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Started by beenthere, July 04, 2009, 10:33:04 AM

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beenthere

Happy Fourth of July

Been slowly releasing red oak planted mixed with white spruce in 1999. The spruce was every other tree in meandering rows. Now many of the spruce are 25-30' tall and the plan is to remove them. Easiest I've found is to grub them out with the forks on the loader tractor and drag them out.

Here is the stand before removing spruce.


and one during removal


How it looks with red oak left (foreground).


Spruce dragged out of the planting.


The "tool" used for grubbing.


And a shot of the rootball (the dry dirt shook off quite well).
south central Wisconsin
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Norm

That turned out great!

I'll bet those red oaks really start growing now. Are you going to burn the spruce or do you have something planned like chipping them?

630 Tigercat

That looks good.  Id like to do something like that infront of my woodlot.  was the purpose of the spruce to keep the understory down? 

Ron Wenrich

When I was in college, they had a plantation that they worked that way.  They interplanted walnut and Norway spruce.  The thoughts were that the spruce would help push the walnut to grow taller, and would reduce the need for any pruning.  Downside was that there was a high incidence of fusarium canker.
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OneWithWood

Nice tractor, there, beenthere  :)
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