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Reclaiming land

  • 07-07-2016 8:57am
    #1
    woody84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭


    I'm recently taken over some land roughly 15 acres. It hasn't been touched for 5 or 6 years so needless to say the rushes have really taken over. Plus parts of it has young saplings and briars crawling across the fields from hedge to hedge. So basically I'm looking for some advice. The rushes are way too strong for a topper and if I use a mower I'll be left with swartz of rushes that would probably take forever to rot away. I've been told mulching is my best bet.


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  • #2
    TPF2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭TPF2012


    A decent topper will tackle any sort of rush infestation, as long as you go slow and keep the revs up. Did 20 acres myself during the dry spell in May, rushes 5 feet high, young whin bushes, all sorts. Major topper, kept it in low box for alot of it and kept revs middling high. Now i went through about 10 shear bolts, hitting heights and once when i let the revs drop in a heavy clamp of rush, but a packet costs only about 10 euro.


  • #3
    draiochtanois
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  • #4
    jimini0
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    draiochtanois wrote: »
    Weedlicker then a topper?

    Topper, wait a couple of weeks for regrowth then weedlicker.
    I have 12 acres to do tomorrow. Rushes are only 2-3 foot high. Bag of shear bolts in the tractor just in case.
    I have a friend booked for 3 weeks time to lick them. Then top again in late autumn or early spring


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