This weekend, I went bushwhacking through the Devil's Club on my property to find the property marker stakes. I discovered my lot goes back about 50 feet further than I thought. If I have to manually pull up each plant, I figure I might be dead before that happens. I want a faster solution to clear the Devil's Club. This part of the property is full of downed branches, undergrowth and is very uneven ground with lots of holes and depressions. Accordingly, I cannot use a brush mower, as I have done in the past on other properties.
I have a machete, a bladed brush-cutter head on my Ryobi gas trimmer, and a billhook, neither of which is particularly fast in clearing the Devil's Club. In doing some research, I found some suggestions for a brush axe:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/True-Temper-Bush-Axe/1000358817. Some people call it a sling blade. I call it a kaiser blade. Does anyone have experience with this? I am hoping to find the brush equivalent of a scythe, and be able to take down several plants per swing. The plants do have hard woody stems, so it is like cutting down a sapling.