How do I go about this job?

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since it seems you are just wanting a view and not to sanitze the area i would do selective pruning. set something on top that you can see very easy (white bucket on a stick maybe) then go to the falls and gut your way up. I have found that sometimes you only need to remove a few branches to have a clear view. A series of small brush piles right next to the base of the hill will be invisible from the top if you leave the plants on the hill just above the pile. These piles make excelent habitats for birds and bunnys. You could always try this and if you dont like the piles either burn them in winter or figure out some sort of costly contraption to haul them up the hill. If your thinking of some sort of winching devise and have a tractor then the answer is there, chain up the brush and pull it up. make sure you really block the wheels of your tractor it would not be to rustic looking down in that valley,lol.

 

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Here's an idea for moving stuff up a hill...

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I have a small property overlooking a gorgeous waterfall in NC. The home site sits well above these falls, and the slope down to the falls is too steep to walk comfortably, and it is covered with rhododendron which I want to clean out to enhance the views.

So I am thinking some kind of winch...it is conceivable that I could go down there with a chainsaw, tie a bunch of sticks to a rope and winch it up...or rig some pulleys onto trees...I dont know, just looking for ideas.

I was thinking of buying a winch and mounting it to the reese hitch of my pickup...check out the pic, thats the falls going over a rock, and you can see its near vertical, cant get a tractor in there.

I love my Stihl Chainsaw the Combi System. I bought an extender and I think you might even be able to buy 2 extenders, it is like a pole saw but at the end is a chain saw. I also did not see any water in your pic, i tried hard but didn't see it.

Instead of completely cutting out the bushes perhaps you can jsut cust them down to a coupe feet tall. They will still hold onto the dirt and it will take a while for them to grow back up tall again.

I ahve hours and hours and hours of experience hauling brush and our ost trusted tool is a tarp. I bought the 17oz tarp form Cover Me Tarps and Canopies and man are they heavy. I bought the 7ft x 20ft tarp it weighs 18lbs, it is very very heavy duty, and their shipping costs were very reaasonable. I bought about 60lbs worth of tarps and the shipping was I think $28.

When you try to haul brush through brush it snags. If you wrap up the brush in a tarp you can drag it over rocks other bushes etc. We prunned rows upon rows of olive trees with the branches and limbs laying int he center between the rows chest high. The only way we are able to work effectively is with tarps.

If you can get to the bottom of the waterfall then my thought would be to work form the bottom up and tarp the stuff out of the area. You can fit a lot of branches on a tarp. My hsuband jsut uses the lopers and anything he can lop off goes on the tarp. By the time he is done lopping what reamins is a fairly good sized limb with the smaller branches lopped off. We throw those in a pile and collect them at the end, and jsut focus on getting the lopped off branches out of the area we are clearing.