Best way to clear unwanted trees from pasture
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I'm not sure if I'm more impressed that you have cut so many, or that you counted them!
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Ed27
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Lol, my wife is the counter, but her counting method is bad! If a mature Bradford Pear tree has never been bush hogged when it was small, it will have a single trunk in the ground. If a BP tree was previously bush hogged when it was little and now it looks like one large mature tree, it is actually 5-10 trunks that resprouted from roots in one spot and looks like a single tree. My wife says, if it looks like a single tree, I count it as one. I say, what the heck, I just sawed through 5 things! Nope, that's one. So, we have cut 571 BP trees by that counting method. We don't bushhog ANY of them. We saw down trees that are 6' tall with a 1" trunk, to the biggest ones that are about 40' tall with a 12" trunk (which is at max capacity for the saw. We have also cut many, many other trees, but have not counted them - mainly 1-2" diameter oak trees growing near water sources. The majority of trees, however, are those darn BP trees!
Thats a nice looking lot even with the trees on it. I hope your planing on leaving some?
Get oil by the 5gal bucket. Its only a mattet of time before you need to change the oil again. Also if i have a piece of equipment that takes the same oil filter as another i just buy a case, 12.
Get oil by the 5gal bucket. Its only a mattet of time before you need to change the oil again. Also if i have a piece of equipment that takes the same oil filter as another i just buy a case, 12.
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Ed27
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If you look at the after picture in post #185 you will see a large stand (about 15 acres) of mature tress in the 1:00 o'clock position in the photo. Those mature trees (not Bradford Pears) have never been touched and they will all stay - these trees are in a big triangle with a road one one side and two creeks on the other two sides. The trees in the pasture are Bradford Pears and all must go!
Ed27, Can you take a couple pictures of the 'stump' left behind after cutting the tree, or after re-cutting it lower (if you are)? How does it feel when you drive over them with your tractor afterwards?
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Ed27
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When I'm out there this weekend I'll try to remember to get a picture. If you walked on the cut stumps with your eyes closed you would not know it. The stumps are literally at or slightly below ground level. The saw blade is resting on the dirt when it is cutting the tree.
jjp8182
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Definitely some impressive progress, made even more so given the method of counting and the size of the largest Bradfords being removed.
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Ed27
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Thanks! My wife and I both work full time, so it will still be awhile until we are done. Unfortunately, the part you cannot see in the photos, the part of the property that extends past the bottom of the photo, is where the trees are the densest!
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