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Title: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: MillCreek on June 25, 2018, 04:25:18 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: dogmush on June 25, 2018, 04:34:28 PM: Holy Crap!!

For once the answer is ACTUALLY DetCord!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ygCqAnGdLg
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: Pb on June 25, 2018, 04:54:57 PM: How about "goatally clearing brush"?

http://rentagoat.com
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: lupinus on June 25, 2018, 04:56:43 PM: Fire?

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Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: Kingcreek on June 25, 2018, 05:03:33 PM: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OF02FlB8Xd4

Oh did you mean manually manual?
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: RocketMan on June 25, 2018, 05:06:06 PM: Quote from: lupinus on June 25, 2018, 04:56:43 PM
Fire?

Up your game a bit. Napalm for the win.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: lupinus on June 25, 2018, 05:13:07 PM: https://m.lowes.com/pd/Lincoln-Electric-Torch-Kit/4742120

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Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 25, 2018, 05:21:22 PM: ...take off and nuke the entire site from orbit It's the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: MillCreek on June 25, 2018, 07:09:03 PM: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N224GTZ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AY91JC8377E19&psc=1

These blades should fit on my Ryobi two stroke gas trimmer brush cutter attachment. Lots of positive reviews about how these blades slice through small trees, thick brush and brambles.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: 230RN on June 25, 2018, 07:31:26 PM: I liked "goatally."

Detcordally?

Machetally?

Nukeally fromally orbitally?
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: just Warren on June 25, 2018, 07:45:19 PM: You could hire this guy named Manuel. I understand that he'll do jobs most Americans won't.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: Jim147 on June 25, 2018, 07:56:37 PM: I have had one of those blades linked in the op for years it works but it is still a lot of labor.

Go down to Home Depot or lowes and hire you a few workers and give them those.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: bedlamite on June 25, 2018, 08:11:30 PM: https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower/
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: 230RN on June 26, 2018, 10:09:55 PM: ^ Grrrr.

Boy, you better not be using any weed-burners around here.

(https://ken-carylranch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FireBan2-480x480.jpg)

Or do any smoking. We had someone in the building tossing butts around in areas covered by forest litter. Must have been someone who had lived in the city, which is covered by urban concrete and he just got used to flicking butts around. I don't know who it was, but someone else must have edumicated that person because it stopped about two weeks ago.

It's really weird that people who live in less-arid places have no conception of how fires get going around here.

And Independence Day is coming up. That always worries me.

Terry
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: freakazoid on June 26, 2018, 10:49:02 PM: Just use a razor to tidy up the brush...
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: Calumus on June 27, 2018, 09:02:26 PM: I ran one of these for a couple of years while I was getting my business up and running. It should make short work of your lot. They are a lot of fun, and great for annoying tree huggers...

https://youtu.be/rbi5911DX94
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: sumpnz on June 28, 2018, 12:02:08 AM: Rent some goats. After they clear the bulk of it you can easily cut down the reminder. When it starts to grow back kill with whatever herbicide is best. Not sure what kills it best. Glyphosphate apparently does work.
Apparently fire is a bad as a means of clearing.
Title: Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
Post by: Brad Johnson on June 28, 2018, 12:04:49 PM: Step 1) Find a couple of teenagers wanting summer work.
Step 2) Offer ten bucks an hour each, plus lunch, for whacking down brush and piling it on Spot Marked X.
Step 3) Make iced tea and sit in the shade, enjoying a lazy afternoon.

Brad