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Best way of manually clearing brush
« 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.
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2018, 04:34:28 PM »
Holy Crap!!

For once the answer is ACTUALLY DetCord! 

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2018, 04:54:57 PM »
How about "goatally clearing brush"?

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2018, 04:56:43 PM »
Fire?

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2018, 05:03:33 PM »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OF02FlB8Xd4

Oh did you mean manually manual?
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2018, 05:06:06 PM »
Fire?

Up your game a bit.  Napalm for the win.
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2018, 05:13:07 PM »
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2018, 05:21:22 PM »
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2018, 07:31:26 PM »
I liked "goatally."

Detcordally?

Machetally?

Nukeally fromally orbitally?


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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #11 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.

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2018, 10:09:55 PM »
^ Grrrr.

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

                  

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.

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2018, 10:49:02 PM »
Just use a razor to tidy up the brush...
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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #15 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...

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #16 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.

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Re: Best way of manually clearing brush
« Reply #17 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.

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