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Gordon G.....thanks for the pictures. Interesting....
Brush, what to do with it?
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Jinks myself by talking about the good gully. Storm last night smashed 100s of trees. Wind rotation, hail and torrential rain. Many damaged next to the house but no house damage. Spring/pump house and several out buildings not so well. Neighbors and friends helped me chainsaw a path to civilization. Then we helped them. Counting our blessings. Got months of cleanup. Lots of trees with widow-maker busted tops. Be one of 10-12 house size brush pile years. The M59 with grapples and wife on the B26 with grapples earned their keep today. Early bedtime tonight.
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Thank goodness you didn't have "house piles". It could have been worse. Stay safe. :drink:
I have 25 wooded acres here that we live on. Every year there are brush piled that build up from dead trees and selective pruning. I usually burn a couple days during burning season to keep the mess to a minimum.
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That much damage all at one time is hard. Gives you a kind of sick feeling when you look and take it all in. Glad you and the family are good. Working with friends and neighbors helps a lot. Stay safe working on all that clean-up.
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Glad your family is safe. Be careful with the widow makers.
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Gordon's got the forest stewardship award from me.
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I clear a lot of land, for me as well as for others.
My preferred method is to find a ravine and push the stumps and brush into, then regrade.
If I cannot do that, then it is burning it. Chipping just takes too much time, and fuel to get anything measurable out of. And digging a hole and burying it does not make much sense either as the size of the hole needed, and time it takes to dig the hole, is just way too much for how much has to be buried.
As for saving topsoil, which no one has talked about. Here in the north we got it made because we can pull the stump with an excavator, then let it sit over the winter. Frost will freeze the dirt, and let it unstick from the roots, then when you move the stump to burn it, all the dirt falls off and they burn cleaner.
On my own land, I do something a bit different because I have time and do not mind looking at the clearcut for awhile. I just wait for 5 years before clearing. That allows the stumps to rot down, so it takes half the time, and half the equipment size to clear the land. That is because in 5 years time, most of the stump is rotted because stumps rot from the ground up, and not the ground down. I am left with some saplings to clean up, but they are easy to push.
My preferred method is to find a ravine and push the stumps and brush into, then regrade.
If I cannot do that, then it is burning it. Chipping just takes too much time, and fuel to get anything measurable out of. And digging a hole and burying it does not make much sense either as the size of the hole needed, and time it takes to dig the hole, is just way too much for how much has to be buried.
As for saving topsoil, which no one has talked about. Here in the north we got it made because we can pull the stump with an excavator, then let it sit over the winter. Frost will freeze the dirt, and let it unstick from the roots, then when you move the stump to burn it, all the dirt falls off and they burn cleaner.
On my own land, I do something a bit different because I have time and do not mind looking at the clearcut for awhile. I just wait for 5 years before clearing. That allows the stumps to rot down, so it takes half the time, and half the equipment size to clear the land. That is because in 5 years time, most of the stump is rotted because stumps rot from the ground up, and not the ground down. I am left with some saplings to clean up, but they are easy to push.
Sorry to hear. As long as no one got hurt, the rest is (unfortunately) just more stuff to do. The never ending story, you get things the way you want, then Mother Nature comes in and changes all your plans :mur: