A lot of farmers have been asking me how much it will cost to use a bulldozer to clear a virging land, this thread is opened to give you answer from our own clearing experience. Getting a good bulldozer has been a tough nut for us here for some weeks now, but finally a bulldozer entered our newly acquired land at Babaeko village along igbeti-Ogbomoso road. I will be giving you daily update of our experience and expenses. More to come later in the day.

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All these pictures were taking yesterday on the site

Where's the COST

The low bed that brought the bulldozer

gergemam:
Where's the COST

the machine cost is 60k per day (8 hours)

I will be back with more pictures and details

Great job from a man of Vision, am following

hotmas911:
the machine cost is 60k per day (8 hours)

on the average, what is the number of acres it can clear within the 8 hours?

That is nice.

Firstman01:


on the average, what is the number of acres it can clear within the 8 hours?

it worked about 6 hours yesterday. But today will be full day. After today we will measure and see what the cost of clearing an acre is. Will soon be on the way to the farm now. The nairalanders coming are almost in Ogbomoso, I will take off as soon as they come.

Like how many acres can the buldozer clear within that 8 hours?

Cost and expenses so far:
Bulldozer hire for 10 days 600k
680 litres of diesle at #135 per litre 91,800
Cost of low bed trailer to and fro 100k
Operator 5k for 8 hours
Transportation of Diesle to farm 6500

Those are the ones I have on record for now. Will update when I'm back from farm today.

blessamo:
Great job from a man of Vision, am following

thanks bro

Firstman01:


on the average, what is the number of acres it can clear within the 8 hours?

we will have that fact today

finally! bulldozer don enter ogbomosho, parking my load and joining my main man hotmas911 in the ogbomosho life.

Good work.









Keep it rolling

hotmas911:
Cost and expenses so far:
Bulldozer hire for 10 days 600k
680 litres of diesle at #135 per litre 91,800
Cost of low bed trailer to and fro 100k
Operator 5k for 8 hours
Transportation of Diesle to farm 6500

Those are the ones I have on record for now. Will update when I'm back from farm today.

Great. This is the type of information we want to see.

I was asking on guy the same information a few days back and he was insulting me for asking.

@hotmas911 I can see your hand. I for come today but we went to another site in Ilorin here. running around to finalize the deal here. will still holla u wen we are done here

noblefarm:
@hotmas911 I can see your hand. I for come today but we went to another site in Ilorin here. running around to finalize the deal here. will still holla u wen we are done here

thanks bro. Any day I am all yours

jasper7:
finally! bulldozer don enter ogbomosho, parking my load and joining my main man hotmas911 in the ogbomosho life.

bro, if you see that side we used for the training you won't recognise it again

hotmas911:
bro, if you see that side we used for the training you won't recognise it again

wow! gimme 2 plots make I build small house make I pack my family come dia.

Guys. This bulldozer won kill me o. Its like we are using around 250 litres for 9 hours. I need to buy another 300 litres tomorrow because we are using the yellow gallons used for packing veg. Oil. We have 13 kegs altogether we have poured 11 today so we have 2 kegs left. I have 11 empty and that will take 300 litres.

These nairalanders came today to see the site. We drove round the over 12 km boundary. But it was fun as they entertained themselves with fresh cashew apples.

jasper7:

wow! gimme 2 plots make I build small house make I pack my family come dia.

we will discuss that when we see.

Cleared land!

Wow. Welcome sir. Eku ise

Wow, just seeing this now...this is great man (y)

This is what I'm talking about. Following closely.....

Weldone!