[AT] Osages to maples

[Phil Auten]

That certainly was a big job! I have some hedgerows along the edges of 
my property, and since the biggest is next to the county road that runs 
along the southwest edge of the property, the county will bulldoze it 
for me If I want. :o) Right now, though, it provides privacy and a small 
amount of dust control due to fairly heavy traffic on the county road. 
Fortunately, the prevailing wind blows most of the dust out and across 
the Farm-to-market road and away from me.

That Super M is still looking good after all these years!

Phil in TX


On 11/5/2019 5:52 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>
> About five years ago I started clearing out an old osage orange 
> hedgerow, maybe 150 yards long, that hadn’t been tended in many 
> decades.   Lots of time with the chainsaw, lots of bonfires, lots of 
> work with the Super M dragging logs and pulling roots and hauling 
> firewood, lots of work with the JD 620 and rear blade grading and 
> smoothing. Yesterday I had a crew plant eight new red maple trees on 
> the same line where the osage trees had been, and this afternoon I got 
> the Super M out again to haul trashcans full of water back to them.
>
> The top half of the attached photo is the 2014 view, showing one of my 
> first bonfires as I began clearing out the osage and honeysuckle and 
> briars.   My goal back then was just to clear out some breathing space 
> around a nice mature walnut tree that I’d discovered earlier that year 
> after noticing its top sticking up above the canopy of the older but 
> shorter osage trees.   It’s not visible in the photo but it’d be to 
> the right of the bonfire.   After a couple of years of occasional 
> trimming and cleanup and thinning out, I set my sights on removing the 
> hedgerow completely.   (There’s also another one, but I’m just 
> cleaning it up and will keep many of the big trees).
>
> The bottom half of the attached photo is the view from a few hours 
> ago.   The mass of trees and brambles from the top photo had been just 
> to the left of the little gravel lane behind where the tractor is now 
> sitting. The tall trees behind the tractor had all managed to survive 
> despite being engulfed by the sprawling osages; the dark one in the 
> middle is the big walnut I’d first started clearing out around five 
> years earlier.    Interesting that those trees all lean slightly away 
> from where the osages had been.   The new maples, hardly visible since 
> they’re small, are dead on the centerline of the original hedgerow.
>
> Will be interesting to see how the new trees do over time.   It’s been 
> fun, sort of, plugging away at that scraggly old hedgerow over the 
> years, and darn nice to have a couple old tractors to help.
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
>
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