Extreme trail blazing

[txdon]

While waiting flowers to go to seed before I mow, I find the need to blaze a trail through the woods. I thought this would be the coolest work but I didn't anticipate the brush keeping the motor heat in my work area. Too darn hot in July in Texas, but I am having fun.

Mandatory equipment: FEL with Tooth bar and tractor brush guard
Optional equipment: BH

The prevailing trees are Post oak, Cedar, Hickory and Blackjack oak. The brush is youpon and American beauty bush. Soil is sugar sand.

 

[txdon]

Watch out for falling dead limbs!

 

[txdon]

Toothing a youpon.

 

[txdon]

Toothing a Cedar tree.

 

[txdon]

Optional BH makes quick work of those old dead tree stumps.

 

[riptides]

Serious work!

Be carefull, of the heat. <-----

I gave up for a few weeks... and the family wants more!


-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Degree]

Be careful of the limbs and thorns blowing a hydraulic hose. Dont get slapped in the face by a branch you didnt tear down either.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Don I clear alot of land for folks with an old backhoe and my little excavator fun ain it. Watch those old thick grapevines though i hd one almost warp me once. I had hung it on the outrigger and when i was pushin my pile to the burning pile it came loose about 40 feet away. One thing i like about having a thumb is you can gather your material up in wads then place it in piles. We have a bunch of out of control privett hedges here i take out every year.Take care Taylor Lambert

 

[txdon]

Degree, yep got slapped in the face a couple of times, I carry a limb cutter with me an cut the small ones so they only slap me once.

Fireshawn, I hate to disappoint you but the fact is that I knocked down that little cedar tree so I could go around it's big mother tree. If you are allergic to the cedars you can probably blame my woods I have thousands. I like their green in the winter and their blue berries.

Taylor, I know what you mean about those grapevines. When I'm in the woods and pulling grapevines I just hope I don't pull a limb on myself. Hopefully the metal canopy will keep the sun and limbs off my head. pushing the brush is fun, I almost feel like a little bulldozer. I am always amazed how good the forest looks once you can see the trees.

 

[engineer]

I always enjoy Clearing and opening trials on the family property. However, this past spring we needed approximately 10 acres of hedgerow and trails cleaned up to facilitate the installation of a haul road for logging purposes. 10 acres is far more than my father and I wished to pursue with the BX2200. So we ratched up the trial blazing efforts and hired a Brontosaurus to do the clearing. ~10 acres of clearing in ~33 hours of operation time. Take a look. 10" DBH softwoods and 8" DBH hardwoods didn't have a chance. Nothing but stump right at grade and whole lot of chippings and mulch.

engineer

 

[knucklehead]

You may wanna make sure you leave those smooth ones with no branches, and the black "vines" running from tree to tree, like just to the right of the bucket in your picture.

Some folks get excited when you knock 'em down. They even put anchor wires on 'em to make it harder.