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I have tons of Box Elder, total crap trees, might try to cable them
high and pull them out with my neighbors 4440, if mine won't do it.<br>
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Mike M <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/6/2019 5:37 PM, Carl Gogol wrote:<br>
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<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>
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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-rfc2396E" href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com"><at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com></a> <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Mike M<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:12 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">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>
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Thanks,<br>
Mike M<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/6/2019 4:02 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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. </span><o:p></o:p></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).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="color:windowtext"> AT [<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">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"
moz-do-not-send="true">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Osages to maples</span><o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/5/2019 6:52 PM, Dean Vinson
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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>
<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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