Amazingly, it’s grown 2x in the last month when heat came through.
It was previously once mowed down until PO moved out last year and only paid to have small area around the house mowed.
I’m thinking of walking it and weed eating and chopping down tall points by hand.
only mow where I can confirm and see no stumps/lumber/rocks
by aLifeOfPi
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Rent a Bush hog and go to town! Or pay to have it done.
Kill it with fire?
Goats
Chop it down with a weed whacker then mow over it 100 times. But yeah, weed whacking will be exploratory to find any stumps, rocks, etc. If it was a lawn at some point you just have to worry about saplings mostly.
Brush hog or a weed whacker
You need a bush hog (rotary cutter) . It doable with a beefy string trimmer, preferably with a 2-4point blade. But a largw gauge nylon string can do to. But it going to take time.
can you plant wildflowers instead, or are you required by the city to mow it all down? a brush hog will easily demolish all of that.
I’m here for this because I just bought a new house, and the previous owners haven’t mowed this season AT ALL. I move in on Wednesday, and it’s literally waist high.
I have a little tractor with a brush hog, but am I going to scalp/ruin it? Also, WTF do I do with 2 acres of basically hay once it’s mowed? Am I going to have to rent a power rake or something?
I’m planning on following the cool season guide after this is fixed, but I’m already committed to this year being a disaster. I just want any and all thoughts on getting from A to B as soon as practical.
Rent a tractor or some heavy duty mower at this point
Weed wacker with a blade attachment for the heavy stuff, regular attachment for rest. Mow it, let it start growing, weed prevention and overseed in fall. The bigger stuff will prob need to be dug out once cut flush.
Leave it as it is.
Id make sure you know what you want to do with it first. That way you know what to prioritize in case it gets to be a bigger job than what you want or can handle.
Scythe
Rent a tractor, plow over it. Re-seed
Think you might have trees of heaven. You do NOT want to chop that down without treating it with herbicide. Look up pics of it to see if that’s what you have. If you’re not sure crush up a couple legs and see if it smells like rancid peanut butter
Depends on what tools you have available and time you want to invest into doing it, if i was limited to a mower, string trimmer and basic hand tools i would go about this in 2 ways, first way, use the trimmer to knock everything down, leave it for an hour or two to dry otherwise the moisture will clog up your mower deck, then do multiple passes over it with the mower, will look sloppy but will knock everything down and chop it up and be easier to manage on the next cut, anything that is too thick for the trimmer use loppers and toss them to the side.
Second way, do everything mentioned above but instead of trimming everything down then mowing over all of it, trim everything rake it all up and take it to a dump site, then mow. That will produce a cleaner end result. Or instead of a dump site rake everything up let it dry and do a burn pile, you would have to toss and stir the pile to get it to dry though otherwise it’ll just decompose, breakdown and be wet and smell
Find a local goat farmer that travels. They bring their herd in, fence them in, 1-2 days later it’ll all be gone and they’ll fertilize your lawn with their poop
If the owner is running, you’re going to want to plot a pursuit angle and run to where they’re going, not where they are. When you get there, lower your shoulder and extend your arms. Make sure you keep driving your feet through the impact and make an attempt to wrap your arms.
As someone who’s done a reclamation project like this before….hire someone. It is so, so, so much more work than you ever imagined. If you insist on DIY rent a large, powerful brush mower/bobcat attachment. If you do it yourself you absolutely WILL be sorry.
PS if you go anywhere near it Google “tick prevention” and “removing tics” so you’re prepared.
Tractor and bush hog
get a strong weed eater. i just had to weed eat a huge lot all of it took awhile but couldn’t mow because so much junk hidden down below the weeds. get some boots, some jeans and some safety glasses and go at it.
Just thinking about the amount of ticks in that makes my skin crawl
Goats
Hear me out….
Flamethrower?
Looks like a great spot for nature. Leave it be.
You’ll be hitting a lot of baby bunnies and other animals learned that the hard way
It looks like there may be a couple of stands of tree of heaven near the front. There is a bit of technique to eliminate them, but now is exactly the right time. I would apply a basal bark treatment of Triclopyr before doing anything else. Once the fall colors start, it will be too late. Otherwise, they will be popping up everywhere like a bad penny. Other than that, you can start a section at a time and plan on it being a multi year project. You will likely be surprised with how many volunteer wildflowers you already have.
i know this isn’t the answer you’re looking for but personally id leave it like that, maybe mow some paths through it, i like the wild look
Yeah, pay someone to clean that up.
Bush hog all the way
Anyone know the SB Mowing guy?
Rev up your commercial mower and let her eat. Low and slow. And if you care about mulching all that growth up, be prepared to go over it about 57 times. You’re gonna be there a while.
Or go rent a bush-hog and knock it out in a laughable amount of time compared to mowing.
We call it….a brush hog!
Seems peaceful and naturalized….leave it as is?
Get the goats,I love watching those goat videos!