Best way to clear brush

VTHomestead · #21 04/13/13, 08:10 AM

Goats

fishhead · #22 04/13/13, 09:03 AM

Maybe rent a bush hog to clear the fenceline. I'd use my time and energy putting up a good fence and then put the cattle and some goats in the future pasture. Then cut down the pines and any other larger trees.

plowhand · #23 04/13/13, 10:18 AM

I'd second clearin a fence line, one wide enough say 12'. Some folks around here hire the forest service to cut a firebreak, where the plow runs they put their fence, and have room enough to use a small tractor to keep the fence line bush hogged.

If you fence it, goat it, the goats will clean it out and girdle all the little trees and some of the big 'uns. Then a few cows, and you'll have a park like pasture in a few years!

charged · #24 04/13/13, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Shrek

I cleared an acre of brush in 5 seasons using first goats, then after the barbecue a chainsaw and an old self propelled lawnmower during the second season.

The third season I used the acre for combination topsoil compost production and rotted out the remaining stumps with wood ash under the leaves and grass.

During the third and fourth seasons I plowed it and removed remnant roots while continuing to use it for topsoil production for a few more seasons. Now I just mow that area and use it for leaf composting.and maintaining it for topsoil production if I have one of my house building friends in the market for topsoil.

Shrek, could you elaborate more on the statement in bold. Woodash helps break down stumps?