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And just FYI...I cut 1000 yards of trail in 3 Saturdays in January.

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Pinetag,

I cannot make out the brand of your brush cutter. Can you give us the make & the model?

Thanks
 
Pinetag,

I cannot make out the brand of your brush cutter. Can you give us the make & the model?

Thanks
It's a Troy-Bilt weed eater and the brushcutter blade is made by Makita I believe.

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And apparently you are happy with it...

Thank you
It gets the job done for sure. Any brand weed eater should do fine but I would upgrade the stock brushcutter attachment for the circular blade style. The stock, multi-pronged blades that come standard just hack through the saplings and brush like a machete. I would not want those rough/sharp edges sticking up where my 4 wheeler tires go. DO NOT use a regular circular saw blade though as the metal is thin and I've heard people say the teeth will break off and go flying at such high rpm's.

I don't have any close up photos but all of the saplings I cut are flush with the ground, which makes for much nicer walking and riding.

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It gets the job done for sure. Any brand weed eater should do fine but I would upgrade the stock brushcutter attachment for the circular blade style. The stock, multi-pronged blades that come standard just hack through the saplings and brush like a machete. I would not want those rough/sharp edges sticking up where my 4 wheeler tires go. DO NOT use a regular circular saw blade though as the metal is thin and I've heard people say the teeth will break off and go flying at such high rpm's.

I don't have any close up photos but all of the saplings I cut are flush with the ground, which makes for much nicer walking and riding.

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May have to get me one of those. Always hated the tri-prong blades, they do hack things up. Good to hear that the circular blade works good for you.


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Ok...I hear several of you saying a fence won’t stop poachers but that has not been my experience. A good tight 4 or 5 strand, 4 prong, high tensile fence with a post every 10’ and the screw down fence stays between every post will definitely deter poachers and other unwanted things. When we first bought our place it never had a fence at all on 3 sides and it had a poor fence on the 1 side it was fenced because the landowner on that side had cattle. As poor as that fence was it kept cattle out except when they would get through on a side fence and then just walk around to one of our unfenced sides and come in that way. Also there were human trails into our place from every side except the 1 that had a fence. These trails were used by the neighbors and their dogs. We surveyed, dozed a fence row and fenced immediately and other than having a single lock cut the first week on a gate I put up on the road and 2 of the neighbor kids sneaking over to see what a bulldozer was doing I have had zero issues. Our property has a county road running through a portion of it and we dozed a fence row and I had the dozer operator make a long dozer pile on our side behind the cleared fence row and then I had him go on the other side of that dozer row and make me a road so he pushed everything up from the other side into that dozer row too creating a total visual and physical access blockade. I then fenced it and planted loblolly pines all the way down the Row in a staggered fashion. This created the exact result I desired. Nobody can see in at all and I use that road to access all my jump off points for stands near my south plot. After the fact I even did hinge cutting along my road so I have 4 layers of security from the road. When we bought the place once the leaves would drop you could have seen a deer 100 yards through the trees. Now you can’t see past my fence...

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Now...

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On our lease the former holders had made an ATV sized east west trail on the inside of the fence line along the dirt road.

I cleared it open again and have mowed it twice.

It gives me quick access to both sides of the property and the stands that are there. I have another trail I made from one stand back to the main road that runs through the property north to south. Eventually I will make another from the other stand as well.

We also have two stands at the end of the center trail. As of yet I have not figured out how to make circle trails due to the thick swamps.

I believe in maintaining trails to walk quietly on.
 
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