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bdog

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Where we live tumbleweeds are a huge problem. We keep our land mowed and none grow on our place but every spring there is quite the accumulation of them along the fences that get blown there from vacant land surrounding us. The property next to us is vacant with no fences and I often think about just picking up the tumbleweeds and throwing them over the fence on a windy day so that they can continue on their merry way. They might make it to the next county before they stop who knows. Part of me sees this as wrong, littering or contributing to the problem in some way but then part of me does not. I mean it would be totally wrong if I threw them over the fence into a fenced neighboor's land but I don't think it is so bad putting them back out in the "open" where they came from.

It is too dry to burn them and there are so many we are talking dozens and dozens of pickup bed loads and I would be filling up my dumpster with them for weeks.

What do you think about this?
 
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In Arizona.....I once saw a giant snowman made from tumbleweeds. Snowman must have been 20 feet high and real wide.....kids had some fun building it. Maybe you could create something.......charge admission and sell hot dogs......maybe not???:laughing:
 
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Tumbleweed etiquette, a new TBN topic!

The dumpster doesn't sound like a very good solution. I've never lived in tumbleweed territory, to me they are just movie props to add a flavor of desolation to a scene.
 
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Does your fence keep animals in or out, or is it just a boundary marker? What kind of wire? How long?

Is the problem seasonal or year-long?

Bruce
 
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My fence keeps my animals in. On one side my neighbor has animals also but the other three sides are just open land. The fence is made of sheep/goat wire or whatever you call it. 4" or so mesh. It will catch pretty much any tumbleweed that comes its way.
 
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Tumbleweeds are just a part of nature so I say set them fee anyway you can and let them continue their jurney. At a ranch we hunt in Montana I have seen them piled 15 feet high at the end of some open planes. :eek:
 
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This is something I heard about many years ago. I looked into it and this is what I found. "Salsola tragus (Russian thistle) is an annual plant that breaks off at the stem base, forming a tumbleweed that disperses its seeds as it rolls on top of the ground. It seems to have been imported into South Dakota from Russia in 1870 or 1874 in shipments of flaxseed."
 
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Squash them with FEL, then scoop them up & make a burn pile for later.
 
   / tumbleweeds #9  
If you want any more, I'd be happy to send you mine... They will burn plenty hot. I once had the notion that baled, they could provide fuel for a heater.
 
   / tumbleweeds #10  
:scratchchin:Need to find a use for them.
 

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