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Brokenarrows new place
Well we got the land, offer was accepted and she sign the papers.
The tree thinning? I should say clear cut and remove ALL timber weather it be by truck or by chipper. After wards I want a machine to come in and grind everything on the ground (I have seen some of these machines that have around a 8 foot carbide toothed what ever you call it tearing up the ground and stumps to about an 8 inch depth
I want around an acre of nothing but grass and a few larger trees. If tose trees fall over,,, so be it  > The plan is to open it up enought to lower the amount of bugs while out back.
Will post pics asap
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brokenarrow,
Congratulations!
We have wide open spaces around our house in three directions for a few hundred yards, about 75 feet in fourth direction. Just how open do you have to get it to stop those bugs?
On the trees, just be sure you don't leave any that could hit the house and let them fall where they may. Well hopefully not on anything else either.
We cleared a lot of trees from 2 inches to 30 inches for our current house. Had the stumps of about 8 inches up ground a few inches below ground level. For about 3 or 4 summers now having fun of filling in those rotting stump holes.
God Bless your site and work there.
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Well not exactly a 'bug net" but there is a 5 million percent difference in the amount of pesky flying critters
on a hot summer day in an open grassy yard than if your walking under the canopy of a forrest.
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Except this year, Arrow. The ticks are so thick in the grass on my property (about 40 acres of the 76 is hay) they'd about carry you away!
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Brokenarrow
Congrats on your deal. Clearing and setting up for landscapeing is a job, but a lot of fun and you can get a great deal of satisfaction from the results. Just an idea, you may want to draw out the area in order to get a feel for what you may need for landscaping after building the house. Trees are money, more money when they are standing.
good luck
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FWIW, in the golf course business, we *never* allow stumps to be ground anywhere that will be 'finished' grass afterwards.
It is only allowed in rough areas, or other "out of play" areas like surplus lands or roadsides.
The problem is the amount of raw wood you are going to grind up and introduce into the soil in a relatively small area around where the stump used to be. Within a few years it all starts to breakdown and decompose. This causes two problems. One, it makes a big change in the soil composition in one small area, the grass will be different, possibly out of balance, if it was a confirous tree, likely *very* acidic. Secondly, all that decomposing material will cause settling as it reduces in volume, and also as the stirred up soil naturally compacts back to it's former level.
Whenever possible we dig out and remove stumps. If you're interested I can probably hook you up with some folks that would come in and take down the trees in exchange for the wood. Then you just need a local contractor with a good sized excavator to yank the stumps. Since you will likely need a driveway & stuff anyways the cost will be minimal to do it all at once.
I'm going to be in your neck of the woods the end of this month, at Oshkosh, let me know if you want some info. or contacts. I know a few in your area.
Best of luck.
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Having done the stump grinding deal and now living with the experience with many stump holes, it does have draw backs. The only way I would want stumps ground would be you can not distrub the area or their rot will be not an issue or such. The chips were removed so that was not an issue.
Finding people here who will cut even fine pines for the wood itself is hard for an acre or so, the demand for clearing is so great.
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Kenneth, I beg to differ, we routinely get people who will come out to pick up as little as just one single tree.
The trick is finding the right people with the right use for the wood.
Best of luck.
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Murf,
I very much understand and a few years ago it was like that here. Now the problem is there is so much of most kinds of constuction work and all it spins off companies are able to totally cherry pick. Move over a county and it is totally different. The demand for tree removal here is large enough and there is not sufficient supply of people who do that type of work and add to that the small saw mills are all out of business now.
Now, it can still be possible to have an individual to cut a tree down for the wood. But it is an individual and not a company. So if there is damage done who pays?
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Kenneth, we have a network of people all across the country we can tap, they are all lic. contrators and fully insured, they are just very small companies who like very small jobs.
I like dealing with owner/operators where possible, I get better service and have less problems.
Best of luck.
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