Best way to clear gorse

[Andymacp]

^^^ I've messaged you mate

[stihlmadasever]

Best way to deal with gorse it get someone else to do it

I find its really easy that way

[Darrin Turnbull]

[treesrus]

when i was a kid, one of my mates set fire to the 5acre gorse we had near us - by the time the fire truck got there, there wasn't much left!

[skc101fc]

Over here in SW Ireland no one ponces about with brushcutters. Just simply get a track digger of any size you wish, but the longer the track the better stability on the mountain sides. As said earlier the roots are very small and light. Roll the bush around a bit to lose ,soil, rocks and more importantly native dormant seed stocks, then pile up and burn carefully. The stuff goes up like rocket fuel.

Our land here was very densely coverred almost

entirely with gorse. We didn't re seed or anything, the grass and wildflower was already there in seed, just waiting for daylight to shoot away. The sheep took any fresh gorse regrowth.

Cutting still leaves quad bike tyre snagging roots and stumps.

[drinksloe]

The digger and grab route or even a bucket sounds the way to go, a lot easier than doing it by hand with saws or brush cutters.

 

Dunno where u are but RGL from moffat used to have 2 decent sized 360's with big mulcher heads on them.

[openspaceman]

The sheep took any fresh gorse regrowth.

Cutting still leaves quad bike tyre snagging roots and stumps.

 

On heathland restoration we would cut it and leave it to dry, then set fire in November, leaving stumps wasn't a problem but regrowth was, sheep, goats and highland cattle would nibble the regrowth while it was soft.

 

On one estate there was a 2 ha plantation still known as furzefied, apparently it was managed as gorse coppice, the gorse bundles being passed through a bruiser to crush the spines and then fed as forage, should be good for protein., the sticks being bundled into faggots and used in brick ovens.

 

It was a chert sandstone which overlay atherfield clay and the spring line between the two formed a carr, we recoppiced this some 65 years after the last coup, you could still see the furrows from the steam winch and the wire cuts on the beech trees on the edges. The estate also had records of sphagnum being taken in the same period for dressing wounds.

 

As both these gorse and alder are legumes you can understand it was also nitrogen deficient.

 

The other thing is gorse seems to germinate well after a fire.

[HertsWood]

Our Irus Deltrak can handle slopes up to 60 degrees..

[Andymacp]

That's a cracking machine !!

Slope isn't the problem on the job it's the rocks.

[gnfencer]

On heathland restoration we would cut it and leave it to dry, then set fire in November, leaving stumps wasn't a problem but regrowth was, sheep, goats and highland cattle would nibble the regrowth while it was soft.

 

On one estate there was a 2 ha plantation still known as furzefied, apparently it was managed as gorse coppice, the gorse bundles being passed through a bruiser to crush the spines and then fed as forage, should be good for protein., the sticks being bundled into faggots and used in brick ovens.

 

It was a chert sandstone which overlay atherfield clay and the spring line between the two formed a carr, we recoppiced this some 65 years after the last coup, you could still see the furrows from the steam winch and the wire cuts on the beech trees on the edges. The estate also had records of sphagnum being taken in the same period for dressing wounds.

 

As both these gorse and alder are legumes you can understand it was also nitrogen deficient.

 

The other thing is gorse seems to germinate well after a fire.

 

Using horse as an animal feed, Christ were they sadistic