Bringing this one back from the dead, I want to add my favorite land clearing tool.
The Woodman's Pal
I have cleared a lot of land with an axe, machete and chainsaw. I have one area that gets overgrown and always took a day to clean out with a machete and a chainsaw. I learned about the Woodman's Pal. It took a bit of thinking before I dropped the money to buy it. The 100% unconditional, money back guarantee helped a lot. I got it and took it out to my nemesis spot to try it out. I was out there for 40-50 minutes and had cleared all of the undergrowth and all I had left was the 6-7 trees which I would need the chainsaw for. I got back inside and the wife asked if it was worth the money. She was concerned when I told her I had spent $130 on a machete and a sheath. I told her to go look at what I had done. She has helped me before and laughed and said "You weren't out long will I see any difference or did you just go outside and play with your new toy." I told her again "Go Look I need a drink of water." She returned speechless, took the woodman's pal outside to see how I could do all that work in that time. She quickly ran out of stuff to cut and chop on and when I came outside she put me to work chopping a tree down with it. I put a 5-6" tree down rather quick. It chops with little effort you can let it do the work. The hook is amazing for cutting vines and briars. Stick it in there hook and pull back and it is cut. I carry it in the tool box on my pickup and it gets transferred to my
jeep when we go offroading and camping. It has replaced my axe, machete, chainsaw and hatchet for most camp jobs and a lot of the around the property cleaning jobs not done with a bushhog.
Well worth having around.