Black Locust grows fast and burns HOT like hickory and the heart wood is rot resistant like cedar! Honey Locust has tasty pulp in the seed pods. Both support native animals.
Yes, I noticed that his locust had large thorns and thought it is honey locust; black locust trees don't have large thorns, they have short ones and they are nowhere near as bad as honey locust or water locust. Honey locust seed pods, the deer crave them but the thorns are wicked and the trees are hard to control, I am dealing with some now.
@@mydogdidit Well black is just as bad as honey, but the main difference is animals eat the honey locus seed pods like u said. That spreads them everywhere. The black locus use the short thorns as seed and they are more localized compared to honey. Anyway the old timers swore that black locus were the best post you could get, but I like metal post. Try and cut your Honey Locus seed pod trees, treat them with 50% generic round up ($60/2.5G)and you'll gain on them. I think I'll be killing ants(bifen), mock orange(6oz /gallon, kill all green plants) and locus the rest of my life. Thanks for bringing me back here. He reminded me I need to wait on hack & squire and use a soap bottle, not a squirt bottle.
I used this process on a very large Bradford pear that I didn't want to drop on my neighbor's fence and it worked very well. I also used Tordon RTU. Found a large "Paper mulberry" - cut it down and treated the stump with Tordon RTU. Ended up also killing a very nice hackberry tree (that I wanted to keep) that was about 6' away. So, lesson-learned and people should be aware...when using Tordon RTU, it WILL kill neighboring plants / trees also, if their roots are entangled together. Using a 20% solution of Glyphosate is a better herbicide that won't cause such risk to nearby plants.
Just opened a bottle here in Oklahoma. Wonder how long till I see any results? It's late August, so I figure the sap will be starting to go back down towards the roots about now, and the tordon will go to work pretty soon. At least I'm hoping so.@@tryinto5584
Don't wait to put prescribed fire on the ground. Even if the fuel is not continuous (there are bare spots) and all there is leaf litter, begin fire early. And keep burning every 1-3 years. As you thin and use other TSI practices, they will work with the prescribed fire to improve wildlife habitat in fire dependent communities like oak woodlands and savannas. Just make sure you have good fire breaks and a safe burn plan -- and follow the prescription. Contact your state prescribed fire council for help getting started.
Here in Kansas for some reason Bradford Pear Trees have become invasive. I need to get rid of volunteer trees along the fence line and used another product last year just after cutting and did not work at all. This method is really going to help me get some control of the situation. Thanks for your video.
Very informative. I am clearing a small area of my property as well. There a to many trees to cut remove an destump. This method certainly will help me over time.
Personally I use drain acid and paint the whole way around the trunk. Plumber trick There's noise associated when the process starts so best to do it in the dark. It pops the bark but stays on the tree.
2:50 Those 'paired' trunks look to be sweetgums. Thanks for the tip using Tordon. There are several black locust trees we need to take out and we'll try this. 4:07 That is a white oak tree and possibly a hybrid of two white oak species. Leaves on young trees often don't have the lobes completely developed and distinct.
What about using this method on a really big tree? The one on my lot is 60-80 ft. Big trunk too. Ash tree as I am told. If it will work, how much to use and is Tordon the right one to use on an ash tree?
Good questing I have about the same size or bigger Maple tree right in the front of our house small area in a subdivision. This tree has box elders that are worse this year because of this tree I want it down, but price was 4,000.00 to cut it way out of our price range.
Felling a live tree is dangerous too. I wouldn't do this method next to a house or structure but in the woods with minimal human traffic it's a great solution.
I have unwanted trees growing in a narrow spot between a shed and a fence…. And, I need this method for small stumps that keep sprouting branches and it’s a never ending battle to cut them back.
Be careful when doing this around structures, the branches do break off as the tree dies. Fighting stump sprouts is a never-ending battle unless the stump is treated when it is freshly cut. Thanks for watching!
Just a Question. A bushy floor in a forest is great for wildlife but doesn't is cause an undergrowth problem that transmits fire more easily. Back in Canada they stopped clearing Underbrush and ended up with horrible wild fires over the past few years. Just Asking to learn.
Regular burning can actually help reduce fire risk as fuel doesn't build up on the forest floor. Also, in our local climate (Kentucky) humidity is almost always too high for fire to transmit like those massive fires we see out west.
