Brute 23":1j8auttz said:
You are looking at short term solutions... not long term resolutions. If you doze those bushes out there will be 10X that amount next year. If you smooth out those hog roots... the hogs will be back the next night.
Invest in a sprayer for behind the tractor and get your applicators license. You can boom spray the small bushes and spot spray the big stuff. It will also help with your hog problem because they may be feeding on some thing the herbicide will kill out.
On the hogs, the only way to get rid of them is fence them out little by little. Start on the side where they travel the most. When you slow them down you can disk and drag out their roots with a regular tractor.
Im not a big fan of dozers because they do so much damage. You end up touching it up with the tractor any ways and that ground is useless until it comes back. I agree with the others, if you want to get the show on the road quick get a mulcher in there and spray it behind them when every thing spouts back up.
You can have a really nice place in 3-5yrs... but you will need to spray that place every year for the rest of your life.
right... look at how good that worked in Cross-7's situation. it didn't.
Dozing tear up the ground.. thats what they are for. you have to destroy that root system to get that brush out.
I just took out brush plus 60+ foot locut trees early this year and already have it planted to grass. It won't take 5 years to grow.
Spraying every year? You're doing it wrong if you have to spray every year. I've never sprayed any ground I've tore up and its weed and brush free.
Buddy of mine just cleared 5 acres of huge 4' stumps, trees, brush etc.. earlier this year and he just now got it planted to soybeans already. he backhoe'd, dozed, root raked, etc.
just think about spraying 200 acres of land.. before..after.. every year..
you guys must be sh!tting out 100 dollar bills everyday.. a dozer is going to cost you very little in comparison and do a much..much better job.