[AT] Osages to maples
Mike M
meulenms at gmx.com
Wed Nov 6 11:17:44 PST 2019
Forgot to mention Osage Orange is a very sought after firewood, it burns
very hot. If you have more to clear, a listing under the "free" section
on Craigslist would have someone out there cutting it to burn in their
stoves. Unless you heat with wood, then it's a moot point.
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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