I too have a 10 acre gravel pit. Two lakes. One lake during the dry season dries up leaving about 4 inches of muck, mud.
The boss wants to start flowers in pit. So I harvest muck with loader and dump trailer and pile it up where she wants.
Tree trimmers working for power company has left us about 20 loads of wood chips/leafs.
My neighbor has 3 horses. Once a year I loan him my backhoe and he delivers me 8 14k dump trailer loads of horse poo, hay, sawdust, wood chips mixed with lime mixed in.
By mixing the muck and horse poo I have piles of good dirt in the gravel pit. I cover the piles with 3 inches of wood chips to keep moisture in and weeds down. The boss has started what she calls "The Garden of Eden." When she thins out her flowers beds they get planted in the pit. We have many hills, go-cart, kawasaki mule trails, and a target ranger. It will be a life time project, but it's looking better each year.
I don't own a brush hog. Instead I use finish mover. Keep the ground level and slowly remove asian honeysuckle with the backhoe. No need for brush hog.
I did discover that asain honeysuckle does provide nice shade to transplant goood trees in the summer. I've started walnut and holly trees this summer in the shade. They lived. Plan to remove the honeysuckle around the good trees in a year to two after trees have adjusted. george
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