for this post.

Contact Justin here and see if his masticator is in CO.
http://cecillogging.com/

 

[056kid]

You want someone to chew 3.5 acres of timber?

Dang!

 

[Gypo Logger]

I'll do it for 35,000 sight unseen. I'll sub it out to 056 for 28,500 and he can chew it to chowder! Lol
Gypo

 

[056kid]

30 and we got a deal, let me go grab my masticatin sauce(texas pete & tabasco)


:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Gypo Logger]

30 and we got a deal, let me go grab my masticatin sauce(texas pete & tabasco)


:hmm3grin2orange:

Sounds good, when can you start? Will you take a cheque?
I can send down some big fat hungry Canadian beavers.
Gypo

 

[056kid]

Sounds good, when can you start? Will you take a cheque?
I can send down some big fat hungry Canadian beavers.
Gypo

No cheques, cheek will do though.
Long as them beavers arent tooo fat send em on down, i will get to chewin just after I recover..

 

[redprospector]

i thought i would post to see if anyone would be interested in subcontracting 3.5 acres of mastication and some large slash piles near blackhawk colorado.no skidsteers with mulching heads are allowed.pm for more details if interested. sorry if this is the wrong forum for this post.

I'm not in Colorado, but why are no "skidsteers" with mulching heads allowed?
By that you've really narrowed your options on just 3 1/2 acres.

Andy

 

[dancan]

Mastication

I think he wants something like this .

An excavator mounted mastication unit ,

 

[RVALUE]

Besides there was too little information given, to get an accurate bid, one would have to add some extra money for the lonely factor. After a hard day, one couldn't relax in the local watering hole for fear of the question asked by the pretty dame: What have you been doing all day?

 

[redprospector]

I think he wants something like this .

An excavator mounted mastication unit ,

Yeah, I figured that was what he was wanting. But on 3 1/2 acres the transportation costs might be as much as the "mastication" costs.

Andy

 

[Gypo Logger]

Wicked looking machine. I have never seen a hydro axe like that. I'm sure it would make the shrubery piss their roots!
Gypo

 

[franks forestry]

Thanks for the contact info Joe, unfortunately his machine is in California right now.

To answer the question about the skidsteer the job we are doing is for the forest service and they gave us the option to finish logging the last 3.5 acres or masticate. They feel the skidsteer leaves too big of chips. I know that definitely limits the options with only 3.5 acres but wanted to see if anyone knew of a machine that was in the local area.

 

[mile9socounty]

Masticators are a PITA to go in and clean up after. Then company I work for sub-contracted one out of Cottage Grove a couple years ago. The guy did decent work. Put us to shame. But the stuff that he couldn't get flush to the ground, reach or refused to go through. Well we had too. Turn's out he got fired from working for company after he decided to sink it through a bridge. Had it stuck without telling my boss for 3 days.

On a lighter note. Why not contract out to a thinning crew to come through and mulch the ever living hell out of everything. It would be cheap.

 

[madhatte]

Why masticate? Why not lop/scatter/crush?

 

[redprospector]

Thanks for the contact info Joe, unfortunately his machine is in California right now.

To answer the question about the skidsteer the job we are doing is for the forest service and they gave us the option to finish logging the last 3.5 acres or masticate. They feel the skidsteer leaves too big of chips. I know that definitely limits the options with only 3.5 acres but wanted to see if anyone knew of a machine that was in the local area.

The size of chips kinda depends on the operator, and how many times it's gone over. I know how it is, the FS pretty much tells you how they want it done. The FS loves the skidsteer mounted masticators around here. It's funny how they change from one area to another.

Andy

 

[franks forestry]

i wish they would talk to the foresters around here!.ive got my asv 100 on the job and a fecon head i could borrow but they wont let it fly.Seems like pretty much all the mastication for the fs around here requires hydro ax etc type of machine.