Advice for cleaning up an Ozark "jungle" property?

I have been really pondering this (pondered the guard donkey too). My youngest has alot of allergies (some fatal) and dogs are one of the things he is allergic too. Though if it was a completely outside dog it would probably be ok.

I have never had a LGD before and don't really know where to start on that. I "assume" training is a bit more involved than with a typical house pet dog?

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Ok I looked that up and that looks like a good idea too. Thanks.

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Welcome to the Ozarks Freya!!
It is beautiful here, the people are awesome and it will be well worth the work you'll have to do. We have tons of buckbrush on our property, but not as much as we did last year. We've just been chipping away at it with pruners, pulling some, spraying some and burning some. Goats are not an option for us because I don't want them eating my huge wild blackberry patch!! And you can't get a brush hog thru our woods, yet. Also have tons of wild roses and gooseberries. And before anybody nails me for killing the gooseberries, we've got hundreds of plants. Makes it hard to get thru the woods in some places.

Some advice from when we bought ours years ago--We started clearing by hand--it just seemed to close in behind us!!
Best advice is to hire a bulldozer, clear your road and house site--then once you get on it, decide which way to go.
(near Willow Springs)

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I certainly empathize w/you. We could not take ONE step into some parts of our wooded areas. One day we got into the 'jungle' & were clipclipclipping & somone drove into the property-there's a crushed granite drive up the middle-we could barely see them and could not get out to greet them! Took us 10-15 min to 'clip' a path.

Patty

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What type of jungle are you talking about? Grasses/weeds, or small saplings?

When we bought our property, I used a Troy Built sickle bar mower on it. Anything up to 1" saplings were no problem. Self propelled, so even on our steep slopes it wasn't that difficult to use.

You can't buy them new any more, probably due to litigation. They're wicked, but that's why they work so well. I don't know how the replacement wire ones work. I can't see them working as well. Older manufacture's were called the Geri Mower. Maybe you could check on ebay.

Michael

If you get one that is a jungle hire a bush hog from one of the neighbors to bush hog it if it is not too steep. If it is then hire a bulldozer. A bush hog will clear small stuff and leave the trees of any size. Then you can fence it and get rid of the rest.

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When you get a place bought and get down here, hollar and I will give
you a crash course in LGD's, predators, Ozarks living, etc. I live in Ozark
county not all that far from Howell County.

We raise goats & llamas and down in this area, you better have LGD's or
you won't have goats for very long.

Randy

You go bush hogging thru those thick woods in that area and your bush
hog won't survive very long. Rocks. Lots and lots of rocks. Some big,
some not so big.

Randy