Dealing With Old Fence Clearing Debris

Shortly after buying our property, I started to notice numerous piles of debris on the edges of the wooded area of the property.  My assumption is the debris was piled up when the paths and fence were created anything in the way was pushed into piles.  

My dad allowed me to use his skid steer for some work on the property this week.  One of the many items I planned was to work on eliminating a few of these piles of debris.  I worked through a few of the piles and made some early progress but it was not progressing as fast as expected.  

What is unique is that the piles don't consist of tree and dirt mixed.  The dirt is toward the fence side of the pile.  Beyond it is all of the trees which were removed.  I suppose they pushed the trees down and into a pile at the tree line.  They then leveled the ground and pushed excess dirt into the pile.  

I can't move all the wood as my entire property would essentially be a burn pile.  I can work on that later and use the skid steer to move the dirt piles to revel the wood.  The wood will decay faster this way and I can access it to burn later if needed.  

I cleared 14 of the areas and then decided I might want to count what is left as the process was taking too long.  I then took a map and drove around marking the various piles and found there were 23 left to remove.  

I cleared about eight more piles but continued to find more.  Yaupon brush has grown in front of and over most of the dirt piles which make it difficult to see them initially.  Sometimes I would find them as I removed some Yaupon but other times it is just visible with some careful looking.

At this point, I decided to stop and put the rest of my time with the skid steer in areas which my family and I would benefit from more and perhaps find time to deal with these piles later.