Land Clearing

This project was undertaken in an effort to remove thousands of elm trees in order to open up the property more for horse pasture usage.  A majority of the trees felled were of a diameter small enough to be cut with HRF’s newly purchased tree shear.  This shear easily felled trees 14″ in diameter and was successful in felling a few trees approaching 18-20′”.

Due to the sheer numbers of trees involved HRF knew that herbicide application after all trees were felled would be an issue.  Wes retrofitted the shear with a custom made spraying system allowing rapid herbicide application to each cut stump immediately after shearing.  The system worked phenomenally .

Larger trees were felled using chainsaw and sprayed with a backpack sprayer.   All debris was later piled and compacted with the compact track loader coupled with a heavy duty grapple.  These piles will dry out over a years time and will be ready for burning next year.  This project made a radical transformation to the property and looks great.  It was fun to work on and and a successful trial run of the sprayer system Wes developed.