Jeffrey Young's choice of wildflowers in unused acreages you want to keep open is a good one. We have a house in Vermont with 14.5 acres surrounding it that used to be pasture. Alas, the lawns adjacent to the house are easy enough to keep maintained, but the woolands were rapidly encrouching upon us until this summer. We purchase the new DR Brush Hog from a company that is also in Charlotte, VT. It is a miracle what that machine can do. In one week my husband cleared all the overgrown areas and had them planted with wildflower seed from the Wildflower Farm in Charlotte. The Brush Hog will cut saplings up to 2-3 inches in diameter, is easy to handle and very safe. We recommend it...along with the wildflowers!