[cyclotic]

showoff.

I could probably do my lawn in two passes with that setup.

There’s a house a few miles from us that has about 20 acres of lawn. I can’t imagine the crew it requires to cut it.

[woodbutcher1963]

I have 12 acres. Which is the reason why we bought this property 11 years ago. However, it was completely forested when we purchased it. There were 2-3 foot diameter White Pines, Red Oaks and Red Maple trees with 15 feet of the house. The roof was covered with moss. The house had drainage issues too. Even though it sat on a hill 35’ above the road.

So, the year after we bought it I hired a logging company that cut for a week. We ended up clearing about 2 acres. Now, the closest tree is a Red Maple about 35’ from the front.
Since logging I have twice had excavators in to regrade, remove stumps and boulders. Not rocks. I mean boulders. Some more than 6’ across. Heavy enough that a 30M# excavator could barely lift them.

My property(in south central NH) was never a farmers field in the 1800s like most land around here. I was never cleared until nine years ago. So, there are rocks and boulders all over the surface left from the glacier that receded about 12,000 years ago. Fortunately, there is no ledge. No granite. Just a lot of big rocks and crummy soil with a lot of clay.