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10 Questions You Should Know about 18 Meters Long Reach ArmWhat can you do to the stump/root if you use the mulcher? We're doing this to a bunch of cedar on our place pretty soon and my dad and I have been discussing how to keep it maintained.

I'm not sure where you're located, but if that cedar is ashe juniper (very common in Texas) you don't have to worry about it growing back from the stump or roots after you mulch it down. I would say all cedar is like that, but I believe there is one variety to which that general rule does not apply.

OTOH, mesquite, honey locust and cedar elm will most definitely come back after mulching, especially the first two, which come back with a vengeance. I usually try to kill those before I mulch, if possible; otherwise, I'm very proactive manually spraying the regrowth before it gets out of hand.

Just for the record, I've hired in several different mulching companies over the past half-dozen years. You pretty much pay for horsepower, because that determines your production rate and the size (and type) of trees you can mulch.

Here's what I've paid in Central Texas:

100 horse Bobcat with hammers - $150.00/hour
120 horse ASV//Terex with knives - $250.00/hour
170 horse Lamtrac with knives - $310.00/hour
300 horse Blount Hydo Axe with hammers - $400.00/hour

The 300 horse machine really could produce. Very, very impressive. But, there is usually a separate delivery charge (over-sized load) and multi-day commitment to book one of those.

The (2) mid-sized machines, which used steel knives (as opposed to carbide hammers) did a fairly good job and were able to handle even larger trees, but they weren't anywhere near as fast as the 300 horse monster.

The Bobcat was obviously the slowest, and generally was limited to trees less than 8" in diameter, and to trees whose wood was relatively soft. But, it does a very economical job clearing cedars (ashe juniper), in that it can do them fairly quickly and cheaply. You wouldn't want to use it on bigger oaks, or ironwood or bois d'arc (osage orange).

Here's what I've found on all of them -- when they say it will clear "up to" xx acres per day, they mean up to. I've never gotten anywhere near what they say they can do, but that may be due to my stuff being complete clears of heavily forested areas. The 'up to' stuff is probably underbrush clearing and leaving the big trees around them alone.

One final caveat -- everything turns to sh&* if you get an inexperienced or lazy operator. That guy can waste a lot of high-dollar machine time and not get much done. OTOH, watching a guy who knows what he's doing is like watching Glen Campbell play the guitar.

I'm not sure where you're located, but if that cedar is ashe juniper (very common in Texas) you don't have to worry about it growing back from the stump or roots after you mulch it down. I would say all cedar is like that, but I believe there is one variety to which that general rule does not apply.OTOH, mesquite, honey locust and cedar elm will most definitely come back after mulching, especially the first two, which come back with a vengeance. I usually try to kill those before I mulch, if possible; otherwise, I'm very proactive manually spraying the regrowth before it gets out of hand.Just for the record, I've hired in several different mulching companies over the past half-dozen years. You pretty much pay for horsepower, because that determines your production rate and the size (and type) of trees you can mulch.Here's what I've paid in Central Texas:100 horse Bobcat with hammers - $150.00/hour120 horse ASV//Terex with knives - $250.00/hour170 horse Lamtrac with knives - $310.00/hour300 horse Blount Hydo Axe with hammers - $400.00/hourThe 300 horse machine really could produce. Very, very impressive. But, there is usually a separate delivery charge (over-sized load) and multi-day commitment to book one of those.The (2) mid-sized machines, which used steel knives (as opposed to carbide hammers) did a fairly good job and were able to handle even larger trees, but they weren't anywhere near as fast as the 300 horse monster.The Bobcat was obviously the slowest, and generally was limited to trees less than 8" in diameter, and to trees whose wood was relatively soft. But, it does a very economical job clearing cedars (ashe juniper), in that it can do them fairly quickly and cheaply. You wouldn't want to use it on bigger oaks, or ironwood or bois d'arc (osage orange).Here's what I've found on all of them -- when they say it will clearxx acres per day, they mean up to. I've never gotten anywhere near what they say they can do, but that may be due to my stuff being complete clears of heavily forested areas. The 'up to' stuff is probably underbrush clearing and leaving the big trees around them alone.One final caveat -- everything turns to sh&* if you get an inexperienced or lazy operator. That guy can waste a lot of high-dollar machine time and not get much done. OTOH, watching a guy who knows what he's doing is like watching Glen Campbell play the guitar.

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