Help with canal bank

They make heavy equipment with an articulating arm that has brush cutters attached to do that type work. The tractor rides on the high ground and the arm extends down the bank and whacks the brush down.

I'd leave the bigger trees alone and just take out the brush.

Hire some kids who have machetes

I cleared out much more than 600 ft. of trails in the woods with my machete for airsoft wars 15 years ago. There’s still good ones out there that want to work. They’re not all the same bud.

I’m assuming the poster asking the question will pay the worker for his service. Obviously money would be his motivation.

Hell, if you hire a professional landscaping company to do the job, money will still be their motivation. If you do a job, you get paid. It’s as simple as that.

Where is the property located?

You might start the erosion process.....be careful

St. Amant. On the New River Canal.

OK thank you. If it was closer...

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I’m assuming the poster asking the question will pay the worker for his service. Obviously money would be his motivation.

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You responded saying "hire some kids". You really think kids will do this amount of work for even a reasonable rate of return???? I don't, especially once they get to hacking and see it's probably more than they bargained for.

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Hell, if you hire a professional landscaping company to do the job, money will still be their motivation. If you do a job, you get paid. It’s as simple as that.

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Now you're talking. And like I said in my first response, get someone with a piece of equipment with an articulating arm on a nice piece of equipment to do the job. They'll be done is less than a days time.

There’s no easy way OP. I don’t know goats that well but they usually eat greens, leaves, etc. that’s a lot of muscadine and wood vine that I’d be surprised if they want to eat the vine stalks stalks of.

You can spray it, it’s not legal probably right next to the water like that. Or as said hire someone with heavy machinery to come in and cut it. I’m sure it won’t be cheap at all though I’m talking like $10,000 or so because 600 ft is a lot and that’s a jungle.

I’ve been clearing some old growth land like that in my back yard that’s a utility easement no one has touched in a long time. It’s a lot of fricking work and I’m using a combination of hedge trimmer, chain saw, and pole saw.