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A chainsaw, the right tools and some planning transformed this woodlot into and ideal hinge cut bedding and safe zone. Hinge cutting trees for deer is one of the best ways to immediately improve the deer habitat on your property to increase hunting success. Jan 28, I'd hinge elm all day long. Doesn't hinge quite as well but can work just fine and for sure decent for hinge. Elm rarely reaches maturity due to disease, competes with many desirable trees and has little to no value to deer and many other critters.

Ash - doesn't hing particularly well but I'd Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Oct 05, Benny Collins Mossy Oak ProStaff. We practice hinge cutting, the process of cutting trees with no economic value and letting the tops of those trees fall over, on quite a few of the farms where we plant green fields. Hinge cutting dominos tree falling commercial open.

Feb 04, 1 Wild American Plum. (Prunus americana) American plum trees serve two purposes in the deer woods. This low-growing, multistemmed tree reaches 15 to 25 feet tall and forms great cover when feathering an edge from mature woodlots to food plots or open bushfelling.bar: Michael Pendley.

Jan 02, In order to hinge cut an area to keep deer out or create a visual barrier, you are going to be cutting trees in many different directions and at many different heights.

The point is to drop all trees in to the same area and create something that looks like a tornado went through it.