Here's a thread that will see activity about once a year. Last August we got an offer accepted on 5 acres of property in the upper peninsula of MI not 3 miles outside of a town of 2000 on a road that gets plowed first. It has super easy access to the snowmobile/ATV trails too. Those 5 acres are fully wooded though so we're here to do some clearing to figure out what goes where. I started with this natural clearing, if we can swing this for the driveway there'll be zero seeing into the property from the drive as it curves around, but it would be a longer driveway to construct and maintain. Jury's still out but it only required downing 2 trees to get to this point.
This is after mowing the ferns and clearing back some branches. I say some but this pic does not do justice to the size of the mountain of brush that got burned yesterday.
What's not pictured is all the stuff that got burned as it was cut, there was plenty of that as well. Today we probably made 5 of those piles, tonight I'll get a water tank so we can simultaneously burn and cut tomorrow to help boost our efficiency. I'm at the point I can drop a tree in a minute or 2, then delimb, buck and it's on to the next. It's a lot for 2 people, but in the next couple days we should start to be able to visualize placement of structures which really is the whole point of this year's endeavour.
This is after mowing the ferns and clearing back some branches. I say some but this pic does not do justice to the size of the mountain of brush that got burned yesterday.
What's not pictured is all the stuff that got burned as it was cut, there was plenty of that as well. Today we probably made 5 of those piles, tonight I'll get a water tank so we can simultaneously burn and cut tomorrow to help boost our efficiency. I'm at the point I can drop a tree in a minute or 2, then delimb, buck and it's on to the next. It's a lot for 2 people, but in the next couple days we should start to be able to visualize placement of structures which really is the whole point of this year's endeavour.