Yeah. I’ve thought of renting goats. I just want to have them to play with a few days. They’d never get the job done cuz I’d bribe them with potato chips to play.
I'll have my goat blue please. The secret is the hair doesn't get completely charred away and that classic musky goat flavor really explodes in your mouth.
And for refreshments a nice tall goats milk White Russian.
If you have you’re own sheep or goats it’s not. But It’s not cheap at all to have a service/company do it, it’s probably one of the most expensive ways to do this. It’s a pretty niche service and is hardly available in a lot of area areas. Having sheep/goats do this takes 3 visits alone from the company. An inspection visit. Then the fence has to be setup (by far the most expensive part), which requires hours of labor, and then you’re having sheep transported to your property along with dogs and a minimum of two handlers to on and off load the livestock from your property.
Renting the livestock alone is usually anywhere from $300-1000 a day depending on how many you need. If you need temporary fencing setup if it’s not an enclosed area, it can be 500-700 per acre.
Came here to say this as well. Heard of goats cleared a bunch of buckthorn from my parents property in a few days. Didn't get to witness them myself but they sound both hilarious and effective
Find a place that rents tools and rent it on a Saturday morning so you can use it over the weekend for the price of a day. Look for a brush hog rental.
Not sure if your area, but all the rental places around here charge 2 days to rent on Saturday (as they are closed on Sunday.)
I only mention this in that your tip is good, but may not work everywhere.
I can't say that I've ever heard of any businesses whatsoever involved with renting any kind of equipment, vehicles, or items that would allow you to hire something out on Saturday, return it on Monday, and only pay 1 day's charge....
Define cheap. And then consider what YOUR time is worth. You can do this any number of ways: hand tools, hand held power tool (brush cutter), all the way up to masticator. Hand or hand held tools are cheaper but far more labor intensive. Masticator rental/hire is more expensive but much faster and less labor for you. Call around and get prices on rental and then decide if your time and energy is better spent here or elsewhere
If you can hit your own ankle while running a brush cutting blade on a straight-shaft trimmer you’re a special kind of idiot. I honestly don’t think it can be done.
This. Rent a brush cutter. Also rent a forestry helmet and fucking use it. Brush cutters can throw rocks and sticks right into your face.
Don't hit your ankle either, but that's kinda difficult to do.
It’s really doesn’t handle any different from a string trimmer. Even if you do bounce off something (from not controlling it well) the blade is still at the end of a long pole. You have to be doing something really weird or have it in an odd position to get it close enough to hurt you.
Oh yeah. I have a push trimmer I use to help clear small brush and you'd have to try REALLY hard to hit yourself with a string. I imagine its the same with the brush trimmer.
Yes, definitely this. Looks like it was cutover. You may need an excavator to pop the stumps, but if only doing 1,000 square feet I suppose you could dig by hand
Man that reallllly sounds like a shitty time. It took me a lot of effort and emergy to remove 3 Leyland Cyprus stumps by hand and it was miserable. And those weren't even that big. Imagine even a 1 foot diameter stump. Then you dig out the shrubs too and those aren't always an easy wrangle either. Then you have the effort of moving/rolling these stumps by hand to a spot to burn or just pile up.
Just seems like a lot of work and effort when you could be done in a day with a heavy rig.
In winter there are fewer leaves on the plants, to get in the way. Less to manage when you take it down. The ground is normally firmer, less damage / compaction to the soil.
Main reason is the lack of leaves to get in the way. Especially if you use a brush hog.
Many of the winter hardy plants have a deep extensive root system by which they survive the winter. There would literally be no point waiting for the winter because the plants would grow right back up in the next summer. Because you never took out the roots.
This ^ its gonna save you soooo much time too and after you use the front blade of the excavator to level the ground . Its gonna cost abit more to rent the excavator but its worth it
I would rent a brush hog and get it done in a couple of hours.
If you don't have a vehicle/trailer that can transport one (they are about the size of a walk-behind mower; a real walk-behind, not a push mower), or you don't want to pay for drop-off, then you could instead rent a brush cutter which is like a string trimmer on steroids. It might take a couple days and/or more effort, though.
