Re: little critters

Posted by Billy NY on November 18, 2008 at 15:31:03 from (64.12.117.74):

In Reply to: little critters posted by buickanddeere on November 18, 2008 at 09:21:56:

Our place was fields and hedgerows, 2 of the largest fields have been idle since around '87, and are woods now, birch, some hardwoods, lot of young trees, saplings, brush, vines, briars, blackberries, rasberries etc. The place is heavily overgrown with lush vegetation

It is nasty work to get in there with a rotary cutter, with an open station tractor, a front end loader with down pressure is a must have. Safety glasses and a heavy canvas coat like a carhart, gloves also a must have.

I just came back from doing some "hogging", saplings are a little more brittle this time of year, briars and anything with prickers, barbs etc., and all the rest will hook onto you, smack you and even impale you, I had a nice one come right up to my torso today and could have impaled me if I was not paying attention, going slow enough to stop and brush it off and away, but still, you had best use care when doing this work. I have not been in the middle of these fields in a few years, usually cut some lanes or paths into other areas I've cleared. Prior to that, been a long time since any equipment has been in there.

Areas that are overgrown, just teaming with wildlife, voles scattering everywhere even at these temperatures of high 20's, cottontails, birds nests in all the brush, now taken over by field mice, of which the place is loaded with, hawks, coyotes, and fox love that, grouse and turkey are abundant, real nice habitat it has become, that is for sure.

Now I saw half a dozen or so buck rubs, on 2"-3" dia. trees, ones I have not seen before, 2'-3' long, trees are really scraped up, all over our place, deer trails look like a herd of cattle have been through, and those rubs are everywhere, when it was all in crops, rarely saw deer, well the population was not what it is today, I like neat fields in crops, but the resources you get from letting it grow in, wildlife, timber, firewood, some of the staghorn sumac is 6" diameter, has some real nice grain to it, we have quite a bit of it, would love to find a woodworker to sell some to, very unique and not often found. Interesting to have watched over the years as it's grown in.

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