Site Preparation

[leilaniguy]

Aloha adias, I believe at 300', you will need 2 poles. Cat drivers charge by the hour. The last time I hired a cat was 2 years ago, was charged I believe $175/hr., but that was then. Clearing for a driveway and small housesite usually takes anywhere from 2 to 5 days. A 100' drive in scrub on flat ground would be a few hours. But I will make a strong suggestion: If you clear your site and driveway too far ahead of construction you will have an ongoing problem with weed trees & shrubs that can seem to pop up overnight, grow like mad, and swallow all your hard work. They grow just great in just about anything you can put down. Unless you're staying on isle where you can mow/weedwhack/poison on a regular basis, or hire someone to do it for you, I would wait until 1-2 months or less before construction commences. I would also highly recommend you explore all over your land on foot before the dozer comes. You may have interesting plants, trees or features on your property you would want to preserve. I have at least a half dozen lava trees on my 1 acre place, the lady across the street fron me even has a cave. Also, tree ferns, smaller ohia's and many other things can be moved and replanted.



Edited by - leilaniguy on 12/04/2005 15:01:39

Edited by - leilaniguy on 12/21/2005 12:57:04