Clearing Old Cutover / 150 acres

[tonyoz]

Way to go Andy :thumbsup::thumbsup: Goes to show cheap is what birds do and cheap and quality can't be used in the same sentence. Did you use the 90 for the mulching?

 

[DIRTROAD]

There is a very big difference between wildfire and prescribed fire! It is important to know the difference.
I have a couple of videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9_aVAfh4k

 

[paulharvey]

The OP was making pasture, not peanut fields. If he has a scattering of 6" trees remaining that won't be a bad thing. Some standing dead wood wouldn't be the end of the world either. I'm just trying to find a Cheap way, but I would disk fire lines, burn, then disk the burnt areas, spread seed, and then drag it with an old log and chain. Total cost, maybe $10,000 ($8000 for an old 2WD large tractor and $2000 for a 8 ft disk). If he's unhappy with the remaining trees, cut them.


Edit: well, plus a couple grand in seed, fuel, fertilizer, ect

 

[crossroadsd]

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions.

Right now I am going to do some more research and see what is going to work best for me. I will let you know how it turns out.

 

[yellowdogsvc]

Hey Red, that work looked good.
We are using logs like that (not marketable for much) as erosion control and laying them on contour and either mulching behind them or piling mulch up against it.

When you burn, unless you are creating biochar, you are losing a lot of the good stuff to put back down. I realize not everyone can budget mulching but burning is becoming more and more taboo around here.

 

[yellowdogsvc]

Hey Red, that work looked good.
We are using logs like that (not marketable for much) as erosion control and laying them on contour and either mulching behind them or piling mulch up against it.

When you burn, unless you are creating biochar, you are losing a lot of the good stuff to put back down. I realize not everyone can budget mulching but burning is becoming more and more taboo around here.

 

[redprospector]

I'll tell ya what Red!! I wish our operator with that bron could make half of his work look like that!! Did ya haul the logs of for anything merchantable?

If he's really an operator he can. I'm going to have to make firewood out of the logs, won't be any profit in that though.

Way to go Andy :thumbsup::thumbsup: Goes to show cheap is what birds do and cheap and quality can't be used in the same sentence. Did you use the 90 for the mulching?

No, didn't use the 90 on that part. But that is where I blew the engine in the 90. Believe it or not, I did that with the T320 and Tushogg head. The 90's going back in there in the spring, when the snow's gone. The top of the hill in the pictures is 9300 ft. elevation.

Hey Red, that work looked good.
We are using logs like that (not marketable for much) as erosion control and laying them on contour and either mulching behind them or piling mulch up against it.

When you burn, unless you are creating biochar, you are losing a lot of the good stuff to put back down. I realize not everyone can budget mulching but burning is becoming more and more taboo around here.

Thanks, the land owner wants all the logs gone, the mulch holds pretty good as long as the slope isn't much steeper than what I'm on there. I wish I could leave a bunch of those sticks there, it's 45 minutes to pavement with a load, and then another 1 1/2 hours to my place on 6 to 9% grades.

 

[redprospector]

There is a very big difference between wildfire and prescribed fire! It is important to know the difference.
I have a couple of videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9_aVAfh4k

Believe me, I know the difference between a prescribed fire and a wild fire. If all the land owner is wanting to do is get rid of the under brush, a prescribed fire would probably do an acceptable job. If he's wanting to open the canopy and get some grass growing for a pasture, I think he's going to have to do some kind of mechanical treatment along with, or in place of burning. This is just my opinion, based on my experience. Things may be way different that far East of here.

 

[redprospector]

The OP was making pasture, not peanut fields. If he has a scattering of 6" trees remaining that won't be a bad thing. Some standing dead wood wouldn't be the end of the world either. I'm just trying to find a Cheap way, but I would disk fire lines, burn, then disk the burnt areas, spread seed, and then drag it with an old log and chain. Total cost, maybe $10,000 ($8000 for an old 2WD large tractor and $2000 for a 8 ft disk). If he's unhappy with the remaining trees, cut them.


Edit: well, plus a couple grand in seed, fuel, fertilizer, ect

Wow! You guy's get seed, fuel, fertilizer, and etc. a lot cheaper than we can out here. :laughing: I can barely drive over 150 acres for 2 grand in diesel. :laughing:
I'm not trying to start a pissing match...just showing a couple of pictures of one of the op's options.

 

[paulharvey]

Wow! You guy's get seed, fuel, fertilizer, and etc. a lot cheaper than we can out here. :laughing: I can barely drive over 150 acres for 2 grand in diesel. :laughing:
I'm not trying to start a pissing match...just showing a couple of pictures of one of the op's options.

Well it's an guess, we don't actually know much about his soil condition. The fire will jump start the existing grasses very quickly; or at least it does in Florida, where fires are just part of the early summer.