This project was undertaken in an effort to remove thousands of elm trees in order to open up the property more for horse pasture usage. A majority of the trees felled were of a diameter small enough to be cut with HRF’s newly purchased tree shear. This shear easily felled trees 14″ in diameter and was successful in felling a few trees approaching 18-20′”.
Due to the sheer numbers of trees involved HRF knew that herbicide application after all trees were felled would be an issue. Wes retrofitted the shear with a custom made spraying system allowing rapid herbicide application to each cut stump immediately after shearing. The system worked phenomenally .
Larger trees were felled using chainsaw and sprayed with a backpack sprayer. All debris was later piled and compacted with the compact track loader coupled with a heavy duty grapple. These piles will dry out over a years time and will be ready for burning next year. This project made a radical transformation to the property and looks great. It was fun to work on and and a successful trial run of the sprayer system Wes developed.