Tree removal

Anyone who does not marvel at the amount of cleared land on earth has never spent several hours on several weekends attempting to remove trees from the ground. Trees have nothing to do all day except grow and they dont like to leave the earth easily. That being said, man prevailed once again over tree and we are left with a large plot of cleared land that will be the site of our first planting.

The plot is approximately several thousand square feet that will be divided into four rows of 15 plants each.

The problem of novices with little equipment removing trees is that the ground is left with root upon root upon root. The hope is that these will eventually just wither away and die, but for the time being they stick up out of the ground like hundreds of whiskers.

A technique that has proven somewhat effective for removing some of the roots is to rake the plot with the rake attachement on the John Deere tractor. The rake attachment can be lowered to sink the teeth a few inches into the ground and some of the surface roots are easily removed with a few passes of the tractor. The frustrating part is that the more passes you make, the more roots that are uncovered and the process starts all over again.

Mother nature work your magic on roots!