Thorny bush you must die.

[Tinhack]

So am I to assume that a regular mowing regimen will not eventually kill off the little ba$$tards? Sorry, I'm new to all this.

You can't mow cactus. That will spread it faster. I dig that stuff up by the roots. I tend to just live with the Mesquite by keeping them trimmed up off the ground where I need to mow and along the driveway. It's about the only shade we have down here. Besides, it makes great Barbeque.

 

[BruceS_55]

You can't mow cactus. That will spread it faster. I dig that stuff up by the roots. I tend to just live with the Mesquite by keeping them trimmed up off the ground where I need to mow and along the driveway. It's about the only shade we have down here. Besides, it makes great Barbeque.

I'm in Missouri. Not much cactus and no Mesquite. But we do have multi-flora rose and locust trees.

 

[Hay Dude]

The worst is trying to cut thorny brush around ROCK. You’ll either hit the rock and dull the blades, or end up with a steel schrapnel injury like I did 2 years ago.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I am on a similar program to eradicate the thorny stuff in my forest. About four years ago I realized that the first thing to green up in my forest were the very things I was trying to get rid of. It is a battle, but I can tell I have made some progress. I can't use chemicals because my wife has an extreme sensitivity to and my entire forest is a water shed to a small lake.

Doug in SW IA

Basal applications are the way to go to confine herbicides. I use a 50/50 mix of Crossbow and transmission fluid. If it's small enough to cut at ground level, I use a small squirt bottle on the bare wood. Dead. For larger trees, slash and squirt is the way to go. Cut the bark with a machete or hatchet and squirt full strength Garlon or Crossbow into the wound. It only takes a tsp. Unfortunately, slash and squirt does not work when the sap is rising. You have to wait until summer at the earliest. In both cases, you are using a minuscule amount of herbicide that will not get widely spread throughout the environment or watershed.

 

[scootr]

Tumble weed and thistle here mostly. It's seed is a thorny bloom that falls off as it tumbles along. The worse is some type of cocklebur that grows in the creek bottoms. You get on those berries in the cat or dog and it is scissor time.

 

[Richard]

I dug ours up and carried them to the burn pile (pulled roots out too). Prayed entire time those 4" spikes would not cause me a flat or three.

Showed a thorn to wife and she (finally?) hushed up.... she had no idea they could be so long and so strong.

 

[Tinhack]

I dug ours up and carried them to the burn pile (pulled roots out too). Prayed entire time those 4" spikes would not cause me a flat or three.

Showed a thorn to wife and she (finally?) hushed up.... she had no idea they could be so long and so strong.

I had some orange trees that were gaffed to some kind of citrus stock. That is until a hard freeze killed them. I thought they were dead, but the citrus stock regrew. The fruit is uneatable and the thorns on those things are good 3-4" and very pointed and hard. I found a bird empaled on one by a nest. I keep meaning to pull those things out by the roots. I may give it a try after we get a more soaking rain.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm dealing with 40 acres of Mesquite that has taken over some really good pasture that I want to use for making round bales in the future. I'm spraying one gallon of Remedy mixed with 3 gallons of diesel onto the trunks of every tree, one at a time. It's going to take me forever to get them all!!!

At my place, I don't have any Mesquite, but I do have locust trees and blackberries. The locust are easy enough to dig out with my backhoe, but he blackberries just spread out wider when you mow them down.

Until I got goats, I really didn't have a good plan for the blackberries. Around my small pond, they where so thick that you couldn't see the water, and I couldn't get any closer to them to mow them down without going into the water. Half a dozen goats ate every bit of them down to not existing anymore in just a couple of weeks. I wasn't paying attention, and I didn't know they ate blackberries, so it was a surprise when I walked around the back of the barn and I could see the pond without any blackberries. Out in the pasture where I had patches of blackberries growing, I can't find any sign of them ever being there. Goats love them!!!!

Goats are a huge pain to keep fenced in, but if you have a good fence, they never stop eating brush and everything they can get from the bottoms of the trees. Another big surprise was how nice they cleared everything around the lower parts of the woods. They went from too thick to see through, to looking like a manicured park.

 

[5030]

You know what time it is?
It's time to throw the pruners into the woods and go get Big Greenie. That bush is going back to hell from whence it
came!

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So tell me, how is your cheap Timex Expedition holding up? I have one as well and it keeps perfect time plus mine is solar powered. Nice watch for cheap.

 

[dj1701]

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So tell me, how is your cheap Timex Expedition holding up? I have one as well and it keeps perfect time plus mine is solar powered. Nice watch for cheap.

The simplicity and ruggedness for cheap.