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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Lucida Sans"> Dean</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> <FONT size=4>Certainly is a very vast difference to the
area. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> <FONT size=4>When I bought my place it was a neglected
mess. The little Case 320 dozer was a very handy tool for clearing the property
lines. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> <FONT size=4>I have always marveled at your photos as
you progress with the cleanup and other jobs. I have been remiss on my photos of
my progress.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=4>Gene</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dean@vinsonfarm.net
href="mailto:dean@vinsonfarm.net">Dean Vinson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 05, 2019 6:52 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [AT] Osages to maples</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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></DIV>
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