The mowed area is my niece working on clearing the field so she can have her wedding there next month.
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Thanks Olpea,
It’s not really the land I’m worried about tearing up. It will recover, and I can repair with my little tractor. It’s the communal road leading to the house that isn’t big enough for a lowboy to turn around, and won’t support the weight of a 40,000 lb piece of equipment on steel tracks.
We have local rental places that will rent out big equipment, but They’ll want to park their trailer 1/4 mile up the hill and drive it down the road.
My neighbor drove his 10,000 lb excavator over and pulled out one that was about the median size and gave up on the 2nd which was bigger.
What I’d love to see is one of those huge forestry mulchers come in and just chew everything up like a rototiller to 12" below the surface.
P.S. Those are some solid looking fence supports.
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@murky
They have stump grinder machines you could rent.
Or , drill holes in them and fill with nitrogen fertilizer , will help them rot.
Or fill with potassium nitrate , ( salt Peter ) soak and let dry,
Set on fire ,…burns like a firecracker fuse.
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Here is a comercial product.
I have just bought large bags of potassium nitrate,
A firecracker fuse is essentially … Paper ( wood) soaked in potassium nitrate solution.
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Beautiful!
Thanks Hillbillyhort.
I’ve done one round with the stump grinder and will do round 2 next week.
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Can’t wait to see what it looks like in a few years!
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Heirloom, the cab on your front end loader looks like a ‘bug-eyed Sprite’!
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I’ll bet it looks a lot like an orchard
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I like to look at orchards, what can I say? 
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Me too. I spend a lot of time taking orchard pictures or looking at other people’s orchard pictures.
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Keith, what root stocks have you used and what are your planting spaces?
I’m not exactly sure what that is? lol…
The ones I planted this year are G890 and M7 at 14’ between the rows and 12’ between the trees. I’ve also planted G11, G210, B9, and G30
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You are too young! I grew up with those!
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Thanks so much for the bail out! Am I alone in this?
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No, I think you’re spot on! When I was a kid there was a Bug Eye Sprite for sale up the road and I wanted to buy and restore it.
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An ex manager where I work had one,that he’d drive on sunny days.bb