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Post by sd51555 on Aug 21, 2020 21:17:14 GMT -6
For you guys that had the forestry mulchers through a year or three back, how has the land responded? Would you do it again as a means to clear trails or plot space? I like using a skid steer, but that is a risky and violent business.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 6:28:11 GMT -6
Yes. Follow up with a skid loader or something to push the debris off into piles. You’ve seen the pictures of my place. That was done with a mulcher.
After three or four years all of the smaller stuff that was left has rotted away.
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Post by kl9 on Aug 22, 2020 6:57:15 GMT -6
Dozer is very similar hourly rate and will get all the stumps out and all debris pushed where it needs to be
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Post by Foggy on Aug 22, 2020 7:07:06 GMT -6
I've shown pictures of some corn. Some of that land was prepped by a forestry muncher after taking the pine trees off of it. My mulcher would grind stumps to ground level and chewed up most of the slash. I still had allot of hand work to pick up sticks and then went thru with my stump grinder to get what stumps I could. Then lots of disking and more sticks to pick up. I got a few more acres of food plots. I'd do a muncher again......but breaking new ground from forest is still allot of hand work. Not every muncher will do stumps.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 7:55:11 GMT -6
“Muncher”  |
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 7:59:45 GMT -6
I still pick sticks every time I’m up though. Running a disc would not work. Too much still in the ground.
I don’t ever plan to disc though. I think a few years of “small seeds” like brassica and easy seed like WR is a good idea. Once things rot and soften up maybe larger seeds will work.
The guy with the mulcher was the only guy I could actually get to show up and work though. I’m sure I’d be happy with the results of either method.
I will say, narrow trails and plots a mulcher probably much quicker.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 22, 2020 8:16:53 GMT -6
I've got about one more acre of land that had the forestry muncher work over it....but it was the log landing sites(actually two sites),,,,,,,and its loaded with debris. I've looked at these areas for about 3 years now......and I just dont have the energy to pick up all the wood slash and trash debris in those landing sites. Figure I will need to nuke the area for weeds and small trees......then use a landscape rake to pull the debris into windrows and piles for burning. Then de-stump it and finally disk it. Or just wait another ten years for so..........which seems to be winning out.  FORE! |
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 8:25:32 GMT -6
Found a picture of mine taken right after the mulching.  |
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 8:27:52 GMT -6
I’ll never know why he left that one conifer. It’s still a scrawny, sick, bent tree. I can’t bring myself to cut it down either.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 8:32:31 GMT -6
 3 years later. |
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Post by Reagan on Aug 22, 2020 8:37:17 GMT -6
I’ll never know why he left that one conifer. It’s still a scrawny, sick, bent tree. I can’t bring myself to cut it down either. Make a scrape and take a piss under it. |
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Post by smsmith on Aug 22, 2020 8:45:47 GMT -6
I had a mulcher open up an acre on my folks' old place, then had a dozer with a root rake clean it out. Dad and I were able to disc and plant it to buckwheat a few weeks after it was done. The next year I hired the mulcher again to make some "spoke" trails feeding around/to the acre plot. I didn't hire the dozer/rootrake. We picked up sticks for a day or so, then Dad ran the disc through. It didn't do much, but was able to expose enough soil that we got a decent winter rye catch. I hired this done a few years before my folks ended up leaving, so I have no idea what it looks like now. Probably back to scrub oak/jack pine.
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 22, 2020 9:00:55 GMT -6
I’ll never know why he left that one conifer. It’s still a scrawny, sick, bent tree. I can’t bring myself to cut it down either. You ever try DEF on that one pile? Menards has jugs of it on sale pretty cheap. |
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 9:09:49 GMT -6
I’ll never know why he left that one conifer. It’s still a scrawny, sick, bent tree. I can’t bring myself to cut it down either. You ever try DEF on that one pile? Menards has jugs of it on sale pretty cheap. No. I got sidetracked with family matters and haven’t been back up lately. Still in NV right now. Heading home tomorrow. Good reminder though. |
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 22, 2020 9:10:14 GMT -6
I’ll never know why he left that one conifer. It’s still a scrawny, sick, bent tree. I can’t bring myself to cut it down either. You ever try DEF on that one pile? Menards has jugs of it on sale pretty cheap. What is DEF? |
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