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QUESTION:looks like none of these other 'smarties' is going to reply.
My new motto: Let no RMD OT subject die without a reply.
IMHO two acres isn't that much land to require the heavy-duty equipment you
listed.
For maintaining our two acres, I have a 46inch riding mower, push mower,
large weed whipper, small chain saw, hand trimming saw, branch snipers,
shovels, hoe, garden rake, 300 ft of hose, small snow blower, and a self
propelled chipper/shedder /leaf vacuum.
I also have a Kawasaki Mule with a snow plow. I use the Mule a lot in the
yard, but a wheel barrow and/or small trailer for riding mower and heavy
duty snow blower would work just as well.
ANSWER: I agree, the maintenance will not require any special equipment beyond my
riding mower, chainsaw, etc. It's the initial clearing/landscaping that
I'm looking for help in doing.
The yard is really a mess. The undergrowth is very substantial, and in
most places you simply can't get through with hand tools. I cut my
original trails by bashing a big 4wd jeep wagoneer through, and I had to
be selective about where I was able to get through... IOW, I'd keep
hitting different spots at speed and kinda went where the jeep would go.
It was pretty entertaining.
I cleared an area in a weekend a while back, and more recently my neighbor
and I cleared an area of equal size with his tractor & blade in about
15-30 minutes... I've got a limited amount of spare time, and I'd much
rather spend it riding or otherwise playing than working on the yard.
Clearing by hand required 'tunneling' through the poison oak, sticker
bushes, etc. to find the base of a bush/tree, cutting that bush free, then
dragging it out either by hand or with my pickup. It sucked. Using the
tractor with the blade, we just backed right through and ended up with
neat piles of brush. That didn't suck.
I'm thinking that I'll buy a piece of equipment, use it for the
fall/winter and sell it in the spring. I certainly won't need it just to
maintain the yard. I can see getting sucked in by the cool factor of a
tractor and keeping it anyway, but that's not the plan.
After the yard is "done", you're right, that stuff will work - it's all
that I need for maintaining the portion of the yard that's not a mess.
We don't get much in the way of snow, so a plow on the riding mower would
probably work, except that I'm not sure it'd climb my side drive in the
snow. Shoveling it wasn't even that bad, I'm basically just using snow
removal for rationalization.
1st got any friends who work construction?
failing a free/ beer trade for services/equipment
rent a bash vehicle like a skid steer or back-hoe
hydraulics are your friend.... then throw a $100 at
some chemicals to knock down the undergrowth
for maintenance quads are fun & can actually do
some work.
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