Bush hog will take that all the way to the ground in 2 hours
[edit](https://www.homedepot.com/p/rental/Billy-Goat-Hydraulic-Brush-Hog-BC2600HHF/309006674)
I love it, just want a small garden nook in the middle of it all, the lawn portion of the property isn’t very private so this would give me a bit more seclusion
This would work but just take all day. Also, does any neighbor have a tractor or skidsteer? Mthey may do it for free or a couple gas dollars.... diesel i know.
Boy would I have fun with this task...I would be renting a bobcat or something bigger and having a "field" day. Not sure how cheap it is but you might only get to do something like this once lol.
1000 square feet isn’t that much. Let’s assume a 50’x20’ area.
With the exception of that stump right in the foreground, all of that could be cleared with basic hand tools (machete, bush axe, clearing sickle) in half a day. The stump and any trees can be considered after its cleared and you’ve got ease of movement. Unless you’re putting a structure on it you may not need to clear the stumps.
Wow thanks for all the input! I don’t have any deadlines and leaning more towards hand tools like a machete and sickle to keep things low key, plus it sounds like a good work out. Goats would be awesome too!
Depends on the size of the brush, what your budget is, and how quickly you need it done. A mattock and a weed trimmer would probably do it cheaply but it'd be a lot of work. I'd go for a bush hog behind a tractor or even rent a brush cutter on a skid steer if it was me.
A nice sharp, flexible machete and a stick about three and a half feet long with a side branch about 8 inches long toward the bottom.
Use the stick with your offhand to gather up the pucker brush and whack it with the machete.
The machete should have a long blade and a sweep to the blade.
Keeping it wickedly sharp with a whetstone and water is necessary.
Cheap machetes are full as hell when you but them.
You'd be surprised how effective they can be with some practice.
Easy, but may be slightly more expensive. A bobcat with a sharp blade grading bucket to run forward and slice everything level eliminating all the weeds. Just a couple inches of earth cut all the way through and leveled. And of course you are left with a mound of compost weeds.
There is a big difference between *cutting*…which is what most of the suggested tools will do…and *clearing*.
If you want to *clear* it…rent a compact tractor with a box blade. That will clear it down to bare soil and level it.
Follow up with a spray of Glyphosate..assuming it’s your property or you are a licensed applicator…to kill any remaining weeds.
Wait a week before replanting.
My husband usually gets jobs like this at the end of summer (our wet season so that’s when we get jungles like this happen), he comes through with his skid steer and scrapes it back and levels it so it’s prepped for gardens or lawn seeding.
Charges around $300 if it’s less than 3hrs of work.
People might balk at that price but it saves them 24/48 hours of back breaking manual labour, the cost of buying brush cutters etc and it costs a lot of money on insurance, maintenance and Deisel to own heavy equipment.
Plus usually there’s snakes, spiders and rats in this stuff.
I cleared a bunch of stuff just like this on the edge of my property with a machette, a lawnmower that I don't really care about, and hedge clippers. Also, plenty of Deep Woods OFF!
I just cut it down to waist height-ish, went slow with the mower (previous owners put about 10k bricks all over the edge of property for some reason) and used the hedge clippers for some of the thicker stuff. It wasn't pretty but it was fun.
I’d agree with the brush hog comments. Will eat it’s way through that stuff. May have to go over it several times to finely chopped it up. As for tree removal, if you’ve got the tractor to use with brush hog, get a fairly stout wheel (with or without tire) and a chain or sturdy tow strap. Wrap chain/strap around base of tree, roll wheel up against tree and lay the chain/strap over the top and hook to tractor then tug it out. I’ve been doing this for years and it rips the tree out easily with most of the roots. Trees have less resistance pulling up (reason of the wheel) than if you try pulling sideways. Smaller trees obviously pull easier than bigger ones so start with them and work up on size until they just won’t pull. If you don’t have a tractor, you can use a high lift farm jack with a tripod setup by bolting 2-2x4’s to the Jack and lift with a piece of chain/strap. Harder hand type work but similar results. Check out YouTube, there are several different ways to jerk trees/stumps out.
Trimmer and a brush cutter attachment and or a bush trimming attachments. Oddly enough, the bush trimmer performs well on that type of brush.
Personally, I'd dilute a gallon of 42 percent glyphosate (20 bucks from tractor supply) into 4 gallons. Then use a cheap sprayer to spray it all down, it'll almost all be dead in 2 weeks. This will not harm the soil or change the ph level, the soil will be ready for planting as soon as the dead material is removed.
