I am not from that area but here in central Indiana If you don't mow your pastures at least twice or three time a year the trees will soon take over.
I have a 21' Bushhog batwing and a 15' Woods batwing and my son and I each have 7' mowers for the front of our skid steers.
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JD 4650 with the 21' Bushhog - - - kinda blurry
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This is after two years left alone.
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This is after the 21' made a pass. Lots if sticks that will rot down but the cattle can find the grass now.
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Put one tractor with a batwing in a pasture with a skid steer getting the hard to get areas and we can cover a lot of ground quickly and I feel we come close to doubling the feed value per acre.
The farms in the area that have dropped cattle and removed fences now have very thick woods with hedge apple and locus trees with large thorns that the hunters have a hard time getting thru.
I bought 39 acres covered like that about 10 years ago and took a loader and dozer and cleared in in about 4 days ( shoved up large piles in the gullies and left them to rot down for wildlife habitat ) took a disk to the ground and planted orchard grass and fescue and sweet clover, fertilized it and have great pasture. It is amassing to me that the piles have been there 10 years and are still about 3/4ths the size they were when I pushed them up. I have thought about waiting till right after a good rain and burning a few of them.
I am still amazed that I can mow it three times a year and there will be locus trees an inch in diameter and 5 foot tall between mowings!