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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.<br>
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Mike M<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/6/2019 4:02 AM, Dean Vinson
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Mike, sorry
about that. Both of the photos I’d previously attached
were looking generally southward but from different vantage
points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="color:windowtext"> AT
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com">mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Mike M<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Osages to maples<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/5/2019 6:52 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<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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