[AT] Osages to maples

[Mike M]

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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