Weeds and fence

[Ozarker]

Back in the 60's when my dad decided to fence our property, he poured a 6" wide concrete strip under the fence.

We dug the trench all around the perimeter and then dug the post holes. Then he set 2 X 4 forms to make the concrete strip 8" wide an 4" thick. He rented a mixer and we went to get the sand, rock and cement.

We set all the poles first. Then, the next Saturday, I ran the mixer making the cement, my brother ran the wheel barrow taking the cement to my dad who was trowling it into the trench.

No weeds in that fence and no dog ever dug under it. Just set the mower wheels on the concrete strip and cut the grass.

 

[cowboydoc]

Gator is right absolutely no harm at all to animals. You can graze them the next day where the area was sprayed.

 

[EastTexFrank]

If you're going to do it, that's the way to do it. Unfortunately, I did a lot of things when I was younger that I'm not willing to do now ... getting old and lazy I guess. Now I use Roundup or one of the other glycophosphates and a string trimmer.

I've never heard of any livestock being harmed by Roundup but I did see a program on TV ages ago (60 Minutes I think) where people in South America were sueing the DEA because of health problems caused by the aerial application of Roundup to cocoa plants being grown in jungle clearings. I don't know how it turned out or if there was any truth in their claims.

 

[DAP]

There are a lot of anti-pesticide, 'green' peeps who rebut this. I don't know who is right, but I'm not spraying my paddocks with RoundUP.

 

[Gatorboy]

I wish I could remember where I read or heard this, but there is some teacher of agriculture at some college that the first day of class drinks a cup of RoundUp in front of everyone to prove it is not harmful to be injested.

To spray or not to spray is of course a personal choice. I have been using it for almost 25 years, and have never had any problems whatsoever.

 

[cowboydoc]

If we really paid attention to everything that might somehow, someway be a little harmful for you we'd all be living in glass bubbles. When I was in high school we were at a science fair. One bright kid was doing a presentation on a substance that was causing worldwide problems. He went on in a secret way to describe the destructive properties of this substance. By the time he was done he had most of the room ready to ban this substance. The substance he had been talking about the whole time was WATER. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Lazy]

Hi
I think public water thats been treated can be harmful, so we haven't been drinking water from the tap or using it in cooking in over 30 years. We buy distilled water for drinking and cooking.

Charlie.

 

[cowboydoc]

I think you made my point better than I could have Lazy. You do know there are reported health concerns from drinking distilled water as well. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Lazy]

Nope, cowboy I haven't heard that. What could be in distilled water that would hurt you? We are talking about distilled water NOT drinking water; I have heard drinking water is just purified tap water but sold as spring water. When we were a kid growing up in Kentucky we would drink water from the Tenn. River while fishing. Now we don't even eat the fish from the river. Good clean water will be hard to come by in a few hundred years or maybe less. Every new home might have to have a still built in for making clean water.

 

[SPIKER]

Well the recent release by the national center for public health stated the leading cause of death was life! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

but then again I lost several family members to agent orange. Then the chemical spill back in the 70 due a train crash killed off everythign in black river here in ohio from Lodi (where I grew up. we watched the chemicals running into the creek which was one of my favorite spots to play fish swim ect.) all the way to Lake Erie about 80 miles of creek/river. We still fish that river up in erie but I often think of that river of chemicals running into the stream every time we go up there... I fished the river where it flowed into it back about 4 years ago and caught some really nice small mouth bass.. still won't eat them though as that oozy smelly flow of chemicals still is in my mind... 9 oddley enough I can't remember what I did yesterday!? wonder if it has anything to do wiht them chemicals in the water>? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif


anyhow roundup been around a while, so far it still works and hasn't YET been banned. give the EPA a few more testnig days... I like the idea of concrete as long as it is above round level a bit it shouldn't grow over too fast... but then again my sidewalk is 4' wide and I can only see about 1 foot of concrete after 10 years of not edging the walk lol

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif