OK Land Cleaners, gotta question for you

[rutwad]

My neighbor has a few acres of planted pines in front of his house. Somebody came in with a mulcher and thinned them quite a bit, but they did little mulching. So with the stumps and many larger pieces of trees left, he had someone come in to uproot stumps, then pile and burn everything. This helped alot, but my neighbor is wanting this area to look like a golf course, except for the few remaining pines.

There are alot of sticks from 7"'s up to 4'. Diameter ranges from 1" to 6". What is the best way to gather these sticks. Picking them up by hand will certainly work, if you could spare a couple years of your life to it. What would be the most effecient way to do this?

Thanks!

 

[mikim]

my neighbor is wanting this area to look like a golf course
What would be the most effecient way to do this?

move into town?

 

[LBrown59]

Any other ideas?

 

[Landwise]

Landscape rake or a root rake on a skid steer. Or a dozer, screener and a loader + dump truck

 

[Robbie Hegwood]

This one is easy. Hire a mulcher running a DENIS CIMAF and mulch what is left, then backdrag it again. Then for fun to it one last time. By now you should have a very fine mulch that will decay fast and give him a good planting base. It isn't the fastest but would be the cheapest and should get the end result.
The only other option is for lack of a better term a subsoiler. It tills/mulches together to blend the mulch into the ground, deep into the ground. I have never seen one in action just know they are big, pto driven and require big h.p. 150 and up in a farm tractor. I only know of one running here in Ga.

 

[cbturf]

Should have done it right to begin with. If your neighbor had hired a good contractor to begin with he would have gotten good results the first time. Cheaspest thing to do now is get a CUT with a FEL to pick it up and haul it off or pile and burn it. The overall cheapest would have been to get a decent mulching contractor FIRST.

 

[QwikDraw]

I think any mulch head could do a better job then described. Let it sit a few months untill the mulch gets dried out and re-mulch it.

 

[rutwad]

my neighbor is wanting this area to look like a golf course
What would be the most effecient way to do this?

move into town?

Hard to find 1000 acres in town at a reasonable price.

And I agree, mulching it right to start with would have been best.

Robbie, I doubt your idea would work at all. Bring it down and prove me wrong .

cbturf, we are on the same track. Using a ATV and 5x11 trailer to pick up the debris, haul to a pile, and now waiting to dry.

I had planned on fabricating a type of drag using large, heavy gauge expanded metal. But our scrap piece of expanded metal we had seems to be misplaced. It probably would have been a waste of my time trying to fabricate something anyway.

 

[yellowdogsvc]

This is a problem I see frequently. Sub-standard mulching. I have been hired to go back after the larger outfits and some of the smaller, incompetent mulchers. There is no reason there should be big stumps and large chunks of wood. The Denis Cimaf Robbie mentioned will make a nice, fine chip. I use an FAE with the trap door and it does a good job too. Either unit will provide a good, clean look and you can mill the stumps down. A dedicated stump grinder will make short work of the bigger stumps and when the grasses grow back in a few weeks, you can mow the whole site with a rotary mower like a Brushcat or similar skid steer attachment and it will turn out very nice. It makes me sick when I see some of the rape jobs around here. Gives mulching a bad name..

 

[yellowdogsvc]

H
Robbie, I doubt your idea would work at all. Bring it down and prove me wrong .
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Are you kidding? I have seen the end product on those mulchers. they do a fine job.