I cleared, or maybe more correctly "opened up" 12 acres so dense with brush and vines that at first I literally could not walk through it. I carved it into small sections I could control, opening up firelanes, raking them clean and, with the judicious use of an accelerant, burned it out just to be able to move through it. In some cases I was able to blast through with my old Sidewinder bushhog (it's really amazing what that thing can eat up).
The small trees I didn't want I either pulled up with my 8N or I cut them down with a chain saw, as close to ground as possible so I could maintain the area with the Sidewinder. I treated the stumps of the ones I sawed down with a product called Pathway---paint the cambium ring of the freshly-cut stump and they want sprout back out.
I learned that if you're not in a big hurry you can burn an area, wait about a year and a half, and you can walk through and push over trees up to about four inches. They just break off even with the ground.
It took about six years of weekends to finish this (actually I'm still cutting trees). I estimate I've burned more than 400 big brush piles.
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