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CEE Custom Services: Land Clearing & Severe Duty Tillage

CEE offers the custom services of complete land clearing and severe duty tillage utilizing the equipment developed and used in our own farming operation.  The wheel loader is our choice of equipment for clearing land. We’ve utilized track machines and found them to be slower, more difficult to transport from site to site and higher in  maintenance. The main advantage they offer is traction in adverse conditions, which directly correlate to poor land clearing conditions and dramatically increased costs. We utilize a large 30 ton machine with different attachments for optimal productivity in varying conditions to tackle and complete large jobs when conditions are favorable. 

The same equipment utilized for land clearing is directly applicable to severe duty tillage. In the past we purchased a new subsoiler for custom tillage work, which only survived 3 years. We then built a ripper able to withstand the harsh rocky conditions of this area.  We utilize this equipment for custom tillage or offer it as a rental unit for those preferring to provide their own tractor and operator.

 

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  • Land Clearing:
    • Complete Clearing of Large Acreage…Removal Above & Below Surface
      -  Removed: trees  -  stumps  -  roots  -  brush
      -  Brought to surface: boulders  -  rocks  -  roots
      -  Material raked/windrowed/stockpiled
      -  Wood: process wood…harvest lumber/fire wood...chip roots/brush/branches...burn stockpiles
      Benefits:
      1. Load/transport material off-site
      2. Hedge Rows Removed – increased productivity & profits:
        1. Increase productivity by reducing number of headlands
        2. Less time spent turning around… applies to tillage – planting – harvesting
        3. Less traffic – less compaction – higher yields
        4. Reduced fuel consumption
        5. Increased acreage – over years hedgerows can easily become 50 to 90 ft wide (75 ft x 2,000 ft=3.4 acres)
    • Clean Removal
      • Separation of soil from material…  all soil remains on site
      • Ripper & rakes break-up sod – even in heavy clay soils
      • Soil passes thru shanks as material raked
      • Material grappled & lifted for transport/stockpiling/loading no topsoil scraped into windrows/stockpiles as in dozing material along surface
      • Capable of complete burn-down by end of clearing process
        • Brush/tree piles free of topsoil material loaded onto top of burn pile
        • Green wood dried periodically stoke fire w/ grapple rake
        • Unburned material separated from subsoil remaining on tree roots material piles screened for complete separation of fines/soil from larger objects
        • No stockpiles to work around stone piles screened to remove all topsoil
        • Topsoil remains in field maximizing yields
    • Quick Process…Utilize Large Articulated Wheel Loader
      • Heavy operating weight
      • Large break-out force
      • Large load carrying capacity
      • Fast shuttle speed & highly maneuverable
      • High dump clearance
      • Wide Attachments wide paths cleared/raked
      • Large quantities grappled                 
  • Land Clearing - Equipment
    • Articulated Wheel Loader – Terex 7261
      • 30 ton machine
      • 75,000  lbs breakout force
      • 31,000  lbs lift capacity
      • Quick Coupler 
    • Wheel Loader Attachments
      • Severe Duty Duplex Grapple Ripper
      • HD Duplex Grapple Rake
      • Severe Duty Ripper – 2 Shank
      • 5.5 yd Spade Nose Bucket 
    • 90 hp Skid Steer – John Deere 280
      • Roll’n Rock Screening Bucket
      • Rock Bucket 
      • GP Bucket 
    • Severe Duty Trailer Ripper 
    • 6x6 Dump Truck – FWD
      • 24,000 front axle w/ 445/65-R22.5 Floaters
      • 44,000 rears w/ 12.00R20 Tires
      • 14 ft Steel Dump Box – Rock Body

 

  • Severe Duty Tillage — deep tillage 18 – 24 in depth penetrate hard ground
      • tilling recently cleared ground
      • bring-up roots, rocks & boulders for sub-surface land clearing
      • fracturing of subsoil
      • break-up hard-pan up to 30” deep
      • increase water intake & reduce run-off
        • retain more moisture for roots/plant growth

                     

  • RENTALS — Specialty Equipment for Severe Duty Tillage & Land Clearing
    Severe Duty Trailer Ripper
    • Multi-Shank Unit – Virtually Indestructible
      >10,000 lbs operating weight
      425/65-R22.5 Floaters
      30”  max penetration
      43”  shank spacing
      15° shank swivel – each side of center
      18”  beam clearance – full penetration
      15” axle clearance
      3”   shank – thickness
      10.25” shank – width
      60”  shank - length

 

 

 
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