@@Susan70003 I SAID THIS MUST BE A COMMERCIAL FOR THE PRODUCT, COPPER NAILS ARENT LABLED AS COMMERCAIL AND I GOT MINE AT A HARDWARE STORE AND DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE TREE I WOULD PUT A BUNCH IN, NEVER TOOOOOO MANY, I PUT SOME IN A BIG PINE TREE THAT WAS ABOUT 60 FEET TALL AND IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS ALL THE NEEDLES FELL OFF AND THEN THE TREE WAS TAKEN DOWN.
Can you kill a ficus tree ,also the trees along the property line has yellow flowers which hurt the respiratory chest when bloomingnot to mention my car tur ns yelow color..
I don't. Cedars can be cut off below the bottom-most branch and they won't stump sprout. That's what I've been told, at least, and I haven't had any issues with it.
Hmm never heard of this, seems like it works well. Bet the woodpeckers like them, be able to get all the bugs thats hiding under the loose bark, and for nest building. We have a type of hawthorne tree that was already here when we bought the place it has giant thorns on it i make sure to go around and pick any that has fallen up so they dont get in the mower tire. We had thought about cutting it down but the birds love it so much i said, id rather keep it and watch them, plus we really don't have many trees since our farm used to be a bean field
I haven’t been paying attention but I bet you’re right, those woodpeckers are probably having a ball with those trees! If you want to watch more I’ve done a few other videos on this method and I have learned a LOT from the Growing Deer TV RUclips channel, they do a lot of habitat improvement projects. It’s funny, I’m kind of a tree nut (pun intended) and Megan would rather get rid of nearly all of them!
@@GWPHomestead thanks, I'll have to go back and check the older videos i haven't had much catch up time since I've subscribed, farming and canning keeping me super busy, y'all know how it is. I love trees as well, i have a white oak, red maple and a shell bark hickory that I've started that needs to be planted in the spring. I thought this fall but they still are kinda small and the winter can be so harsh. I will check the growing deer tv out, I'm all about natural habitat, so much so we have the most wild bobwhite quail in our field that I've ever seen they love all the seeds from the diffrent grasses we have planted, we don't harvest them just pretty to look at, they have gotten so use to me walking through the field they just go on about about their buisness and not scared at all so it would be kinda cruel to hunt them now
I have a lot of memories of walking through the woods with my dad, we’d sort of quiz each other on the different trees that we’d see. It’s one of those little things that I miss a lot. Growing up bobwhite quail were pretty prevalent until they just weren’t so I was very excited to spot a covey in the neighborhood! I believe the loss of habitat has been harder on their numbers than hunters. PS: my son is watching me type over my shoulder and wanted me to leave a smiley face 😊
Megan and I went down to Nashville for our honeymoon. During the trip we were discussing our plans for the night and because I had packed a few shirts I asked her which one she wanted me to wear. “Wear the red one you packed.” “I didn’t pack a red shirt, I packed a gray shirt.” …………..yep, red shirt.
I always thought I was “color stupid” because I can see colors but I have a hard time with some of them. Then one day I had to take a vision test for work and part of that was colorblindness and I failed spectacularly. The shirt thing was just a rather rude reminder 😂
A lot of these invasive plants start out as ornamental decorations and then spread - privet is like that and if you don’t get on it it takes over fast. Hackberry and sweet gum are native to me but they don’t offer as much benefit to deer or turkey as something like oak does so that’s why I’m thinning them down. Give the trees you want to keep the space they need to thrive and they’ll make more seeds and hopefully spread out over time. We had a real nice hickory by the pond growing up and my dad would always cut branches off to use in the smoker!
I'm using Tordon RTU. It's important to select a herbicide that is effective against your target tree species. I bought mine at my local farm store. There's also an Amazon link in the description of this video if you want to order online.
Usually you just end up with a standing dead tree trunk. Some of these fell over after 6 months to a year because the soil stays pretty saturated and the root structure had begun to decay.
Will this work with invasive North Indian Rosewood tree in Phoenix? I need the root system to die completely before it damages my house or the neighbors
Back in 95 I threw a rotten duck egg in my brothers rubber boot. After he beat me up he went down to the creek to wash his boot out and stepped on a big ole black locus thorn in his foot. Dr.s could not get it out first try. Don’t ask me how. So it stayed in his foot for about two weeks before a friend of his mom pulled it out. It was massive. Lol I still ask him from time to time if he remembers it.