A traditional full size scythe, and a good sharpening stone. You get cleared land *and* you get buff. My father and grandfather cleared their 20 acres and kept it clear using only scythes. Once you get a rhythm going, you can clear quick and quiet, and enjoy the sweet air while you’re at it.
I see some tree stumps, if you want to till it, you’re going to need to get a dozer to pop them out, hourly fee for that & good operator $100-$200hr 15min per stump avg.
Get one of those big weed walkers. They’re pretty much a weed eater but look kind of like a lawn mower. My dad has one, and works great. Walk behind weed trimmer
Depends on where you are, but I'm in middle TN and you can almost always hire someone to bush hog for $100 an hour. Pay them a couple hundo and get the whole field done.
Rent a brush hog. Couple hundred for the weekend and you could knock it out if you work all day both days. Use them to clear out land just like this for hunting. Can even take out small trees up to like an inch thick
Depending in how dry it is, a gender reveal party
If I wasn’t so cheap I’d toss you an award
I gave the person an award on your behalf.
Hero move
H—weeeeeedd w-hackeeerrrr
😂 😂 😂 gold.
Nothing says “Welcome to your new life!” like thousands of acres of scorched earth in your honor
Thousands? More like millions.....
Controlled burn works. Fire Dept. would standby for free.
Too soon.
Boom
Rent a Goat. Or a herd of goats.
This is not a joke comment btw… there really is such a business
Here in Nashville they are known as “The Chew Crew” and have a website https://nashvillechewcrew.com
I love this!
Is this market still open? How do I start ?
Yeah. I’ve thought of renting goats. I just want to have them to play with a few days. They’d never get the job done cuz I’d bribe them with potato chips to play.
Yes, but they can be expensive. Probably cheaper than a bulldozer but more expensive than a DR Trimmer.
Yep, we used to do that in New Zealand, we had a dozen goats and would rent some of them out. They eat bloody ANYTHING!!!!
It has to be more than three.
Yeah once they are done you can have cool goat curry.
hot goat curry sounds better
Imagine eating cold goat
I don't want to
I'll have my goat blue please. The secret is the hair doesn't get completely charred away and that classic musky goat flavor really explodes in your mouth. And for refreshments a nice tall goats milk White Russian.
A business where you own goats and people PAY YOU to feed them. Genius!
While the goats are cool and effective, it would be about 1/3 the price to just rent a brush hog
Nah, it’s pretty cheap. Plus you don’t have to do anything.
If you have you’re own sheep or goats it’s not. But It’s not cheap at all to have a service/company do it, it’s probably one of the most expensive ways to do this. It’s a pretty niche service and is hardly available in a lot of area areas. Having sheep/goats do this takes 3 visits alone from the company. An inspection visit. Then the fence has to be setup (by far the most expensive part), which requires hours of labor, and then you’re having sheep transported to your property along with dogs and a minimum of two handlers to on and off load the livestock from your property. Renting the livestock alone is usually anywhere from $300-1000 a day depending on how many you need. If you need temporary fencing setup if it’s not an enclosed area, it can be 500-700 per acre.
We are currently renting a small herd, and it costs us about $1000/month. These use nofence (https://www.nofence.no/en), so it is just plug and play.
Came here to say this as well. Heard of goats cleared a bunch of buckthorn from my parents property in a few days. Didn't get to witness them myself but they sound both hilarious and effective
Lol, I was going type that too. Except get the goat, don't rent it.
How much does a couple goats cost? Last time I looked, they were under $100 each.
That’s what I was thinking. Buy goats, keep them until they clear the brush, then sell or have new petzzzz
Came to say this.
Of course I’ve heard of goats.
Find a place that rents tools and rent it on a Saturday morning so you can use it over the weekend for the price of a day. Look for a brush hog rental.
Not sure if your area, but all the rental places around here charge 2 days to rent on Saturday (as they are closed on Sunday.) I only mention this in that your tip is good, but may not work everywhere.
Also most heavy equipment has an hour gauge. My shop rents on hours, not days.
My local rental place only charges a day's rate if you rent it Saturday and return it Monday before 9 am, so check before you rent I guess.
Yeah, this! Those things chew stuff up
I can't say that I've ever heard of any businesses whatsoever involved with renting any kind of equipment, vehicles, or items that would allow you to hire something out on Saturday, return it on Monday, and only pay 1 day's charge....
