• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Liv Smith
  • Leigh Tate
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin

Electric shredder recommendation for bramble

 
Posts: 43
Location: Pacific Northwest, West of the Cascades. United States
21
3
foraging food preservation medical herbs ungarbage
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I moved on to several acres last fall. One of the challenges this first growing season will be keeping the blackberry bramble at bay. I've been working with loppers to liberate trees by hand. The land has been neglected for several years so the first step is to remove the old growth blackberry bramble that makes up the scaffolding for the new growth. I'm a fan of chop and drop methods, but I'd like to get a dog soon too and keep imagining what a chuck of blackberry vine would do to their foot pads (and mine!). I had the idea of shredding the bramble with an electric shredder/chipper so I've been making separate piles for dried and green canes. I'm caught up in the research stage and can't seem to make any headway. I would love feed back from your own experience. What has or hasn't worked for you? Is there an electric shredder you would recommend?
IMG_20201205_145757292.jpg
And so it begins, the first pile of blackberry bramble. I found trees!
And so it begins, the first pile of blackberry bramble. I found trees!
 
pollinator
Posts: 5347
Location: Bendigo , Australia
477
plumbing earthworks bee building homestead greening the desert
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
There are machines which fit tractors, I think they are called roto mulchers and they eat their way through bramble patches.
It may be worth lookjing at.
\ They are about 4 feet wide from memory.
 
So it takes a day for light to pass through this glass? So this was yesterday's tiny ad?
A rocket mass heater heats your home with one tenth the wood of a conventional wood stove
http://woodheat.net
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic