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<p>I had an old Bois DÁrc stump about 6 inches above ground and
almost 3 ft diameter. I had cut it down about 6 years ago. Every
time I was near it with either the Cat 110B Excavator or the 944
Loader, I would try to dig it up. No movement. When I got the
D6D I was moving some small trees near the stump. I backed up
about 3 ft from the stump and tilted the blade corner to just
above the ground. When the blade hit it, it jumped about 4 ft out
of the ground. The stump was about 2 ft deep and had roots about
3 inches diameter on the side the dozer was on... Grass is now
growing on that spot.. I had another one about 16inches on the
other side of the creek that I pushed over 100 ft and pulled roots
out the entire distance. <br>
Cecil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/6/2019 7:10 AM, James Peck wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At one time, I owned a bow made of Osage
Orange. Good question where it went.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dean Vinson St. Paris Ohio AT List
Member <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dean@vinsonfarm.net"><dean@vinsonfarm.net></a>;
</b>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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