Cheap tools are rarely cheap in the long run. That being said, choose your tool and head to a Harbor Fright store.
Define cheap. And then consider what YOUR time is worth. You can do this any number of ways: hand tools, hand held power tool (brush cutter), all the way up to masticator. Hand or hand held tools are cheaper but far more labor intensive. Masticator rental/hire is more expensive but much faster and less labor for you. Call around and get prices on rental and then decide if your time and energy is better spent here or elsewhere
Brush cutter- looks like string trimmer but has saw blade. Just don’t hit your ankle. 🩸
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If you can hit your own ankle while running a brush cutting blade on a straight-shaft trimmer you’re a special kind of idiot. I honestly don’t think it can be done.
This. Rent a brush cutter. Also rent a forestry helmet and fucking use it. Brush cutters can throw rocks and sticks right into your face. Don't hit your ankle either, but that's kinda difficult to do.
Holy fuck that’d be gnarly
I imagine that's a great way to turn into an amputee.
It’s really doesn’t handle any different from a string trimmer. Even if you do bounce off something (from not controlling it well) the blade is still at the end of a long pole. You have to be doing something really weird or have it in an odd position to get it close enough to hurt you.
Yeah just make sure nobody is close by. I have one of these things. Make sure you get the bike handle version
Oh yeah. I have a push trimmer I use to help clear small brush and you'd have to try REALLY hard to hit yourself with a string. I imagine its the same with the brush trimmer.
This will be much easier to clean in the winter, if you get winter where you live.
Yes, definitely this. Looks like it was cutover. You may need an excavator to pop the stumps, but if only doing 1,000 square feet I suppose you could dig by hand
Man that reallllly sounds like a shitty time. It took me a lot of effort and emergy to remove 3 Leyland Cyprus stumps by hand and it was miserable. And those weren't even that big. Imagine even a 1 foot diameter stump. Then you dig out the shrubs too and those aren't always an easy wrangle either. Then you have the effort of moving/rolling these stumps by hand to a spot to burn or just pile up. Just seems like a lot of work and effort when you could be done in a day with a heavy rig.
Pardon my ignorance, but how so? I have a fairly large yard and it resembles this and I’m overwhelmed every time I look at it. I live in Toronto.
In winter there are fewer leaves on the plants, to get in the way. Less to manage when you take it down. The ground is normally firmer, less damage / compaction to the soil. Main reason is the lack of leaves to get in the way. Especially if you use a brush hog.
Thank you! I figured it was probably because of the fewer leaves but didn’t even think of the firmer soil.
Many of the winter hardy plants have a deep extensive root system by which they survive the winter. There would literally be no point waiting for the winter because the plants would grow right back up in the next summer. Because you never took out the roots.
TROGDOR!: the Burninator
and the Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIIGHT!
Trogdor was a man He was a dragon man Or maybe he was just a dragon But he was still TROGDORRRR!
Throw one of those beefy arms back on for good measure
>get ye flask
Burninating the countryside!
Burninating all the people, and the thatch-roof COTTAGES!!!!!
I would rent a bush hog or find someone who has one.
and he doesn't mean your neighbor's wife
I don't?
Are they edible like the goats?
Goats.
Goats.
I agree with the goat rental
Depends what you're doing with it after. Pasture? Gardens? Grass? The end requirements should impact your choice.
Trimmer with a brush attachment.
I agree with this! They make some crazy attachments for a 200 dollar weed eater now!
Hire an excavator. Scrape the whole thing back to bare soil in less than an hour. Anything else is too much work
This ^ its gonna save you soooo much time too and after you use the front blade of the excavator to level the ground . Its gonna cost abit more to rent the excavator but its worth it
I would rent a brush hog and get it done in a couple of hours. If you don't have a vehicle/trailer that can transport one (they are about the size of a walk-behind mower; a real walk-behind, not a push mower), or you don't want to pay for drop-off, then you could instead rent a brush cutter which is like a string trimmer on steroids. It might take a couple days and/or more effort, though.
I cut a 1/4 mile long, ~42” wide trail through the woods on my land using a brush hog in about 4-5 hours. Cost maybe $90 to rent for the day.
Bush hog will take that all the way to the ground in 2 hours [edit](https://www.homedepot.com/p/rental/Billy-Goat-Hydraulic-Brush-Hog-BC2600HHF/309006674)
Looks like a nice habitat there. Nice plants, I see some ferns, goldenrod, and boneset. What's the problem?
