No snake bite kit will rid 40 acres of stumps. You did not specify what your intentions are once cleared off. Your future intentions affect how to take care of the stumps.
These are North Louisiana figures so adjust accordingly. If you want quick and easy, have them sheared and pile (big dozer and V blade followed by a root rake to windrow). If you intend to make pasture you will be filling in stump holes for the next 10 + years. The last 8 acres my grandfather cleared was done this way. Fill in holes as they appear and disk it up every 3-4 years, one day it will be done. If you plan to re-plant in pines this is ok and cost effective. In my area this is about $360/acre.
The ideal way is to have a trackhoe DIG them out then have dozer pile the stumps, tops, and limbs. Once burned it may require a smaller dozer to re-pile and burn again, then a smaller dozer to scatter and or bury the remains.
I took the trackhoe route. It cost me $80/hr each for 2 Case 750's and $80/hr for a JD 120 trackhoe. They cleared about 40 of my 50 acres for about $21,000. Now I have to burn the piles.
I built this to drag up the large trash and roots. I will follow up with JD offset disk to chop up the smaller trash and roots and level out the land as well as fill in low spots. Overall, it is going well.
I will post up dates as the weather allow me to continue.
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