How do you get rid of Honey Locust Trees?

[bpsooner]

Does anyone have any experience and advice on how and when is the best way to get rid of Honey Locust trees? 2 flats on my tractor this week was the last staw. Those thorns are killer!

Any help will be most appreciated.......

 

[smfcpacfp]

a nuclear weapon

 

[BruceWard]

Locust trees were over running our 300 acre ex cattle farm where I wanted to plant pine. My Father and youngest Brother tried cutting and burning them years earlier but that had little effect as they grow back. I had a crew come in and "hack and squirt" them with Tordon. The Tordon killed them. Most of the trees are still standing three years later but they are dead. The thorns get harder after they die but the thorns are becoming brittle now.

More info can be found at Ask Extension - Controlling Honeylocust (Forestry Herbicides)

 

[xrjohndeere]

I had some in my yard. I cut them down. Dug up the stump and burned everything. I have not had any come back. Don't know how many you have but this worked for me. Good luck.

 

[newbury]

Napalm in the morning

 

[forgeblast]

Cut and then spray some type of weed killer on them. Although even after 4 years of them being cut i still find little seedlings coming up. Just watch cutting them i would hate to get to get pinned by those spikes.

 

[ToadHill]

Any tree that sprouts off the roots like Locust or Beach can be killed by cutting the tree and painting a glyphospate (roundup) product on the stump right after you cut the tree down.

This has to be done when the leaves are on the tree.

How does this work you might ask: well the cells in the tree that take moisture from the roots to the leaves ( the xylem) and the cells that take sugars produced by the leaves down to the storage chambers in the roots ( the phloem) don't realize for some time that the top of the tree is gone. If you paint the glyphospate on the stump the phloem will suck it down into the roots which will end up killing them and you won't get suckering off the root of the tree.

 

[forgeblast]

Driving to work today I passed two tree companies clearing the power lines. They were painting on the roundup as they went down the road.

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

If it's an isolated tree, cut it down and burn out the stump or push it over to tear out the main roots.
OTOH, these things propagate by suckers coming up from the roots, so you likely have a "grove" of them so waiting for spring when they start putting out leaves is your best bet.
cut the big ones and paint them with Tordon or similar and see what else curls up and dies.

 

[DRL]

I have also heard of painting the fresh cut stump with Crossbow, don't know how that compares to Round Up for this purpose.
DRL