Harvest Timber Strategically for Stump Suppression

have replanted all right you might have seen this kind of land on the side of the freeway or on the side of the highway or just out in the country this is what we call a cut over and this has been cut over in other words we cut all the trees we totally clear-cut this area leaving a few select trees for the wildlife we left some white oaks and we left some hickories up here on the top of the hill all this land is going to be cleared very soon this will all be cleared off it'll be about another 25 to 30 acres in addition to our farm and we're waiting a couple years for the stumps to rot in the ground and that way they can easily be pulled out piled up and burnt now this is not the ideal thing this is not what you want on your farm you don't want cut overs you want to cut your timber and you want to go back in and replant we're going to talk a little bit about the cost to replant and or the cost of spraying prior to replanting and there is some science behind when you need to cut your timber so that you don't have to spray chemicals on your newly cut areas in order to replant your trees so let's go over to a place where we've got some trees planted and they're not very tall they're not very big but they'll get bigger and we'll keep updating the channel year after year but we're gonna right over the other side of the farm real quick and we'll show you the 25 acres that we planted you know what I think we need to stop here so I can talk to you about what we're doing here too so where we are right now this is what the cutover looks like once it's been cleared and stumped so this is probably about a two and a half acre little section of land right here that we've got a smooth back over in the spring we've got the tr3 rake we're going to smooth this all over subscribe to the channel you get to see all that stuff in action how we see that everything that we do to take this land which looked exactly like where we just were so this is going to be a beautiful rolling pasture right here where it used to be a cut over nasty mess now another good point to make you see all these big trees right here these are all big hardwood trees and the reason we left those big hardwood trees behind is because I may want some lumber for myself so when you cut your farm don't clear cut your farm totally because you may want some timber for yourself for projects are for building your own house good stuff let's go look at the pine trees