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 35β 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 6β 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.
In NH, farming fields were called “rock farms”.