Serious equipment for serious work. A machine is only as honest as the person who maintains and runs it — here’s exactly what shows up when you hire Devore, and why it out-works anything you can rent for a weekend.
🚜 The Machine: CAT 299D3 with a Dedicated Forestry Mulcher
The 299D3 is CAT’s biggest compact track loader, running high-flow hydraulics into a dedicated forestry mulcher head. That combination is the whole ballgame: the head never starves for power, so it grinds 8-inch trees instead of bouncing off them, and wide tracks float it over soft ground and up Ohio Valley hillsides without tearing them up.
🛻 The Rig: Shows Up Anywhere in the Valley
A Ram 5500 flatbed and gooseneck trailer haul the machine to your property — farm lane, hillside drive, or back forty. No waiting on a rental yard’s delivery window: the whole operation rolls in together, goes to work, and leaves your drive clean.
⚖️ This vs. the Rental Yard
Could you rent a skid steer with a mulching attachment for a weekend? Sure. Here’s what that weekend actually looks like:
- Power: rental units are standard-flow machines with entry-level heads — they stall in exactly the thick stuff you rented them for. High-flow with a dedicated head is a different class of machine.
- Time: what this rig clears in an afternoon costs a rental weekend plus your whole weekend — and it’s still not done.
- Wear and knowledge: rental machines are run hard by a hundred strangers. This one has one owner who does the maintenance himself — often late at night after a job, so it never shows up dull or down.
- The operator: the machine doesn’t save your good trees, read the grade, or know where the fence wire is buried in the brush. The operator does.
- Total cost: rental + fuel + insurance waiver + your lost weekend usually costs more than hiring it done right at $250/hour.
🌾 The Operator: Dale Devore
Machines don’t clear land — operators do. Dale is a multi-generation Ohio farmer who’s run equipment his whole life, and it shows in the little things: keeper trees untouched with brush ground flush around them, hillsides finished without a washout scar, gates and wire found before they find the mulcher head. He’s the owner, the operator, and the mechanic — the operator you can trust on your land.
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