[AT] Osages to maples
Mike M
meulenms at gmx.com
Wed Nov 6 15:34:46 PST 2019
I have tons of Box Elder, total crap trees, might try to cable them high
and pull them out with my neighbors 4440, if mine won't do it.
Mike M
On 11/6/2019 5:37 PM, Carl Gogol wrote:
>
> After bush hogging the smaller stuff I have cleared acres of scrub
> brush by chainsaw and big burn piles. Cutting the stumps level to the
> ground has been hard on chains, but leaves no holes in the ground.
> Works well for pasture.
>
> Grass perks right up after the shade is removed. Species encountered
> are Hawthorne, Honeysuckle, Black Cherry, ash and Box Elder. Some
> stumps are cut a second time a year or so later as they miraculously
> rise a few inches out of the ground. Quite a bit of work, but no dozer
> required.
>
> Carl
>
> Manlius,NY
>
> *From:*AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *Mike M
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:12 PM
> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Osages to maples
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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