Cutting really high grass with help from A-60 grader blade

[inairam]

This is the first time in 15-20 years I was able to get to cut this part of the property. From walking it in the winter I knew there were a lot of down trees and flood debris and some large rocks

I decided to put my A-60 grader blade on to protect the front and to help if I ran into a log. It worked great. I got into a tight area that had a lot of logs. With with mower, I was not able to back up much so I dropped the blade to just off the ground and was able to push the logs out of the way.

This reed grass was very intimidating. I was cutting from the edge. After a while, the blade gave me some confidence to do a few totally blind passes with reeds on three sides.

I have had this Woods 60-4 for several years but this is the first season I worked on it and got it ready to cut. I got it for this part of the properity.

[R.D.Owens]

Very clever. Great idea and looks like it worked well.

[Don McCombs]

Looks like phragmites.

[inairam]

I will try to identify it. I just look it up and phragmites It is nonnative and considered invasive.

[ajhbike]

I have the phrags all around the perimeter of my yard near the salt marsh...They are incredibly difficult to keep in check...They seem to send out roots that shoot up a new reed constantly. I can mow and they will send up more shoots within 2 weeks. That is a nice hogger...I have the 6 foot Cadet version and it is a beast.

[inairam]

My wife and I have been working on removing nonnatives at our home and I have been working on it on my family property.

Phragmites are considered invasive and have a rhizome system like other grasses and bamboo. I have read repeat cutting over time will reduce them.

[Don McCombs]

Mechanical methods do not work. Use glyphosate. But, don’t tell the EPA I said that.

[SamsFarm]

Mechanical methods do not work.

I would not say that!

I had a big area of that stuff when I bought my land.
After deciding to plant vegetables in that area, each time I would plow, the roots would get exposed, and I would pick them out and burn them.

After a few years of that it was gone.

Must have been some late bloomin seeds because the past few years I notice a few stalks pushing up, but now I am haying that area and it gets cut and baled up!

On a side note, I got another area (never done anything to get rid of it) where the stuff grows out back that I cut and bale, and the cows go crazy, they love eating that stuff!

[ajhbike]

I have been mowing the same strip of them for 30 years. I doesn't help when the strip gets salted every 2 months or

[SamsFarm]

Salting makes them taste better!

every 2 months or

Or?

[SONNY]

gly. will smoke them!! 4 oz per gallon and go! Might have to repeat on tuff stuff but stay on it and you will win.

[Indy4570]

I have poison hemlock I am trying to control. I keep on whacking it down

love that front blade, is it specific to a 140/A?

[inairam]

love that front blade, is it specific to a 140/A?

Yes it is an A-60 blade for the A-140 series of IH tractors.

I also have a lot of poison hemlock this year. We had a very mild winter I wonder if that is why.