[AT] OT Osages to maples

[Cecil Bearden]

I had an old Bois DÁrc stump about 6 inches above ground and almost 3 ft 
diameter.  I had cut it down about 6 years ago.  Every time I was near 
it with either the Cat 110B Excavator or the 944 Loader, I would try to 
dig it up.  No movement.  When I got the D6D I was moving some small 
trees near the stump.  I backed up about 3 ft from the stump and tilted 
the blade corner to just above the ground.  When the blade hit it, it 
jumped about 4 ft out of the ground.  The stump was about 2 ft deep and 
had roots about 3 inches diameter on the side the dozer was on...    
Grass is now growing on that spot..  I had another one about 16inches on 
the other side of the creek that I pushed over 100 ft and pulled roots 
out the entire distance.
Cecil

On 11/6/2019 7:10 AM, James Peck wrote:
>
> At one time, I owned a bow made of Osage Orange. Good question where 
> it went.
>
> *Dean Vinson St. Paris Ohio AT List Member <dean at vinsonfarm.net>; 
> *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.
>
>
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