Two Acres of Vineyard Removal in Gingin
Took out roughly two acres of disused vineyard at Gingin and levelled the site off so the owner could put retic in and grass it over.
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The Job File
- Job type
- Vineyard removal, clearing and levelling
- Area
- Roughly two acres, Gingin
- For
- A private customer, not a company
- Machines
- Bobcat T590 track loader and a Komatsu PC55MR excavator
- The catch
- Decades of buried trellis wire through the ground
- Wanted for
- Reticulation and grass, a green paddock instead of dead vines
Roughly two acres of old vineyard coming out so the owner could lay retic and have a green paddock. The vines themselves are the easy part. What slows a vineyard removal down is the wire.
Two Acres of Vines Is Not the Problem
Taking vines out is quick. They are shallow-rooted, they come out easily, and a machine can move through a row at a decent rate.
The thing that decides how long a vineyard removal actually takes is everything that was holding the vines up. Trellis wire, staples, strainer posts, and whatever has been repaired and re-strung over the decades the block was planted.
Why Buried Wire Is the Real Hazard in Vineyard Removal
Trellis wire does not stay where it was put. Rows get re-strung, old wire gets dropped, ground gets worked, and over years it ends up threaded through the topsoil at every depth rather than sitting neatly along the rows.
That matters because of what wire does to a tracked machine. It does not break, it wraps. It winds into the track frame and around the idlers and sprockets, and it keeps winding until something has to come apart to get it out. On rubber tracks it can cut the track itself.
So the cost of missing wire is not a slower afternoon. It is a machine stopped on site and a repair bill, on a job that was quoted as clearing.
Wire Out With the Vines, Not After Them
The wire is easiest to deal with while it is still attached to what it was holding. Once the vines are heaped up and the ground has been worked over, the same wire is loose, buried and invisible.
Levelling for Retic and Grass, Not for Building
What the ground has to end up like depends entirely on what is going on it. This block was going to reticulation and grass, so the finish is about an even surface with no hollows to hold water and nothing left buried that will rot and settle.
That is a different finish from a block about to be built on, where the concern is bearing and compaction. Worth being clear about which one you are asking for.
How We Did It, Step By Step
The order matters more than the machine. This is how a job like this gets approached.
- 01
Walk the Rows and Find the Strainers
Strainer posts and end assemblies are where the heaviest wire is anchored. Knowing where they are before you start tells you where the worst of it will be.
- 02
Take the Vines and the Wire Together
Work along the rows so the wire comes out while it is still attached to something, rather than being dropped into the dirt to be found later.
- 03
Bulk Out With the T590
The track loader does the lifting and raking, moving the pulled material off the rows and into heaps at the boundary.
- 04
Roots and Heavy Work With the PC55MR
The excavator handles anything the loader cannot, including the deeper root material and the posts that do not want to come.
- 05
Rake Back and Pick Up What Surfaces
Working the ground over brings buried wire and timber up. That pass is the one that decides whether the owner finds wire with a whipper snipper in a year.
- 06
Level Off Ready for Retic
Final level with the PC55MR to an even surface, so reticulation can go in and grass can establish without hollows or soft spots.
Questions About Jobs Like This
It depends far more on the trellis than the vines. A block that was strung once and left is quick. A block that has been re-strung and repaired over decades has wire through the soil at every depth, and that is what sets the pace.
It gets heaped at a boundary as the work goes and dealt with from there. On this one the pulled material was windrowed at the fence line.
That is the point of the final level. The site gets finished to an even surface with the buried material out, which is what reticulation and grass need. Soil improvement is a separate question and depends on what is going in.
No. They come out either way. Live vines are slightly heavier to handle, that is all.
AI Overview
Old vineyard wire runs through the ground everywhere on a site like this, and wire is what wraps a set of tracks and stops a machine. Vines and roots excavated out, wire cleared with them, and the site levelled off ready for reticulation and grass.
Key Highlights
- About two acres of disused vineyard removed and levelled
- Bobcat T590 on the bulk work, Komatsu PC55MR on roots and final level
- Old trellis wire buried through the ground was the main hazard
- Wire worked out with the vines rather than left to find later
- Site levelled off ready for reticulation and grass
- Private customer, not a commercial site
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