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What implement should I use

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Double M

09-06-2006 08:47:42




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I have a seven acre pasture that was overgrown with brush. The brush is all cut down but now I need to remove the cuttings. What implement would work best? The ground is pretty rough and there are some stumps.The simpler and cheaper the better.
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Hugh MacKay

09-06-2006 19:37:37




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
Double M: Follow Elmer's suggestion, get a half dozen hogs without the bush. Put an electric fence around the area. By the time there done, you'll just pick up the wood, finish till the soil and seed whatever you want.

Feed them a bit of grain everyday, and a hog putting on muscle rooting stumps everyday will be the finest kind of eating when the job is done.



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Elmers Grassman

09-06-2006 13:47:07




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
I think your going to have to wait to burn. If the drought is that bad I don"t think you want to waste time and money on a new seeding Think about pasturing pigs until then. They dig stumps like heck and when your done they eat great or sell for profit.



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NorthM

09-06-2006 13:18:15




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
How big is the brush? What I use here is a 6' rough cut mower with the blades removed and I have put heavy chains on it instead. They do a great job of busting up the regrowth of aspen and willow trees that I have on pastures and I have used it on land I have been reclaiming and if the stumps are cut close to the ground then I can go over top and the chains wipe everything else out. Rocks do not bother the chains and if you hit a tough stump, then no breakage.

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Lou

09-06-2006 14:03:35




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to NorthM, 09-06-2006 13:18:15  
I was thinking of a brushog when I read the question, but a brushhog with chains instead of blades thats a great idea. I gotta remrmber that one.



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NorthM

09-07-2006 06:16:31




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Lou, 09-06-2006 14:03:35  
I use 1/2" or 5/8" inch chain and weld some 3/8 flat iron on the ends and they help to do a better job of cutting. I use it to cut grass on the driveway and it works well. Before with the blades you had to be watching all the time for obstructions and missed a lot in the tall grass. It tends to shatter the crowns on regrowth aspen in the pastures and they tend to not grow back. Willows are harder to cut off and require more power than blades to run the mower.

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John (MO)

09-06-2006 12:23:23




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
I think I`d just hand pile them in to brush pile and burn. Maybe use a front or back blade to help move them or pack them a little tighter if I had one available.

The old dump rake would be an ok idea if you could find one and afford to buy it. Most that I have seen sell in the last few years go for big money to people who want to set them in their yard for looks or cut them up and build something fancy out of the parts. They are far to expensive in my opinion to buy for raking a few acres or brush.

Buy some hot dogs and invite the neighbors over to help you burn. Maybe pass out cold ones after the work is done and the fires die way down.

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Double M

09-06-2006 12:35:36




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to John (MO), 09-06-2006 12:23:23  
I appreciate the idea. Hand piling has resulted in a brush pile about 30 X 30 and 15 feet tall. Eventually, after the drought we are in is over, I plan to burn. Still there is way too much in the way of cuttings on the ground to disc and plant the field.



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Don-Wi

09-06-2006 10:42:16




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
It might be time to implement a controled burn. With those stumps, if they're very big and close together, there isn't a whole lot you can do. What is the goal of clearing the brush?

Are you gonna work the land and put some sed in or?

How big are the stumps?


Donovan from Wisconsin



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Double M

09-06-2006 12:38:32




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Don-Wi, 09-06-2006 10:42:16  
The stumps are pretty small and low to the ground. Unfortunately due to a long running drought here a controlled burn is out of the question. I have to get it cleaned up so I can disc and plant this winter.



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Sam#3

09-06-2006 09:30:26




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
I agree with Old that the sulky rake would be best tool UNLESS the stumps are too close together to drive around. Those rakes won't pull stumps!



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old

09-06-2006 09:19:53




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 08:47:42  
An old dump rake and 2 people might work well. The reason for the 2 people is one has to ride the rake to work the dump trip. Plus you can buy them cheap, theres probably a lot of them still sitting in the fence rows since they are a thing of the long since gone way of rakeing hay. Shoot I still have one sitting out back and its been there at least 20 years

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Double M

09-06-2006 12:39:42




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to old, 09-06-2006 09:19:53  
That does sound like it would work.



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old

09-06-2006 14:22:59




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 12:39:42  
By the way what part of the country are you in?? If your close enough I have a few ways to help you out



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Double M

09-06-2006 19:00:45




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to old, 09-06-2006 14:22:59  
I'm in north Texas. We are on our 2nd year of drought. Monday we had our first rain showers since early July. Less than an inch of rain but at least it broke the streak of 42 days of 100+ temps. Right now we are about 15 inches behind in rainfall.

I am doing this in hope that the drought will break this fall (typically pretty rainy around here). My plan is to get it cleared, disced a couple of times, sprayed and then sprigged with coastal bermuda. That hybrid is so drought resistant that fields around here that were parched and brown on Sunday are green and growing today. In normal years good fields provide 3 or 4 harvests. It's also a very palatable horse hay, at least my horses think so.

I appreciate all the helpful thoughts. I think I'll try to get a cultivator or landscape rake and do the best I can with it.

Pray for rain and maybe I'll be able to burn it off.

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old

09-06-2006 19:22:08




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 19:00:45  
O know how it is dry where I am and we are behind about 13 inchs for the last 18 months or so here. If you have a loader they work well, just scim the ground with the bucket and push it up in piles



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old

09-06-2006 14:12:47




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 Re: What implement should I use in reply to Double M, 09-06-2006 12:39:42  
Believe me I know it works since I have done it more then once, but that was years ago and thats why the rake is sitting where it is now. I used it and then when done cleaning up parked it out back and have never needed it again.



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