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Identify Vegetation and Maintenance Goals

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Putting a Milwaukee brush cutter to the test around the pond

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The presenter explains the specific types of vegetation to be cleared, including dog fennel, briars, and small willow saplings, noting that dog fennel has a woody stem. He also highlights the challenges of maintaining pond banks, mentioning that cows, while good at grazing, avoid these woody weeds. He explains his goal to clear the brush to allow the cows to graze, naturally slop the embankment, and ultimately make the area easier to maintain with a tractor in the future, avoiding the need for weed whacking.

Goal: Understand the types of weeds and the long-term land management strategy for the pond banks.

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lands a little bit beat up I'm trying to landscape the banks of this Pond and the cows have done a fantastic job over here but they're not touching it over here because there's so many weeds in the way so we're going to clear this off let the cows come in here and put a little pressure on the land so that the embankment kind of slopes down and that way I can just mow it with the ventrac tractor instead of having to come out here and weed whack it we want to make it easy for us easy low maintenance so what we have here are several different types of weeds and this is the main culprit here on the pharmacist called dog fennel and if you look dog fennel is a woody stemmed leave you hear it kind of break off a woody stemmed weed and that's basically what's taken over we've got a couple Briars or brambles or blackberries over here and some saplings you never want a sapling growing on your pond down you don't want weeds growing up against your pond but this also makes great habitat for frogs and Wildlife too so if we walk on over here you'll see all the various little weeds that we need to get and we also have some little Willow saplings that have to be trimmed up and we're just going to go to it and show you guys what it does and after I get done I'll talk to you about what this tool will do and what it won't do so every tool has its own little nuances I want you to be an informed consumer so if you decide to buy this we're going to give it an honest review that was my deal with Milwaukee if you send it out I'm going to be honest here's a part of this tool that I failed to mention so it comes with a Milwaukee harness this harness is designed to make it easy to carry that heavy tool and it's not that heavy if you're only going to run it for about five minutes I'd say don't worry about this however this is an all-day tool for a pro guy that's what fuel

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