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<blockquote data-quote="JSCATTLE" data-source="post: 1259685" data-attributes="member: 16648"><p>I thought I could save money buying timber and turning it into pasture. Luckily 70 acres was pasture at one point and had 10 year old pines growing on it . I was able to get the loggers to shear the pines close to the ground and grind the whole tree for chips. The Bahia grass came back fairly quickly . 40 acres had 25 to 30 year plantation on it . I sold the trees and pushed the limbs and brush into windrows to burn . 3 years later i was able to grind the stumps and brush with a fecon mulcher. I've fed Bahia hay unrolled on that ground for 4 years. It needs lime and I'm going to spray it again this year but it has a good stand of Bahia .i haven't tried to disc this land yet probably won't for a few years. I still have 90 acres to clear . It's been cut for 8 years but the hard wood stumps are still solid. We use this as our deer lease . Ill probably hire someone with a mulcher to do 10 acres at a time . But first im going to get my "pasture " in to shape before tackling more . If I had to do it over again I'd just buy pasture . Ill end up spending more money making pasture plus the loss of revenue by running fewer cows in the process trying to get the grass where it needs to be .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JSCATTLE, post: 1259685, member: 16648"] I thought I could save money buying timber and turning it into pasture. Luckily 70 acres was pasture at one point and had 10 year old pines growing on it . I was able to get the loggers to shear the pines close to the ground and grind the whole tree for chips. The Bahia grass came back fairly quickly . 40 acres had 25 to 30 year plantation on it . I sold the trees and pushed the limbs and brush into windrows to burn . 3 years later i was able to grind the stumps and brush with a fecon mulcher. I've fed Bahia hay unrolled on that ground for 4 years. It needs lime and I'm going to spray it again this year but it has a good stand of Bahia .i haven't tried to disc this land yet probably won't for a few years. I still have 90 acres to clear . It's been cut for 8 years but the hard wood stumps are still solid. We use this as our deer lease . Ill probably hire someone with a mulcher to do 10 acres at a time . But first im going to get my "pasture " in to shape before tackling more . If I had to do it over again I'd just buy pasture . Ill end up spending more money making pasture plus the loss of revenue by running fewer cows in the process trying to get the grass where it needs to be . [/QUOTE]
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