Best way to clear unwanted trees from pasture

[Ed27]

P.S. - Make sure you have a funnel with a long flexible spout, because the oil fill hole is behind the base of the FEL arm. Zip tying the funnel to the FEL arm is handy too, especially if you are pouring oil from a 2.5 gallon jug.

 

[jjp8182]

Sounds like you got luckier than I did ... I had one drain plug come of with the washer stuck to it, the other stuck to the oil pan until about half the oil had drain out before coming loose and falling into the pan of used oil. Fortunately I was using some deep cafeteria-style food warming pans as oil catch pans so it wasn't too hard to retrieve the washer.

 

[Tennsawdust]

Sounds like you are making good progress on the clearing. Those Bradford pear stumps should rot away pretty quickly.

 

[Ed27]

Sounds like you are making good progress on the clearing. Those Bradford pear stumps should rot away pretty quickly.

Thanks. From your lips to God's ear! We are cutting at ground level and painting all the stumps with Garlon 3A herbicide to keep them from growing back. We know the herbicide is good, but occasionally my wife and I will look at each other and say, "This stuff better work!"

 

[Ed27]

Before


After cutting down 571 Bradford Pear trees and stacking them in burn piles. Many, many more to go!

 

[Ponderwood]

I cut em off as close to the ground as I can, paint em orange, and when I have 20 -50 to do, got to the local rental place and get a grinder. They let me pick it up Friday at 330Pm and return it Monday at 8am, no hour meter so I pay for one day. ($300) It's a Vermeer that drives it's self and makes the work pretty easy. Saves me time and wear and tear on my equipment.

 

[searcyfarms]

an excavator and dozer with a good operator would have been done in a week with no stumps to deal with - btdt

 

[Ed27]

an excavator and dozer with a good operator would have been done in a week with no stumps to deal with - btdt

True, and also cost me a fortune and tear up my pasture.

 

[goeduck]

True, and also cost me a fortune and tear up my pasture.

Agree, you have done a nice job! And you have a NICE piece of property there :thumbsup:

 

[Ed27]

Agree, you have done a nice job! And you have a NICE piece of property there :thumbsup:

Thanks! The neighboring pastures look good, so I think this one will be nice too after some work.