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Good article on hinge cutting
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<blockquote data-quote="JCDEERMAN" data-source="post: 4850908" data-attributes="member: 5787"><p>You will still have fairly quick cover using H&S depending on when you do it - there won't be any foliage on the trees, therefore sunlight will be hitting the ground creating native browse and grasses. As far as not knowing when the trees will fall, that <em>could</em> be a concern, but very unlikely. I do this in areas that are created for sanctuaries / and the trees I treat are no bigger than my thigh (mostly in areas we have select cut in the past). </p><p></p><p>I just passed my online course to become a TN prescribed fire burn manager - will take the field work course at the end of February. It will be interesting to see what trees the fire will kill effectively and what I will have to treat H&S. Another reason for me using H&S and not hinge-cutting - There will be constant fuel in these burn areas if I continue to hinge-cut what the fire doesn't kill every couple years. By H&S, one time treatment after a fire (the ones the fire doesn't kill), those trees will die and fall given a couple years, then I will go back and burn around year 3 or 4, burn up all the fuel.....and I am left with nothing but grasses and forbs......White and Red oaks every 15-20 yards apart dropping acorns, and nothing but native grasses underneath. Food/Cover......I won't enter these areas unless to retrieve a deer - about 100 acres in total (9 areas)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JCDEERMAN, post: 4850908, member: 5787"] You will still have fairly quick cover using H&S depending on when you do it - there won't be any foliage on the trees, therefore sunlight will be hitting the ground creating native browse and grasses. As far as not knowing when the trees will fall, that [i]could[/i] be a concern, but very unlikely. I do this in areas that are created for sanctuaries / and the trees I treat are no bigger than my thigh (mostly in areas we have select cut in the past). I just passed my online course to become a TN prescribed fire burn manager - will take the field work course at the end of February. It will be interesting to see what trees the fire will kill effectively and what I will have to treat H&S. Another reason for me using H&S and not hinge-cutting - There will be constant fuel in these burn areas if I continue to hinge-cut what the fire doesn't kill every couple years. By H&S, one time treatment after a fire (the ones the fire doesn't kill), those trees will die and fall given a couple years, then I will go back and burn around year 3 or 4, burn up all the fuel.....and I am left with nothing but grasses and forbs......White and Red oaks every 15-20 yards apart dropping acorns, and nothing but native grasses underneath. Food/Cover......I won't enter these areas unless to retrieve a deer - about 100 acres in total (9 areas) [/QUOTE]
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