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Thanks for the replies. My three priorities are speed of removing them, making use of as much of the trees as possible (firewood and chips/mulch for about 100 young trees that I am planting/grafting - instead of just burning everything), and lastly: as little damage to wildlife and the wet bottom-land as possible during the tree removal. I have access to a tree sheer but it takes a few minutes to move and position the tractor and then clip each tree, and there hundreds of small trees each acre. Most (smaller ones) I could almost do as quickly with an ax, and a lot quicker with a chainsaw but not as close to the ground. Unfortunately there is no good solution. Every method seems to have good and bad points. It's a shame to let all the good pecan wood go to waste. A few of the non-productive 70+ year old trees are being frilled to let die in place. (I've got hundreds of them.) Seems a waste, but they are just too big manage and too close to good trees to try to drop them while alive. In the Tulsa area there are so many pacan trees that the demand is just not very high for the wood except as good firewood, and even that is a buyer's market this year.
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