Extreme Forestry Mulching

[BarnyardEngineering]

(quoted from post at 07:36:20 04/13/23)

(quoted from post at 09:54:15 04/13/23) With all the miles of right of way they need to clear, they brought in special equipment and extra laborers to do your section?

? This is in the middle of a national forest, the crew worked in this area for weeks. Expand out to like a 5 mile radius and they were working here for months.

Not you, the other two-letter-four-number guy who was complaining and made them bring in a special crew with box trucks and a chipper instead of just running it through with a forestry mulcher.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

(quoted from post at 05:23:47 04/13/23)
Color me unimpressed. Yeah, they're fast, and they save work. But what they leave behind is not "mulch" but rather do-it-yourself obstacle courses.

The power company had one of these things here last year, and now I have stumps all over the place. The pile of debris has been removed, but I still have to brush hog that area because it would kill a mower in the first pass. They promised me no stumps. #@%&*!~ liars.

Why do you HAVE to brush hog the area now? It was fine without being brush hogged before. Let it grow. They'll come back and mulch it when it needs mulching.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

(quoted from post at 07:40:48 04/13/23) I don't know why they're able to call it ''Forestry Mulching''. This is NOT a forestry practice. It's a land/field clearing practice. The citiotes down the street thought it would make their woodland look park-like. It made it look dirt-like. Now they're planting ornamentals to fill in the dirt spaces, for privacy screening. I'm done with my forestry rant, for now!! steve

Sure it's a forestry practice. Clearing underbrush from logging roads and around trees for logging. Mulching stumps after logging to remove obstacles to future logging, hasten decomposition, and promote new tree growth. Clearing underbrush and removing undesirable trees to promote desirable tree growth and keep invasive species in check.

My forearms are wishing for a forestry mulcher right now, all torn to shreds by underbrush manually cutting it out with a chainsaw to keep it off the fences.

 

[Steven Allen]

(quoted from post at 09:37:47 04/13/23) If you were that worried about it why didn't you keep the right of way cut instead of letting it grow up?

Because, in the last 40 years we've lived here, no one has cared. Only this year did the company decide to tear up my yard by shredding the trees I was perfectly happy to have there, none of which was remotely jeopardizing the power lines.

Another company then came along and took down my trees under [i:a35067817d]their[/i:a35067817d] lines--what joy to have TWO companies lines in my front yard!--and left me many stumps from trees that had also been here for decades, none of which threatened the lines. I petitioned to have them deal with the stumps, and they refused. I don't even get power from this company: the lines are trunk lines they recently bought from another company.

I am therefore a fan of neither method: either way, I am left with work and expense. A pox on both their houses.

 

[MJMJ]

(quoted from post at 13:49:15 04/13/23)

(quoted from post at 09:37:47 04/13/23) If you were that worried about it why didn't you keep the right of way cut instead of letting it grow up?

Because, in the last 40 years we've lived here, no one has cared. Only this year did the company decide to tear up my yard by shredding the trees I was perfectly happy to have there, none of which was remotely jeopardizing the power lines.

Another company then came along and took down my trees under [i:2becc8902a]their[/i:2becc8902a] lines--what joy to have TWO companies lines in my front yard!--and left me many stumps from trees that had also been here for decades, none of which threatened the lines. I petitioned to have them deal with the stumps, and they refused. I don't even get power from this company: the lines are trunk lines they recently bought from another company.

I am therefore a fan of neither method: either way, I am left with work and expense. A pox on both their houses.

I don't blame you for being irritated, but when you buy land with a right of way through it, you have to realize you don't really own anything in that right of way. All that being said, it really doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand. These mulchers are fantastic at doing what they're designed to do, but they aren't designed to make a finished yard.

 

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