I have a couple of areas of natural re-gen junk that I would like to have cleared and added to my food plots on my family land. Both areas already touch/border current openings. Most have smallish trees, gums, small pines, small oaks etc. But there are also, privet and a mess of green brier. It's basically nasty thick and horrible to drag a deer through as I found out last Friday. I want to clear out another acre or so to both areas. If you were clearing areas, do you prefer dozer work or forestry mulching/hogging in so much as ease of conversion to plots? The largest plot would end up being around 2.75-3 acres and I'd like to start a bean rotation on it. The other is probably going to be grains and clovers.

Seeing you are in West Alabama, give Chris Bowles a call. He has a dozer and mulcher and can tell you what would be your best and cheapest route (not always the same.) He will shoot you straight and knows what he's doing.

https://www.facebook.com/bowlesllc/

IMHO, 100% use a dozer on something like that. The mulcher will leave a lot of the roots underground. Quicker and a lot less per hour cost of operation.

Skid steer or Dozier.

We just had a plot expanded. They guy used a dozer to clear thick, skinny pine trees and brush. He got all of the stumps up too and it was ready to plant. He used a track hoe on the big trees. A track hoe is a powerful machine.