[AT] Osages to maples

[Mike M]

Wow Dean, that's impressive! I suspect the trees you left will really
thrive now that they get their full sun and nutrients. Question for you,
I have an area of property that i would like to clear. It's thick like a
jungle just to the right of your M. How did you remove the roots? Did
you cut the brush first, and then tackle the roots, or were you able to
pull out clumps at a time.

Thanks,
Mike M

On 11/6/2019 4:02 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>
> Hi Mike, sorry about that.   Both of the photos I’d previously
> attached were looking generally southward but from different vantage
> points.
>
> Here’s a collage of Google aerial photos to hopefully help explain a
> little better.   My earlier 2014 picture was taken from down near
> where the big walnut tree is, but the 2019 picture was taken from way
> up close to the house (farther north than the osage bramble had ever
> been).
>
> Dean
>
> *From:*AT [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] *On Behalf Of
> *Mike M
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:52 PM
> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Osages to maples
>
> Hi Dean, could you clarify  what direction we're looking in, were the
> two larger trees buried in the brambles? I'm terrible at deciphering
> directions. Where is the Farmall parked in comparison to the old and
> new picture?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike M
>
> On 11/5/2019 6:52 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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