bulldozer reschedule

Today I met with Enrique and Bob Shumacker, the bulldozer owner.  There was a miscommunication and the machine was not delivered to the property today.  Nevertheless it was a good day.  I got to meet bob's operator, an old hawaiian man named Danny.  We went over the work to be done and they agreed to do all that I expected that they would and said the machine would reach the property on Thursday or Friday.  When Bob and Danny left Enrique and I hung around and I told him a little about what we are planning for the property.  We figured out that a flail mulcher that Enrique owns might be the best option for clearing the top of the property which has a smaller draceana than the lower part.  We took a ride to California foliage growers facility and looked at their machines and operation.  We drove to fields in Pepeekeo and looked at rows that had been mulched and I thought that it looked great and very clean.  So after talking story for about 2 hours this is the plan that we came up with.

*The bulldozer will push/scrape the top 3 rows which are tall draceana cane to the Hilo side of the property and out of the way
*The next 30 rows are small draceana(minuta) and we will try to mulch them in place with a tractor and flail mulcher and save the organic matter for the koaia.  If the mulcher does not work well the bulldozer will push the plants to Hilo side of the property.  I have a good feeling about the tractor and flail working really well.
*All rows below row 33(about halfway down) are tall draceana cane and will be smashed in place with the bulldozer and left to decompose.
*An access road at the mauka Hilo corner will be opened through the sugar cane and leveled.
*A water diversion channel will be bulldozed through the burm that runs mauka to makai and splits the property, which in the future will be used to direct water away from Hakalau stream an toward a seasonal stream that is the property's Hilo boundary.
*The tractor and flail will arrive at the property sometimes before Friday pending some repairs.
*The forested areas of the property will not be bulldozed because they serve the purpose of erosion control and are stable in that they will not readily be invaded by weeds.  This allows us to deal with these areas at a slower pace and remove only what is necessary to accomplish our goals.
*Bob and Enrique will work out a price for the bulldozer which will be paid by Enrique.

If we use Enriques machine it will save him money on the bulldozer which is charged by the hour.  I also think that the mulch left on site will benefit the soil tremendously.  So even though plans have been set back a little, I see it as a win win situation.
For some clarification the area occupied by the top 33 horizontally arranged rows(about 9 acres)  will be used to grow ~2000 Koai'a, house a polynesian ethnobotanical garden, create habitat(koai'a) for other native species, and have land left open for short term agriculture or for future land use.

The land below row 33 that has been used for tall draceana(about 7 acres) will eventually be a grazed orchard.  The Draceanas on the below row 33 are quite large and will create a lot of mulch when smashed.  The planned land use determined the type of machine.  Smashing and leaving the plants in the orchard area is acceptable, but the upper portion needs to be more neat and level, so it needs to be mulched or scraped.  I feel that we have a plan that will use available resources efficiently and be in the best interests of all parties involved.