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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?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Mike M<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/5/2019 6:52 PM, Dean Vinson
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dean Vinson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saint Paris, Ohio<o:p></o:p></p>
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