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Vegetation Management
Machinery Innovations Now Enable Owners to Handle This Job Like Industry Professionals
By Steve Sniff
It’ s been said that, left alone, nature would reclaim the earth. If you are an acreage owner, you have seen how easy it is for wild( or even planted) vegetation to start taking over your property. Without proper control, trees, grasses and shrubs would encroach on literally every inch of land and render it virtually uninhabitable. So, it is incumbent on all large lot owners to have some kind of vegetation management system in place. Until recently, this type of maintenance was very limited or very difficult and expensive, depending on the type and amount of vegetation on the property. However, innovations in vegetation management machinery in recent years have changed all that.
While your job may seem monumental, imagine the level of responsibility that falls on those with hundreds or thousands of acres in their charge. In addition, when high-tension power lines are involved, the responsibility increases exponentially. Local substations are connected nationwide by over 160,000 miles of high-tension powerlines. The routes these lines follow sometimes take them through heavilywooded areas or spaces dominated by thick shrubbery, grasses, vines and other invasive vegetation. If proper setbacks are not maintained, there is the very real danger that such vegetation will come into contact with powerlines which can, in turn, lead to brush and forest fires as well as extensive power outages.
Tractor-mounted mulching head in action.
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