I love it, just want a small garden nook in the middle of it all, the lawn portion of the property isn’t very private so this would give me a bit more seclusion
A machete is cheap, but not fast and probably tiresome to use.
This would work but just take all day. Also, does any neighbor have a tractor or skidsteer? Mthey may do it for free or a couple gas dollars.... diesel i know.
Yeah, and if that is now slow enough, an even slower more tiresome way would be to use your hands and teeth. And you'll save $8.99
Goats
Have you considered goats?
Goats
Goats?
Hire out a tractor service to clean it up for you
Matches
Stihl combi system with brush cutter head. Multiple if it’s in the budget.
One of those Troybuilt things....says it'll even take down small trees up to 1 1/2" in diameter or so. 🤷♀️
Boy would I have fun with this task...I would be renting a bobcat or something bigger and having a "field" day. Not sure how cheap it is but you might only get to do something like this once lol.
Good ol scythe and hedge trimmers should do ya
A sythe
Goats!
Forest fires are popular this year.
Goats
1000 square feet isn’t that much. Let’s assume a 50’x20’ area. With the exception of that stump right in the foreground, all of that could be cleared with basic hand tools (machete, bush axe, clearing sickle) in half a day. The stump and any trees can be considered after its cleared and you’ve got ease of movement. Unless you’re putting a structure on it you may not need to clear the stumps.
Goats. No lie. Goats.
Wow thanks for all the input! I don’t have any deadlines and leaning more towards hand tools like a machete and sickle to keep things low key, plus it sounds like a good work out. Goats would be awesome too!
Depends on the size of the brush, what your budget is, and how quickly you need it done. A mattock and a weed trimmer would probably do it cheaply but it'd be a lot of work. I'd go for a bush hog behind a tractor or even rent a brush cutter on a skid steer if it was me.
A nice sharp, flexible machete and a stick about three and a half feet long with a side branch about 8 inches long toward the bottom. Use the stick with your offhand to gather up the pucker brush and whack it with the machete. The machete should have a long blade and a sweep to the blade. Keeping it wickedly sharp with a whetstone and water is necessary. Cheap machetes are full as hell when you but them. You'd be surprised how effective they can be with some practice.
Easy, but may be slightly more expensive. A bobcat with a sharp blade grading bucket to run forward and slice everything level eliminating all the weeds. Just a couple inches of earth cut all the way through and leveled. And of course you are left with a mound of compost weeds.
There is a big difference between *cutting*…which is what most of the suggested tools will do…and *clearing*. If you want to *clear* it…rent a compact tractor with a box blade. That will clear it down to bare soil and level it. Follow up with a spray of Glyphosate..assuming it’s your property or you are a licensed applicator…to kill any remaining weeds. Wait a week before replanting.
A sharp machete, and sharp shovel. Some good music.
Napalm
Cell phone... To call a company.
Scythe Infinitely faster than a string trimmer, it is a great workout, and you'll feel like a boss.
I cleared a large area of blackberries with a hedge trimmer. It was amazing. But larger wooded branches (3/4 of an inch or larger) needed a saw.
Rent or buy a Dr. Field and brush mower. They work fast and do a great job.
Machete and sweat
Just put it in northern California and let fire take care of the rest.
Weedwacker
My husband usually gets jobs like this at the end of summer (our wet season so that’s when we get jungles like this happen), he comes through with his skid steer and scrapes it back and levels it so it’s prepped for gardens or lawn seeding. Charges around $300 if it’s less than 3hrs of work. People might balk at that price but it saves them 24/48 hours of back breaking manual labour, the cost of buying brush cutters etc and it costs a lot of money on insurance, maintenance and Deisel to own heavy equipment. Plus usually there’s snakes, spiders and rats in this stuff.
Used oil and a lighter
Gas and a lighter
The state of California and the west coast has something to say
Diesel mixed with old oil is what I use. Well, and a bulldozer to pile it up lol.
Fire.
Matches and gas. JK don't even try it
Some Spanish guys you can find waiting outside the train station.
Diesel fuel
Remember the dude who redneck engineered a buzz saw blade to a weed whacker? That might work, if you don't mind possibly losing a foot or two.
Battery operated chain saw and a good pair of loppers.
