I just tore out an acre yesterday with the mini skid and a tooth bucket, 2.5 hours, pushed into a burn pile. Mostly buckthorn, honey suckle, and boxelder. Biggest boxelder was 4”ish. If they don’t push out clean you can beaver away with a tooth on the bucket.
It doesn’t take very long before nature takes over. I’ve got two harrow drags I found when I was clearing some of my land that used to be farm. So I put them off to the side and ten years later I have to cut them out of a walnut tree if I wanted to reuse them.
I had one very similar to this. My buddies cousin bought a 880 (because it’s the biggest) and thought it made him super logger. I have a pic somewhere of the ‘attempt’.
I just set a line and ripped it over but that’s the carved turkey stump.
I did. And I really like having a little less weight to the frame and have hung some pretty big wood off of the setup, three thousand easily with double whip and no movement on the trunk. Hanging the frame off of a small sling around the trunk is the ticket.
Some pics of GRCS hung wood...
$3600 plus $500 so $4100 + shipping or $2500? $2500 sounds like a steal to me. $2500 is one job. Just saying. If it were me I’d buy it. Hell you could buy it and flip it for a few hundred more.
2500 for the GRCS and drill is a very good price. I have a mini and GRCS, the mini is a daily driver and the GRCS sits most of the time but when it’s needed it is the most valuable tool to ever have existed.
It’s like anything when you read reviews. If there are 100 good reviews a one bad review IMO the common denominator wins.
Always try and make it right but at the same time charge for your time. If they want something that was outside your initial estimate or contract, they’re getting an up...