Gary Fowler
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2008
- Messages
- 11,998
- Location
- Bismarck Arkansas
- Tractor
- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
Blackberry bushes are no match for a bushhog, just back into them and shred them up. Then you can rake up the stems and burn them. They will come back but yearly mowing will eventually do away with them. I had some patches or blackberry and worse, saw vines (those just keep coming back as they have huge root balls under ground which have to be dug out ) on my place when I bought it along with sweet gum trees so thick that you couldn't walk in the thicket. I did away with a lot of it with the 6 foot lightweight Howse bush hog and my first tractor, a Yanmar 4220D. I would push over anything that the tractor with FEL could ride down and then chop it with the mower. After I got my B26, I was able to go in and selectively harvest the remaining trees that thinned it out so now it looks like a park. The area in the photos was so choked with overgrowth by the creek that I barely had room to run my tractor down between it and the fence.