Sub_Dude
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Hey there!
I'd like to ask about folks' experience with box blading dirt piles that have lots of weeds growing in them. Not just turf, but 6 foot tall bull grass, elephant grass, Johnson grass, whatever.
Last April, my neighbor dug out a canal on one border of my property with a dragline and put the diggings (about a yard at a time, all in a row over a hundred yards long) on my side of the canal. I couldn't bushhog the piles, and the weeds took over while I was busy doing other things.
I need to smooth out the piles of dirt, but I was wondering if boxblading the tall grass and roots would be more trouble than cutting them out of the way. Pulling them doesn't sound feasible, and cutting them by hand, with a string trimmer, or with a DR mower would be quite a task.
So what say ye? Will it hurt to leave the vegetation standing as I pull the dirt out into the pasture and smooth it? Or will it turn into a mess worse than what I have now?
I've attached a flick, showing the berm (hidden under the grass) and the grass. I recruited my 5' 5" daughter to show scale. (You can tell she's quite the helper./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif) In the background are Brazilian pepper trees, which I need to get my tractor to so I can eradicate them from my land. But first I have to get my tractor over the canal. But that's another project, which can't happen until I can get near the canal. It's scary to think my own Honey-do list is longer than my wife's. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
Any help appreciated; any further questions gladly answered. Thanks in advance.
The Sub Dude
I'm gonna live forever....So far, so good....
I'd like to ask about folks' experience with box blading dirt piles that have lots of weeds growing in them. Not just turf, but 6 foot tall bull grass, elephant grass, Johnson grass, whatever.
Last April, my neighbor dug out a canal on one border of my property with a dragline and put the diggings (about a yard at a time, all in a row over a hundred yards long) on my side of the canal. I couldn't bushhog the piles, and the weeds took over while I was busy doing other things.
I need to smooth out the piles of dirt, but I was wondering if boxblading the tall grass and roots would be more trouble than cutting them out of the way. Pulling them doesn't sound feasible, and cutting them by hand, with a string trimmer, or with a DR mower would be quite a task.
So what say ye? Will it hurt to leave the vegetation standing as I pull the dirt out into the pasture and smooth it? Or will it turn into a mess worse than what I have now?
I've attached a flick, showing the berm (hidden under the grass) and the grass. I recruited my 5' 5" daughter to show scale. (You can tell she's quite the helper./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif) In the background are Brazilian pepper trees, which I need to get my tractor to so I can eradicate them from my land. But first I have to get my tractor over the canal. But that's another project, which can't happen until I can get near the canal. It's scary to think my own Honey-do list is longer than my wife's. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
Any help appreciated; any further questions gladly answered. Thanks in advance.
The Sub Dude
I'm gonna live forever....So far, so good....