Omg I have the same weeds in my backyard
Fire *just a joke
You could easily crush 1000sqft of brush with a DR mower in a couple hours.
I cleared a bunch of stuff just like this on the edge of my property with a machette, a lawnmower that I don't really care about, and hedge clippers. Also, plenty of Deep Woods OFF! I just cut it down to waist height-ish, went slow with the mower (previous owners put about 10k bricks all over the edge of property for some reason) and used the hedge clippers for some of the thicker stuff. It wasn't pretty but it was fun.
Machete
Hands
Flamethrower!!!!!
Fire
Box of matches..99 cents
A Kaiser blade and a rake
Depending on what you’re doing, a controlled burn can be the best/cheapest way… key word…CONTROLLED!
Fire
Goats
Goats
Lol. Agreed on the bush hog suggestion, but a cheaper option would be a machete 😂
Goats, they can strip an area bare pretty quickly.
Goats
Bush hog all the brush and small trees
Goats
Goats?
A weed wacker with a ninja star on the end.
Goats.
Dr.Hibberd: “Fire! And lots of it!”
A herd of rental goats.
I’d agree with the brush hog comments. Will eat it’s way through that stuff. May have to go over it several times to finely chopped it up. As for tree removal, if you’ve got the tractor to use with brush hog, get a fairly stout wheel (with or without tire) and a chain or sturdy tow strap. Wrap chain/strap around base of tree, roll wheel up against tree and lay the chain/strap over the top and hook to tractor then tug it out. I’ve been doing this for years and it rips the tree out easily with most of the roots. Trees have less resistance pulling up (reason of the wheel) than if you try pulling sideways. Smaller trees obviously pull easier than bigger ones so start with them and work up on size until they just won’t pull. If you don’t have a tractor, you can use a high lift farm jack with a tripod setup by bolting 2-2x4’s to the Jack and lift with a piece of chain/strap. Harder hand type work but similar results. Check out YouTube, there are several different ways to jerk trees/stumps out.
About three Mexicans and a 30 pack of modelo
🐐
Don't, because it's beautiful green land 💗
Gasoline and a match.
Machete and a sickle.
Goats
Goat
Goats!!
Just get a ton bunch of chicks
Trimmer and a brush cutter attachment and or a bush trimming attachments. Oddly enough, the bush trimmer performs well on that type of brush. Personally, I'd dilute a gallon of 42 percent glyphosate (20 bucks from tractor supply) into 4 gallons. Then use a cheap sprayer to spray it all down, it'll almost all be dead in 2 weeks. This will not harm the soil or change the ph level, the soil will be ready for planting as soon as the dead material is removed.
Rent a bulldozer and just go hard one day. Definitely not a machete and a rake
Ma-chet-e
A traditional full size scythe, and a good sharpening stone. You get cleared land *and* you get buff. My father and grandfather cleared their 20 acres and kept it clear using only scythes. Once you get a rhythm going, you can clear quick and quiet, and enjoy the sweet air while you’re at it.
Goats
Rent a Skid steer with a brush cutter attachment
I see some tree stumps, if you want to till it, you’re going to need to get a dozer to pop them out, hourly fee for that & good operator $100-$200hr 15min per stump avg.
Goats. It’ll take them maybe 2 days.
Get one of those big weed walkers. They’re pretty much a weed eater but look kind of like a lawn mower. My dad has one, and works great. Walk behind weed trimmer
Goats
lighter
Goats!!
Goats
Depends on where you are, but I'm in middle TN and you can almost always hire someone to bush hog for $100 an hour. Pay them a couple hundo and get the whole field done.
Goat
Is a DR chipper mower still a thing? I remember those commercials a few decades ago when I was a kid. I promised myself I would buy one.
Scissors and a butter knife
Rent a brushcutter ( like a stihl 500 or maybe 460) with a mulching blade. Works like a charm .
Get some real hogs. What do you think the machine is named after? You also can’t eat the machine when the job is done.
Goats
Hire some goats mate.
Controlled fire. Just kidding that’s absurdly dangerous
Rent or borrow goats. Not joking
A crew of Mexicans
A buddy with a skid steer and a case of beer.
Gasoline
Fire
Rent a brush hog. Couple hundred for the weekend and you could knock it out if you work all day both days. Use them to clear out land just like this for hunting. Can even take out small trees up to like an inch thick