Don Ray@donray@mastodon.online
@lfisk@infosec.exchange
County road maintenance (even county blacktops) has really gone downhill in the last 25 years. Mostly 1 mowing per year. This roadside will have quite a bit of vegetation that will stay there all winter (bad for seeing deer). Teasel is a problem, and the county roadsides are producing quite a few seeds.
lfisk@lfisk@infosec.exchange
@donray@mastodon.online Ours are normally hogged twice a year plus the "*mangler" maybe in early spring. In the old days they used lightweight tractors with sickle bars. Those would cut off offending plants without knocking their seeds all over.
The latest tractor I saw weighs 6 tons, 130 hp running a 10 ft hog on the back plus maybe 5 ft hydraulic side hog. It crushes the shoulder of the road where wheels run in the ditch and makes deep ruts if its wet...
* Tractor with Boom Brush Hog. They reach way up into trees alongside the road with this machine and hack (mangle) branches sticking out into the right-of-way😑
https://www.colvoy.com/tiger/boom-mowers/tiger-mowers-bengal-boom-mower.php