Thor Sten

Phil Grady wrote:
also a water feature would help with the wild life in the area.

There is a creek that runs 800 yards along one of the property lines.

Eric Hanson wrote:Thor,

Secondly, are you wanting to convert all 94 acres to pasture?

Thank you for your responses. No, doesn't have to be all pasture at all. We would actually love to let it grow back and use maybe only 20 acres for pasture. I just wasn't sure how long it would take for things to grow back.

Eric Hanson wrote:
Maybe this question is off topic, but do you have a tractor, atv or related vehicle?  Some mechanization would make this task much easier.

No, we would have to buy a tractor once we decide what we want to do.

Hi,
We live in upstate South Carolina and are looking for a nice piece of land that we might share with family eventually. I am always looking for the “most bang for your buck” deals but they naturally always come with problems. I found a property nearby that is 94 acres and has recently been completely clear cut. The upside is that the price is very low compared to “normal” properties but it currently looks like a nuclear bomb went off which is pretty heartbreaking. I love the idea of turning this sad sight into something beautiful again. They only left 5 acres of woods, the rest of the 94 acres is pretty much wasteland at this point. There are leftover trees and branches all over the place and whatever is not covered is dried out clay, which is typical soil around here. There are also big tree stumps all over. My main questions would be.
1. How would you clean up the property, i.e. move remaining branches and small fallen trees?
2. How do you get rid of all the big tree stumps and should you even worry about getting rid of them?
3. How do you grade/level the clay to prep it for starting pasture?
4. How hard would it be to start pasture on clay and what would it entail?
5. What else besides pasture could be done to make this property appealing again?
6. What happens to parts of the property that we wouldn’t do anything to? Will it just grow wild again and how quickly will that happen?
7. How much would all of this cost roughly since I am assuming we would have to hire companies to do these tasks for us?
8. Am I crazy and should we look for something else?

I attached a few pictures I took yesterday.