Have been on our place since Feb. Always wanted to have my own bit of land to hunt on and to have my own food plot for deer and hunting season. Prior owner of the property had a small "food lot" we found but don't think he did much with the 1/5 acre and the ground seemed rocky and pretty much jsut terrible to have to work. Did some more roaming around our 45 acres and found what looked like a really nice area to start my own.
We sprayed herbicide about 2.5 weeks ago and you can see in the pics all the brown and red dead foliage. Yesterday I got on my Kubota L2501 and Rhino brush mower and went to town on everything. Also spent about two hours on the chainsaw cleaning up the trees to about 6-7' off the ground. Took bucket off the Kubota and put my brush grapple on the front. Dispatched all the tree limbs and then used the lower rake part of the grapple to dozer/push the dead foliage into piles to then grab and dump on the parimeter of the food plot. I estimate to have about an acre here to work with. Super happy with how this turned out after about 7 hours of work. Will let it grow up in the next couple weeks a spray again and mow.
Been reading DeerSlayers thread but with 2000 posts it's slow going but great info. Need to find a 60" disc asap and figure out which direction I'm going with what to plant. FIL is telling me may be best to do winter wheat and should have it in about early Sept.
Pics got a bit out of order but you get the idea. Any and all advice is welcome.
We sprayed herbicide about 2.5 weeks ago and you can see in the pics all the brown and red dead foliage. Yesterday I got on my Kubota L2501 and Rhino brush mower and went to town on everything. Also spent about two hours on the chainsaw cleaning up the trees to about 6-7' off the ground. Took bucket off the Kubota and put my brush grapple on the front. Dispatched all the tree limbs and then used the lower rake part of the grapple to dozer/push the dead foliage into piles to then grab and dump on the parimeter of the food plot. I estimate to have about an acre here to work with. Super happy with how this turned out after about 7 hours of work. Will let it grow up in the next couple weeks a spray again and mow.
Been reading DeerSlayers thread but with 2000 posts it's slow going but great info. Need to find a 60" disc asap and figure out which direction I'm going with what to plant. FIL is telling me may be best to do winter wheat and should have it in about early Sept.
Pics got a bit out of order but you get the idea. Any and all advice is welcome.