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   / Dealing with pine trees
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#51  
Wow 1930, where's your rocks? I have more hardpan and red shale than good soil around our neck of the woods here in the northeast.
Nothing but sand, I cant tell you the last time I have seen a rock unless it was placed there by someone

why not just sell the land with trees and buy land with out trees?
Possibly unlike Montana no-ones giving away land here for cheap just to get people to move over. I need to work with the land I already own

Pool shock(high strength chlorine) works very fast.. drill 4 holes, and pour it in..
I may try this, can you tell me more.....drill 4 holes pour it in......thats it? Do I need to do this repeatedly?

a Cat D10 will take down any trees you want.. no need to worry about that!..
I cant even afford the Kubota without having to get financing, pretty sure cat 10 is not in the budget :)

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   / Dealing with pine trees
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post # 17 shows a stump grinder mounted on the rear of a tractor? I never knew such a thing existed and no-one told me this before that I can remember on any other forum?

Can I rent this? People keep saying get a stump grinder......I keep thinking how am I gonna drag a hand held stump grinder through 5 acres of sand?
 
   / Dealing with pine trees #53  
Nothing but sand, I cant tell you the last time I have seen a rock unless it was placed there by someone

Possibly unlike Montana no-ones giving away land here for cheap just to get people to move over. I need to work with the land I already own

I may try this, can you tell me more.....drill 4 holes pour it in......thats it? Do I need to do this repeatedly?
I would be hesitant to dump that much chlorine onto my land, especially as sandy as yours is; but that's just my opinion.

I cant even afford the Kubota without having to get financing, pretty sure cat 10 is not in the budget :)
It would have cost me about 2K for the excavator (with operator) for 2 days to clear 2 acres. Now it would probably be about $2500. I lucked out and they did it because I let them put a wood yard on my land. When they were done I had tillable ground, and the stumps are in 13 piles waiting for me to buy a grapple and dump truck so that I can move them to their final resting place, a stump dump which I can cover and plant raspberries.
He also moved the big rocks, but it looks like that's not a concern with you.

It sounds like you have time and a plan; it will take you a while anyways to cut those trees and dispose of them. As others have mentioned pine stumps will rot down quickly so if you wait even a year they will pull a lot easier.
 
   / Dealing with pine trees #54  
I have dug up a lot of pine trees with my B26. It does take a while for some of them with really deep tap roots. I set up and dig out on two sides, then reposition so I can dig out the other two sides. I use the hoe to test the stability of the tree when I start getting down to the bottom. When I can get it to start leaning in the direction I want it to fall, I start working on the other three sides till it gets loose enough that I can push it over with the hoe.
Sometimes the hole is pretty big when you are working on a large tree (20" or more at the base) but I just use the FEL to push the dirt back in and walk it in with the front tires. Usually I have enough dirt to completely fill the hole by scraping up the mounted dirt that is always around the larger trees.
 
   / Dealing with pine trees
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At the this point I would only have to deal with the trees that border the property I want these removed so I can put up my fence.

That will leave another maybe 100 trees plus and I'm starting to like the idea of leaving them to rot over the next few years.

I don't plan to start to consider building until Feb 2023 so I do have some time
 
   / Dealing with pine trees #56  
At the this point I would only have to deal with the trees that border the property I want these removed so I can put up my fence.

That will leave another maybe 100 trees plus and I'm starting to like the idea of leaving them to rot over the next few years.

I don't plan to start to consider building until Feb 2023 so I do have some time

So you have 5 acres right? and are going to build a house sometime in the future correct? Why do you want to remove ALL the trees? Why not leave some of them for shade, wildlife habitat or whatever? Yep, its your place and can do whatever you like, I'm just curious as to why.
 
   / Dealing with pine trees
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I don't like pine, I have other trees on the property that I am looking forward to keeping and am looking for ways to bring them back to a healthy state.

I don't like barren property. I want trees, just not the pine
 
   / Dealing with pine trees
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I keep reading posts about pushing pines over, here is another pict.

That's my saw with it's 22

No way is this gonna push over.

That's 4 ft down
 

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   / Dealing with pine trees #59  
I don't like pine, I have other trees on the property that I am looking forward to keeping and am looking for ways to bring them back to a healthy state.

I don't like barren property. I want trees, just not the pine

I like my pines, but then I keep cutting them down to run through my little sawmill! ;-)
 
   / Dealing with pine trees #60  
I keep reading posts about pushing pines over, here is another pict.

That's my saw with it's 22

No way is this gonna push over.

That's 4 ft down

Do you know what variety of pine you have, I've never seen one with a tap root like that.

And look at all that sand! That's all I have here too is sand and I'm in north central South Carolina! I did not know I was moving to the beach when I bought this place!
 

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