Clearing woods- Your experience?

Here is what I would do.

I would buy a small saw mill and build a log cabin with three side smooth logs. I makes for a nicer interior. And a better seal between logs. Also you can saw the dimension lumber for interior patricians. I would get a Farmi Winch (Farmi is the correct spelling) attachment for my tractor and drag and cut my own logs and dimension for my house. A fairly good sawmill is around $7000.00 and a winch is around $3000.00. You have the tractor and the willingness to do this. If you have a good size tractor get a back hoe for it and dig the stumps out. I may be slow but it will save you a bunch of money. Just My $.00002 (Obama inflation) LOL.

Best Regards

Dave

Ive been hearing good things about puting charcoal in the soil. You could windrow it over Cut the good stuff out get the remainder burning and them heap soil over it let it char, open it back up put it out and spread the soil.

The property you looked at sounds lovely! Down a ways in NC we had some land cleared. They brought in giant equipment! It pulled the trees out from the roots the fed them directly into a shredder. Everything was bulldozed flat. Not cheap at 5k per acre but it only took them one day. Right now I'm trying to move a 15ft tall, 20ft wide pile of the old mulch that has now turned into beautiful dirt complete with earthworms (it shrunk considerably from 1.5 years ago). Going to have to rent something, the wheelbarrow thingy isn't cutting it...but I'll have to keep chipping away at it until things turn around here.
Good Luck!
KAT