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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Carl <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Manlius,NY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> AT <at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike M<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> at@lists.antique-tractor.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Osages to maples<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mike M<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/6/2019 4:02 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><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).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dean</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> AT [<a 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 href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Osages to maples</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><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><br>Thanks,<br>Mike M<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/5/2019 6:52 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><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></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>AT mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com">AT@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com">http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 style='border:none;border-top:solid #D3D4DE 1.0pt'><tr><td width=55 style='width:41.25pt;border:none;padding:9.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=46 height=29 style='width:.4791in;height:.302in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D594C8.85206340" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=470 style='width:352.5pt;border:none;padding:9.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#41424E'>Virus-free. <a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4453EA'>www.avast.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>