How do you pull underbrush?

[Ruffy]

I've got a bunch of underbrush that I could just use loppers and chop off. I could dig them up, too, but I'm lazy. Any magic tools to make my job go more quickly?

Looking at picking up a mattock or something.

[BADRACR1]

Round Up. Lots of it. Or kill it with fire!:seasix:

[...Whitepower...]

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[RED-85-Z51]

Take your pick....

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[GRN ENVY]

Brush over would seem like a logical decision :shrug:

['77Babe]

Goats.

[Shrike6]

Goats.

And I was expecting you to say wax...

['77Babe]

And I was expecting you to say wax...

:leaving:

[Sneaks]

Messicans........:leaving:

[CertInsaneC5]

Messicans........:leaving:

:iagree:

[mrvette]

I have this big assed chain with links about 3/8" on the metal, nice hooks on the ends....one loop around the trailer hitch, one snug loop around the base of the brush/bush/whatEVER, and drive forward with about a 2' slack, that thing coming out after one or two snatches.....course a ~4500-5000 lbs loaded work van with posi rear does have a slight advantage.....

if you drive a Yugo, you go at it maybe a dozen times.....:issues::rofl:

[Jeff '79]

I have this big assed chain with links about 3/8" on the metal, nice hooks on the ends....one loop around the trailer hitch, one snug loop around the base of the brush/bush/whatEVER, and drive forward with about a 2' slack, that thing coming out after one or two snatches.....course a ~4500-5000 lbs loaded work van with posi rear does have a slight advantage.....

if you drive a Yugo, you go at it maybe a dozen times.....:issues::rofl:

:iagree:

[Bill]

I have this big assed chain with links about 3/8" on the metal, nice hooks on the ends....one loop around the trailer hitch, one snug loop around the base of the brush/bush/whatEVER, and drive forward with about a 2' slack, that thing coming out after one or two snatches.....course a ~4500-5000 lbs loaded work van with posi rear does have a slight advantage.....

if you drive a Yugo, you go at it maybe a dozen times.....:issues::rofl:

I had some dead shrubs in my front flower bed I removed that way. Of course, I had to use multiple chains so I didn't have to get tires on the grass. Redneck landscaping. My neighbors were all laughing at me.

[Milton Fox]

How big an area do you want to clear? :waiting:

[OddBall]

Messicans........:leaving:

:Jeff '79:

[Kerrmudgeon]

We used to get an old flat spring matress and drag it behind a tractor. Takes everything down. Those little metal slats are like blades. Find one at a junk/scrap yard....:seasix:

This is an old lawn chair frame which would work too, but you get the idea. :yesnod:

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/5/3/6/3/7/7/webimg/577366558_tp.jpg

[lspencer534]

I had some dead shrubs in my front flower bed I removed that way. Of course, I had to use multiple chains so I didn't have to get tires on the grass. Redneck landscaping. My neighbors were all laughing at me.

When I first moved into my home, there were about 30 boxwood shrubs in the front flower beds. Boxwood is the fastest growing shrub known to mankind. You can't kill them by cutting them off at the ground, so I pulled them up with a chain attached to my tractor. My tractor is strong, but it took 5-6 tugs with each one. I now have just 3 shrubs, mulch and ground cover.

[mrvette]

When I first moved into my home, there were about 30 boxwood shrubs in the front flower beds. Boxwood is the fastest growing shrub known to mankind. You can't kill them by cutting them off at the ground, so I pulled them up with a chain attached to my tractor. My tractor is strong, but it took 5-6 tugs with each one. I now have just 3 shrubs, mulch and ground cover.

Yup, 4 English boxwoods along the old concrete deck where I capped it off and squared it up, and put the glass room, pulled them like stated above, dug new holes and now some 12? years later the silly things are tall as me on the down hill side of the room addition, along the back wall....and all 22' of the wall is taken up with them too.....yeh, they grow ok, course having that tin roof constantly watering them, helps a bunch too....

[Ruffy]

How big an area do you want to clear? :waiting:

Just want to get rid of enough to clear a path through my property.

I needed to fill in all the holes last weekend's project (removing fence) left in the yard. So I took the opportunity to create an entrance that my garden tractor could take to get to the part of the property on the other side of the ravine and use the extra soil to fill the holes

This took entirely too long.

Before and afters...

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/Before_zpseefd1b7c.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/alldone_zpse0ec009c.jpg


Bonus picture. How long do you think this barbed wire fence has been here?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/oldbarbedwire_zpsaeff60ba.jpg

[lspencer534]

Bonus picture. How long do you think this barbed wire fence has been here?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/oldbarbedwire_zpsaeff60ba.jpg

34 years?

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Bonus picture. How long do you think this barbed wire fence has been here?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/oldbarbedwire_zpsaeff60ba.jpg

34 years?

916 years?

[lspencer534]

916 years?

I'm surprised that the barbed wire hasn't rusted yet....

[Ruffy]

916 seems high and 34 seems low. The previous owner purchased the property 33 years ago. He didn't put it up so the original family had to. Most of the wire is rusted but this part looks new.

Good thing my tetanus booster is current.

[NEED-A-VETTE]

I'm surprised that the barbed wire hasn't rusted yet....

Witchcraft.

[lspencer534]

Witchcraft.

I think the tree is feeding the wire life-preserving serum. I heard that happens....

[NEED-A-VETTE]

I think the tree is feeding the wire life-preserving serum. I heard that happens....

That's way more plausible. You know what they say: The simplest answer is usually the correct one.

[Ruffy]

Naw...prolly witchcraft

[lspencer534]

That's way more plausible. You know what they say: The simplest answer is usually the correct one.

In that case, you can't get any more simple than me!

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Naw...prolly witchcraft

Or sorcery.

In that case, you can't any more simple than me!

Truth.



:leaving:

[Milton Fox]

Spookables! mang

[mrvette]

Naw...prolly witchcraft

Which crafty witch you switch with???:rofl:

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Spookables! mang

I forgot about the spookables. :ohnoes: