Clearing brush. I might have OCD.

Posted by Slofr8 on September 29, 2006 at 05:55:17 from (66.231.218.133):

Hi everyone,
bought some land 4 years ago and just moved into the house I've been building for about a year and a half. The view out back is a, roughly, 15 acre field and then woods. My land. 57 acres. Used to be potato fields but previous owner let brush take over about 7 acres in the middle. 20 year growth of two to six inch junk wood. If it were any kind of decent trees I could live with it. Soft wood, poplar, whatever, but mister, I'm talking some ugly crap here. I cleared and burned an acre or so with a chain saw but was left with the stumps and it's hard to mow with my 63 year old JD B. I tried a JD 1010 crawler that was for sale. Guy brought it right over for me to try. Turns out the size of the 1010 is ample but it burned a LOT of oil and thru the right track a few times so I passed on the deal. I'm looking at another one that appears to be in a lot better shape. Thing is, when I look at the brush I pushed up with the 1010, I can't see how I would ever burn that pile. I was careful not to get too much dirt in the pile but it still did.
Question is, do I pile it up and just keep turning the piles, shaking out the dirt, and burning?
Do I just pay someone to haul it off? It would be a heck of a lot off hauling off, let me tell you. Someone suggested burying the piles but that would take some huge holes.
Hiring a dozer is an option but after I clear the field I can see where I could use a crawler around here. It would also increase my cylinder count by 4. We are judged by our cylinder count right?
Maybe I should just let what's growing there grow there. It's just that I hate the looks of it and besides, about a hundred years ago someone took the time and effort to clear it and might not be to happy about the way it's looking lately.
Any way, if you had to deal with this at your place let me know what you did or would do.
Thanks, Dan.

Replies:

• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. phil lowe 20:36:01 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. John A. 10:59:32 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Jerry/MT 10:25:05 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. the tractor vet 09:23:41 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Mike (WA) 08:16:38 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Brian in Ohio 07:11:21 09/29/06 (1)
  • Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Slofr8 07:35:17 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Fluggie in IA 07:03:42 09/29/06 (1)
  • Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Slofr8 07:19:07 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Bill in NorthCentral Pa 06:40:44 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. dej(JED) 06:35:52 09/29/06 (0)
• Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. jmixigo 06:15:09 09/29/06 (1)
  • Re: Clearing brush. I might have OCD. Bill shaver 18:03:48 09/29/06 (0)

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