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Hinge cutting is cutting mostly through the trunk so that the tree falls over when you cut it. Hack and squirt is chopping the bark back with a hatchet and spraying chemicals on the exposed area. The tree will die over time and fall over which produces the same result as hinge cutting with a chainsaw. Obviously hinge is the faster method, but your goals for a specific area can help you determine which method is more beneficial (time vs money vs long term goal).

You can use both methods on gums and pines, but again, your long term goals should dictate how you approach it. If you are mostly talking about wooded areas then I would be careful about indiscriminately hinge cutting. You want lanes for wildlife to walk through and where those lanes start and end matter.

I have some younger guys that do summer work on our place and if there’s nothing else to do I’ll have them grab a chainsaw and hit the woods looking for gums. Instead of hinge cutting I’ll have them lay them down completely and cut the trunks into three sections and leave it. Granted we are mostly talking about small to medium size trees that crop up in the woods.

Hinge cutting is mostly reserved for creating brush and creating lanes to try and funnel wildlife to specific areas. I would do some reading on that specifically before you go at it. Plenty of info out there from state biologists, land management guys, etc.

ETA good article below:

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You have two options here, a quick and more expensive field or a cheap field that gets right in three or so years.

For the quick option you’ll need to pile/burn, root rake, test/treat the soil, and then disc and plant what you want.

For the cheap option you don’t touch it at all, and then burn each winter until the field establishes on its own. The roots in the ground and everything else will slowly burn off each year. Once the field is cuttable grass then you can disc and plant.

No matter which way you do it, you will eventually wind up with the same outcome.

I don’t see 6.5 anywhere. Weird thing is the line keeps moving but yet the majority of the money is on bama.

Michelle Wie

RIP Chelsea’s grilled cheese

Not gonna happen but boy would I love if it did.

1. Live oak
2. Magnolia
3. Red and white oaks
4. Weeping willow
5. Cypress

A downvote huh? Didn’t expect to see that.

Pathetic response is pathetic.

Can you take some pictures of it and email to me? I will make you an offer either way, just depends on how much stuff it is.

Got the same gun basically but a Bennelli super black eagle three with a red dot and a 665 choke. With TSS if you put the dot on the bird he is going down.