Tractor, crawler, or ? for work in mountains

Thanks again for all the responses.

I am laid up after a hernia surgery so I have time to sit at the keyboard here. Part of my interest in finding the right machine is so I don't beat myself up so bad hand-moving rocks and trees that weigh way more than myself.

My wife is pretty much taking over the machine search - she knows more about this stuff than I do. (This is something I am actually proud to admit!) Ed - the traxcivator looks pretty interesting. Thanks.

Bill Chasser - Thanks for the heads -up on the quick unpredictable "getting sideways" behavior on steep, jumbly rock. This is something I would not have been aware of had I started out "blind" but it makes perfect sense - smooth steel tread on hard, uneven rock on a slope. Would rubber cleats help here? Do they hold up at all? Also, you mention something called LPG tracks as something to stay away from. I am not sure what these are - are these where there is some kind of drive sprocket up high that the treads go around?

Operating in the winter on ice brings up another host of issues, I suspect.

As for the sparks starting a fire - again thanks for the heads up. It gets pretty dry out here and the past couple of years have been particularly bad, with the limited rain and all the beetle kill. Best approach I have had to this is to not do anything that can start a fire - no barbeques, no wood stove even on chilly evenings during the "fire season," no welding or torch work, and no running machinery unless I am sure it isn't going to spark out the tailpipe or anywhere else.

On the subject of sparks / fires - it is surprising how much sparking is generated by striking a shovel or pick against a rock. Best way to see this is at night - just start driving a pick into dry, rocky soil and watch the light show. (I often have jobs that run into the night, I just keep going until they are done.) The answer here is to keep an indian pump around and use it to thoroughly wet down the soil around the work area, and keep it wet. In fact, pre-wetting a work area before any potentially spark generating operation is a good idea. And to belabor the fire avoidince even further - we don't even think about running anything when it is windy during the hot season.

Of course, none of this means anything if your neighbor sets the woods on fire while lighting up a roach.

Ronm, yes that is the one. I had seen it for years and pretty much ignored it. About the time I got interested in it, it disappeared. Oh, well...

NDmeterman, I think Boulder may have blown it there. Bit off way more than they can chew. Perhaps the whole thing is a "smoke-induced" pipe dream (read between the lines here). Somewhere I heard that the Xcel plant here in Boulder is one of the cleanest coal plants in the country but that apparently isn't good enough. Perhaps someone can engineer a plant that generates electricity from prairie dog farts especially for Boulder.

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