This weekend will be another weekend of cleaning out fence rows as well as getting the chicken coop ready for the new chickens.
Cleaning out fence rows isn’t that bad usually, unless you have a bunch of these multiple rose thickets pictured below.
Best Way For Cleaning Out Fence Rows
There isn’t really a best way to clean Out Fence Rows, unless you was to take a bulldozer and push them all out and start over. In most cases that it very expensive and usually not needed.
What is needed to prevent all of this crap and small trees in your fence rows is called “not allowing them to get this bad”. Most people just don’t care and some don’t know. Even though it is common sense to me, it isn’t to most people.
The ones that have never cleaning out fence rows are usually the ones that just let them go to the point that it often takes a bulldozer to rid the fence of this garbage. These multiple rose bushes will get so bad that you cannot get them out of the fence, and they will also eventually completely ruin the fence.
Here’s a few little secrets mentioned and pictured below once you cut these roses bushes out and rid the fences of small trees.
- Cut the stumps flush with the ground
- Apply Tordon right to those freshly cut stumps and or vine stems
Cutting these right down to the ground will allow you to go over them with mowers and also removes any tripping hazards.
Check out this list below for cleaning out fence rows the cheap and affordable way. It may not be the easiest and most pleasant way, but it the most affordable way.
Tools and items needed cleaning out fence rows:
- Chain saw if stumps are very big
- Hand held cutters
- Good heavy leather gloves
- Long sleeve shirt
- Leather boots
- Jeans
- Safety glasses
- Tordon for applying to stumps when done
- A way to haul off and burn
The double handle cutters/shears I use are made by Fiskar. These work good and are durable. Stihl also makes a really nice lightweight pair. These shears below all have their place, but for what we are doing right now, the long handled shears are the best choice.
Attention: if you choose not to apply Tordon to the stumps, then these all will grow right back. Yes, you are saving money by not purchasing expensive Tordon, but you WILL be coming back and doing it again in a few short years.
I prefer to do the work once and do it right so I don’t have to do it again.
For the heavier work like stumps to large for the shears pictured above, I break out this bad boy pictured below. This Stihl MS 250 has an 18″ bar and is a great all around chainsaw. This saw has incredible power, light and easy to handle, and isn’t to terribly loud.
Get those fence rows cleaned out before they get to far out of hand. Ours has been let go for almost to long. These vines and briars are going everywhere and weaving in and out of the fence woven wire. This makes it hard for cleaning out fence rows.
The worst part of cleaning out the fence rows and getting rid of these multiple rose bushes is very sticky. These things will tear you up! So that’s why I say, jeans, leather boots, leather gloves, long sleeve shirt and safety glasses.
You will like this. “It’s a good workout too!”
Always do your best,
-Mike Pilcher
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