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So many threads about railroad ties. Weather it be installation or disposal, there are none on removal.

What is the ways to remove rairoad ties? Some are burried 1 layer, some layer above ground with none below them.

For me, this is giving me a :hammerhead: :hammerhead: :hammerhead: :hammerhead:
ANY help is appreciated.
 
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yep. Thats' what I thought. Use an excavator/backhoe. I don't think the owner wants equipment on property by the way he was talking.
 
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I have use a chainsaw and cut them in 2 foot sections so that they fit in wheel barrow and run them to the trailer. It is easier than to move an 8 foot section. especially if you are working by yourself. Personally I will usually turn down these types of jobs unless they are for my good customers.
 
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Rent a mini loader...dingo, boxer, or whatever and get a set of forks for it. You can go right up the the cross ties and slide the forks underthem and lift it right up. Unless they are really stuck then it may take a little diggind to loosen them but you get the idea. And if you get a machine on tracks and put ply wood down you would not leave any tracks.
 
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heres' what I am thinking now. Rent a track excavator, dig the ties that are in the ground. The ties ablove ground, take a chainsaw and cut them in 2' sections. I am planning on hauling them off.

What is a 4 in 1 bucket? Any pics?
 
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Get a small excavator with a hydraulic thumb. If you are bringing a machine in you could likely get the truck(Assuming you have a dump) into the work area with no additonal area of disturbance, and never lay a hand on them, at least not until clean up. However you did not mention the size of the wall to be removed, is all this talk of machines overkill?
 
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Yeah what size is the wall? I would use a mini-ex like a CAT 304 sized machine with a thumb and a 1 ton dump.
 
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I had a customer 2 weeks ago that i was building a wall in his back yard. He did not want me dumping gravel in driveway and using bobcat to bucket to back yard. Needed 20 ton of gravel in back yard and he was worried about all the trips over his grass. I told him he could not have a wall with out some of a mess that we would fix. Finally he agreed we could fit a 1 ton hauling 4 ton at a time instead of a tri axle delivering to me , he would pay the extra trucking cost. We could barely fit the 1 ton around to his back yard but did.
Mike
 
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Mike 33


if you have the equipment to load the gravel on your one-ton, consider having a tractor-trailer load delivered. 20-23 ton one trip. Then load the one ton and carry to the on site destination. If your truck is in good shape and the ground is even then you can load it a little heavier on site. The ratings on these truck include consideration for braking at 55+mph you can stay under 10 on site. or if conditions do not permit then haul 2 1/2-3 tons per trip across the lawn it will be much faster.
 
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No, what really happened was i could get a tandem in to the drive way hauling 20-23 ton, tr. tr. would not of fit. I wanted to dump on driveway and bobcat the stone 75 yards down to wall project. There was only 1 way to go with it access wise. Customer come un glued and didnt want the grass messed up from all of those bobcat trips and the usual spiiling stone. We were able to fit a 1 ton off of driveway to wall site and then dump. But i told my customer he would have to pay all of those extra trucking fees . There wasent a place even close by to swap loads either that would of been practible. Customer agreed to pay an extra 3-4 trips of trucking job went well and he was very happy. He even thanked me for being considerate of his lawn, i thought he was going to be apita but he was super. Elements of business! Go the extra mile makes a good pay day.
Mike
 
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