{"id":1890,"date":"2010-04-13T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:10:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:10:12","slug":"the-return-of-the-bull-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/13\/the-return-of-the-bull-hog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Bull Hog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I engaged the services of Sutherland, LLC, which owns a Bull Hog machine, to clear thickets of multiflora rose and oriental bittersweet. The thickets were so dense that once they were finished, I really couldn’t see what else needed to be done until the leaves fell last fall. When I visited in November, it was clear to me that there was an area that also needed to be cleared so that downed locust from Hurricane Hugo could be removed. I don’t have pictures of the Bull Hog in operation in that area, because I was busy discussing some work to be done with a surveyor at the time. But I do have pictures of a pile of logging debris that the Bull Hog made short work of. Even though the hourly price has gone up from $100 to $125, the Bull Hog is still a great bargain. It can do in an hour what it would take a person days and days to do. It is truly an amazing piece of machinery!<\/p>\n

This shot is of a pile of logging debris at the end of the driveway:<\/p>\n

\"Logging<\/p>\n

The Bull Hog in action, mulching the debris:<\/p>\n

\"Bull<\/p>\n

And the end result:<\/p>\n

\"Mulched<\/p>\n

The mulched debris will prevent erosion on the slope, also, since it covers the bare ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I engaged the services of Sutherland, LLC, which owns a Bull Hog machine, to clear thickets of multiflora rose and oriental bittersweet. The thickets were so dense that once they were finished, I really couldn’t see what else …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,69,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}