Wasn't planning on doing anything for this year at the new Ohio camp, but temptation got the best of me. We do have a 1 acre field, but the camper is sitting on it and the neighbor puts up hay on it. Since the place was timbered 4 years ago there are some spots that are opened up, but boy are they thick with brush, old tree tops, and saplings. Picked a spot that doesn't lay that badly and decided to clear it. My son and I work on it Saturday and today. We finished about 1PM. We also cut a path in each direction to connect to two other logging roads that we had cleared this Spring.
At my house in PA, I have a 65HP tractor w/loader and most of the implements needed to do the work. Unfortunately I can't haul that tractor with my truck and trailer so I am stuck with the Swisher mower, chainsaw, and a brush cutter on the weed wacker. I now have an appreciation of what some people go thru using small equipment like this. It took alot of work to get about a 1/4 acre or so cleared. If I had the tractor, we would have been done in a hour or two and wouldn't have broken a sweat. With now having a desk job, I am not in the best of shape and not used to the heat. I am feeling it this evening.
Will be back down there for the labor day since squirrel season comes in. Plan on putting down winter wheat or rye, and will probably thrown in some clover seed. Will also set a blind up. Won't be able to till, but figure I will put the seed heavy and hope for the best. I have a tiller, but there are so many briar and tree stumps that it wouldn't work. Maybe in a year or two once they rot out.
Plan on cutting more this winter to hopefully get it up to 1/2 acre or more.
At my house in PA, I have a 65HP tractor w/loader and most of the implements needed to do the work. Unfortunately I can't haul that tractor with my truck and trailer so I am stuck with the Swisher mower, chainsaw, and a brush cutter on the weed wacker. I now have an appreciation of what some people go thru using small equipment like this. It took alot of work to get about a 1/4 acre or so cleared. If I had the tractor, we would have been done in a hour or two and wouldn't have broken a sweat. With now having a desk job, I am not in the best of shape and not used to the heat. I am feeling it this evening.
Will be back down there for the labor day since squirrel season comes in. Plan on putting down winter wheat or rye, and will probably thrown in some clover seed. Will also set a blind up. Won't be able to till, but figure I will put the seed heavy and hope for the best. I have a tiller, but there are so many briar and tree stumps that it wouldn't work. Maybe in a year or two once they rot out.
Plan on cutting more this winter to hopefully get it up to 1/2 acre or more.
