How many people on here have done hinge cutting on there property? It seems like a good way to create a bedding area and to create more natural browse for the deer. I have a spot in mind that I would like thicker and it would be a great bedding area but there are alot of big trees in there as well as small ones. Would hinge cutting still work?
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Hinge cutting is the best way to get woods to thicken up, create bedding areas, create natural fence/barriers, bring browsing to a deer's eye level....and well it's the best tool there is really. Now some trees as they get bigger and bigger are harder to hinge, they want to just snap. That is why if you do any hinging it's best to do it now, before the sap starts flowing from the roots back up. If you do this, most trees will produce tons of shoots coming out of the stump which will be browsed and produce "bush like" structures throughout your clear cut or hinge cut areas.
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I dont own my own property, but when creating covey headquarters for quail we will hinge cut and push several trees inward towards each other and it works great. It also works for edge feathering fence rows, Drop the trees at a 45 degree on top of each other.
One of the best places i ever hunted was a 1.5 ac plot of multi flora bush patch mixed with small cedars and trees I would have to cut my way into the stand on ever hunt with a pair of hand sheers and the deer were like rabbits in this mess,even if you pushed the deer out when walking in the deer would return almost right away after you got into your stand and things would settle down. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. Lost the place in a divorce,But i always thought of planting a new patch here. also i was shed hunting yesterday on a ridge that was logged out a couple of years back and the treetops are everywhere and the deer have really taken to it,bad thing is a lot of it is on the side of the hill and the deer can see me leaving my house when the leaves are off the trees so it makes it hard to approach the area i like to hunt.
