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[woodlandfarms]

I do love a good day of brushoggin virgin blackberries. You never know what you may find....

So far, about 500' of steel cable, a culvert, some sort of plow device, a huge blade to a D8 catepillar - oh, and a Fire escape ladder (go figure). A ton of fence posts...

Now, 30' of fence... I may have a farm afterall...

Carl

 

[TedLaRue]

Lovely! What's all that green stuff? Poison Ivy?
Hope you've got a good pair of wire cutters.

There's nothing quite like the sight of the weeds wiggling a couple of hundred feet ahead of you followed by the realization that you're winding up a long stretch of wire or rope.

The power company left a pretty long guy wire in the grass and I wound it up. That stuff is almost impossible to cut. I tried to use a reciprocating saw with a fine tooth hacksaw blade and it just stripped the teeth.

I also hit a guy wire anchor that they'd left sticking up out of the ground. I went back later to remove it. The screw plate was 10' deep! I've since been told that sometimes if you smack the top of the anchor with a sledge hammer, it may break the rod loose from the screw plate so that you can pull it out. Another time I just dug a small hole and cut it off below grade.

 

[J_J]

I do love a good day of brushing virgin blackberries. You never know what you may find....

So far, about 500' of steel cable, a culvert, some sort of plow device, a huge blade to a D Caterpillar - oh, and a Fire escape ladder (go figure). A ton of fence posts...

Now, 30' of fence... I may have a farm afterall...

Carl

Just curious if you had walked the property, or is it just to thick?

 

[Grrrr]

I do love a good day of brushoggin virgin blackberries. You never know what you may find....

So far, about 500' of steel cable, a culvert, some sort of plow device, a huge blade to a D8 catepillar - oh, and a Fire escape ladder (go figure). A ton of fence posts...

Now, 30' of fence... I may have a farm afterall...

Carl

Thats going to be a PITA to get off

 

[MossRoad]

I do love a good day of brushoggin virgin blackberries. You never know what you may find....

So far, about 500' of steel cable, a culvert, some sort of plow device, a huge blade to a D8 catepillar - oh, and a Fire escape ladder (go figure). A ton of fence posts...

Now, 30' of fence... I may have a farm afterall...

Carl

What, no kitchen sink yet?

I hate winding stuff up like that.

 

[Bird]

The only way it gets any worse down south is when you find yourself lying in a bed of fire ants while you're trying to cut all that loose.

 

[Barryh]

I think he's just testing out his new thicker blades to see what they can do. Have any old junked cars you can try chopping up?

 

[cqaigy2]

Just curious if you had walked the property, or is it just to thick?

I'd have to think it's too thick to get through without using a machete to hack through things. Those blackberries get tall and thick with all the rain we get here. I always tell my wife when im "going in" and to call the cost guard if im gone for more then two days.

 

[woodlandfarms]

It is that thick. And it is 40 acres of thick. Not really walkable...I have posted videos and pictures of it .....

The previous owner was a meth dealer, and he just threw his trash everywhere .. And the property has been essentially abandoned for 10 years... Things grow fast up here and blackberries are especially virulent. We had a survey crew up here this spring, and even though I had walked past it a dozen times, we stumbled across (actually into and it was DEEP) a 40'X60' pond... It was just all grown in.... Poor survey guy just slid out of sight down the wall of the pond. That put some serious fear into me...

As for the new blades, they really work, although there are some downsides to my design.... First is that they get stuck on the stump jumper. My bonus bolts that you guys use for bumper guards were installed on the inside (so we think) so I have to completely tear down the mower to make bumpers... Second, with lift added, I now get stuff caught under the deck much more often than I did before. Bumpers may help this as well.

But, the good news was that the wire came off pretty easy. I had to loosen a blade a bit but it all came off.. Much quicker than the piece of tree that I had to chainsaw out of the blade yesterday....

 

[cqaigy2]

I do love a good day of brushoggin virgin blackberries. You never know what you may find....

So far, about 500' of steel cable, a culvert, some sort of plow device, a huge blade to a D8 catepillar - oh, and a Fire escape ladder (go figure). A ton of fence posts...

Now, 30' of fence... I may have a farm afterall...

Carl

Hmm that fence doesn't look very old. Somebody probably set it down in a cleared area last year, and all the brush grew up around it.

You might as well start setting those post for the rest of the fencing your going to find.

Good luck and keep your eye's peeled.