Brush Hog Trail Making Results

[Boone]

Just went out a snapped a couple of pics of the trails I cut through the brush last year with the B7500 and a 48 inch Land Pride.

 

[Boone]

I hope I'm not off topic. I took these for the back hoe and trail question.

 

[Boone]

Last one.

 

[5string]

Boone,

You have a nice place. It does look like the brush hog has done a great job of clearing those paths. In your last picture, there is a stand of 5 or 6 trees off to the far left. Those are the size (median) that I need to deal with. Imagine 5 acres with trees that size (8" to 2" Dia.) spaced about 24" to 36" apart.

Thanks for sharing those pics.

 

[Boone]

Hi 5String,
Five acres of brush sounds like quite a bit of clearing, more like a bulldozer type situation. Good Luck.

 

[Knight9]

Hey Boone,

Great looking paths! I did a similiar thing on my ten acres. It gives us some nice walking paths and in the winter more places to go snowmobiling. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I only cut mine last fall though, so I'm hoping to get the nice grass growing up that you have. Well done!

Kevin

 

[riptides]

Nice, nice job.

Tell me about how thick were the trees on average? I am looking to do the same but I have a lot of trees close together.
Average size about 15' high, 2"wide.

I may rent equipment rather than ding my own.

HAHA.
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Boone]

I just went out and measured some of the brush and trees next to where I hogged. The sizes seem to be around one inch to one and a half inches and of course many smaller. If the trees were larger I used a chainsaw and cut the trunks even with the ground. I didn't notice any undue heavy usage on my brush hog from doing this work.
Check out my post under "brush forks" at the make it yourself forum above, to see a great way to move all the brush to the pile. These TBNers' are great for super ideas.

 

[John_Mc]

I'm curious what, if anything, you did to deal with the sapling stubble on your trails after brush hogging. I've been working on trails in my woods over the past year or so. The stumps left from small saplings can be real killers when walking the trails (not to mention tearing up the bottoms of cross-coountry skis, if you don't have enough snow cover.) In addition, it can do serious damage to horses' hooves if they step on a sharp one wrong.

Dealing with each stump individually has gotten just too time consuming, since there can be hundreds of them in just a few dozen feet on some sections of trail. Box blading works in some instances, but not always. The ones I can catch with the scarifiers sometimes get pulled up if I hit them just right, but the blade on the box rides up over the stumps more often than not. I haven't tried a roto-tiller yet, since I don't own one (might borrow my neighbors for a trial). My current method of choice is to cut them, then wait a year or more and come back with the boxblade. This has a bit better results than trying the boxblade soon after cutting.

Any helpful hints?

John Mc

 

[Egon]

Have you had any of those sapling stubs go thru a tire after they dry up and get hard?

I've made a short trail to join other trails and used the loader and back blade.

Egon