E39: Controlling Sericea Lespedeza on the Habitat Oasis Project makes for some relaxing tractor time
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Getting in some tractor time as I spray invasive Sericea Lespedeza on the Habitat Oasis Project. Great to get outside for a few hours.
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I'm always getting into something outdoors and would love to have you follow along.
Join me as I get outdoors with the #JohnDeere1025R and #JohnDeere4052R to do #habitatmanagement and plant #foodplots for #whitetaildeer and #wildturkeys. I have a newer #polebarn that has lots of projects going on inside of it and when I get to relax I will #hike, #hunt, #fish and do all kinds of other things.
Just a man, his tractor, and the great outdoors.
Keep up the great work brother.
Thanks Andy! It was a good day for sure!
you are a cool dude thanks for the info
Thanks! Glad it was helpful.
I try to give you a thumbs up but it doesn't register. Keep up the GREAT work!
Thanks Dusty!
I inherited a large family farm that has been "wilding" for 40 years and we're covered with autumn olive everywhere. As a test, we used our John Deere 50D excavator with a 4' brush hog to knock some of it down and we'll brush hog it for several seasons to keep it down before we resort to chemicals. May even disk and plant clover or some other cover variety to keep the deer fat :D
This video came in handy for us! Thanks for making and a great video!
Glad it was helpful. I’m planning an autumn olive video as well. We have probably work 50+ acres to reduce the autumn olive. Some field and some in the woods. Keep fighting the good fight!
@@HardyLifeOutdoors So I just got out of the woods and tried a different tactic with these damn autumn olives even though it's summer (June 16). The week rental with the brush hog on the excavator expired but we have a John Deere 5055E 4 wheel drive tractor with a 520M loader which both are pretty beefy. I realized that after some trial and error, I can pop the root bulb of these things out of the ground pretty simply and consistently... then push them all into a pile to be dealt with later and drag them to a burn pile. I can't convey how happy I am that I didn't need to chem or buy another piece of equipment to deal with these things at this point!!
If you're interested in more details, let me know. I may try to put up a video showing the tractor technique.
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That is one of the techniques we have used. Definitely works well with a larger tractor.
A few learnings from that. Be careful to keep the broken material in front of you. We have put sticks through the radiator and ripped hydraulic hoses off the tractors. Just need to be aware of what’s sticking up.
Don’t pile your brush piles on top of an area where there was an autumn olive bush. The roots will grow a bush back and it will come up through your brush pile where it is hard to get at
Popping them out will remove the large plant but there will still be a living root system in the ground that will resprout. If you spray them right away with glyphosate you will reduce grow back. Those that do grow back and can later be bush hogged or sprayed.
We have used the USDA EQIP program to help with removal. They paid us around $150 an acre for removal and $25 per brush pile that we created. We were able to recoup around $800 for one 3 acre area we cleared.
Good luck and keep at it. Take pictures, it’s nice to be able to see the before and after, especially when you feel like you aren’t making a difference.
@@HardyLifeOutdoors Wow! Thats excellent info regarding the USDA program! We're in western WV (Ohio Valley area - not too far from you) so we may also qualify for that program. Which USDA initiative would this project fall under?
Great insight regarding the tractoring technique. You definitely have to keep the brush IN FRONT of the tractor as much as possible and clean up your immediate work area of other saplings and such that are more than happy to take out hoses and wiring (ask me how I know!)
Our property is a lot of acreage and since the tractor will see a lot of time in the woods and brush doing this type of work, I have to upgrade the protection on the tractor and operator station or else the tractor will get damaged and I was at risk when in certain areas. We have massive mature vines (as big as your upper arm) that have grown out of the autumn olive (and other small trees) up into mature timber and trees that pose a hazard when pushing the brush around when the vines are tangled above and tug on the overhead limbs. Those vines are tough!! As such, I'm seriously considering a package from this outfit: www.grtractors.com/productpages/agriculturaltractorpages/agriculturaltractor (if the link doesn't post, search for grtractors.com - agricultural tractors.
A John Deere 333G high flow skid steer (similar to what is shown @ 4:16 in your video) is in our future but we don't have it yet but will make much quicker work of these buggers. 🍻
If you buy one of those, I’ll be watching your CZcams channel!
Eqip programs are brush management for covering autumn olive and if I recall correctly habitat for wildlife covers the brush piles. They were reluctant to do the brush piles but I told them I wouldn’t do the brush management with out it.