Tjcib
Ridin' The Range
We purchased a little place in 2020. Previous owners has a few horses and had T-posts fencing set up all around, but they allowed the back pasture to overgrow. It was about 2/3rd pine saplings and some sweetgum. Fenced area is about 3/4ths of an acre.
The wife and I cut down most of the saplings (leaving a few choice trees as possible shade) and we're planning to chip them (because who doesn't love wood chips). But due to access issues for the size chipper needed, we have decided to use a friend's forestry mulcher on the area. In reality, we left stumps about 6 inches high, which means we really couldn't mow if we needed to. So we are thinking the forestry mulcher will eliminate the stumps while still leaving the the organic matter in the ground.
There are also some huge wild blackberry patches that have sprung up, and rather than dealing with those by hand, the mulcher can at least get those to a manageable state. The pigs will probably take care of the roots...
Plan is to run our pigs through there for a season to help stir things up, then hopefully sheep rotating through our 1 fenced acre.
The wife and I cut down most of the saplings (leaving a few choice trees as possible shade) and we're planning to chip them (because who doesn't love wood chips). But due to access issues for the size chipper needed, we have decided to use a friend's forestry mulcher on the area. In reality, we left stumps about 6 inches high, which means we really couldn't mow if we needed to. So we are thinking the forestry mulcher will eliminate the stumps while still leaving the the organic matter in the ground.
There are also some huge wild blackberry patches that have sprung up, and rather than dealing with those by hand, the mulcher can at least get those to a manageable state. The pigs will probably take care of the roots...
Plan is to run our pigs through there for a season to help stir things up, then hopefully sheep rotating through our 1 fenced acre.