I have two gumball trees that are a safety hazard. The trees themselves are healthy but they drop so many gumballs sedpods that I am indanger of rolling my ankle and falling every step I take . the fressh or even the decayed ones , it's just like trying to walk on marbles. I need them gone but need to save up for tree service. In the mean time I would like the trea to die so it stops dropping these hazard balls everywhere. This seems like the best way to kill the trees without cutting them down immediately. They are very close to my house and I've had a couple of close calls with 100 ft pine tree falling all the way from my neighbors property onto my roof!! I would like to not have danger balls tripping me but also don't want a tree or two to fall on my home. The problem is that there is a big gap in tree cover right above my house, because of course there are no trees growing where my house it. So the gumball tree has pushed all of it's branges into that circle of light and thus drops its balls right outside my back door. The branches are too tall to take down with a saw extender, and I can't think of any options other than paying thousands of dollars just to get two skinny trees cut down. So I might try this to at least kill the tree. There is a product that will sterilize the trees for one season but it is almost May and the product itself costs hundreds of dollars because they sell to businesses by the case, not by the single units. and anyway itmaight be too late in the season. I really appreciated the detailed explanation of your process and when and why to use it. It gives me something to think about and work toward.
Best of luck to you. Be aware that once the tree dies and begins to decay it will drop sticks and branches. In the woods this isn't a problem but near the house it may be a concern.
Bad idea to kill and leave large trees standing! You (and others) in that area will be dealing with an unstable, towering hazard that will keep dropping destructive pieces of branches and trunk over a period of years to hit whatever's under them...just trim it if it's over a neighbor or cut it down!
I have been girdling trees, BIG TREES, for years, and have not had any serious problems. Yes, limbs will fall out of these trees, but no more than my other trees, during a storm. And yes, at some point that tree WILL FALL. But at least I know WHERE these trees are, and can avoid, or observe, this area, before entering. I have MORE PROBLEMS with trees that I am NOT AWARE OF. But to each their own, and what your comfort level is.
Opening up the tree canopy allows more sunlight to hit the forest floor, promoting growth of plants that provide habitat for native wildlife. By thinning lower quality trees from a stand it also removes that competition for your more marketable timber. For anyone who manages property for wildlife or timber the hack and squirt technique is just another tool in the toolbag, one that requires minimal tools, little time, and less inherent risk than felling live trees.
I hope people watching this do more research and get better educated then this. Hack and squirt IS NOT A REPLACEMENT for flush cutting trees. Please people use better judgement. It has its places and uses but not like this guy is putting out, this is terrible advice.
Once that tree dies it is dried and he can come back and cut it and remove it and use it as firewood. If it is wet he is going to have to let it dry out before it can be used. For my needs this is a much smarter idea. BTW be never said it was a "replacement". Read before you bark.
Black Locus have short rosebush thorns.
Honey Locus have the nasty 3" thorns and banana seed pods.
Thanks for sharing!
Black Locust grows fast and burns HOT like hickory and the heart wood is rot resistant like cedar! Honey Locust has tasty pulp in the seed pods. Both support native animals.
Hackberries have edible fruits and nutty pits and they support native animals.
Yes, I noticed that his locust had large thorns and thought it is honey locust; black locust trees don't have large thorns, they have short ones and they are nowhere near as bad as honey locust or water locust. Honey locust seed pods, the deer crave them but the thorns are wicked and the trees are hard to control, I am dealing with some now.
@@mydogdidit Well black is just as bad as honey, but the main difference is animals eat the honey locus seed pods like u said. That spreads them everywhere. The black locus use the short thorns as seed and they are more localized compared to honey. Anyway the old timers swore that black locus were the best post you could get, but I like metal post.
Try and cut your Honey Locus seed pod trees, treat them with 50% generic round up ($60/2.5G)and you'll gain on them. I think I'll be killing ants(bifen), mock orange(6oz /gallon, kill all green plants) and locus the rest of my life.
Thanks for bringing me back here. He reminded me I need to wait on hack & squire and use a soap bottle, not a squirt bottle.
I used this process on a very large Bradford pear that I didn't want to drop on my neighbor's fence and it worked very well. I also used Tordon RTU. Found a large "Paper mulberry" - cut it down and treated the stump with Tordon RTU. Ended up also killing a very nice hackberry tree (that I wanted to keep) that was about 6' away.
So, lesson-learned and people should be aware...when using Tordon RTU, it WILL kill neighboring plants / trees also, if their roots are entangled together. Using a 20% solution of Glyphosate is a better herbicide that won't cause such risk to nearby plants.
Just opened a bottle here in Oklahoma. Wonder how long till I see any results? It's late August, so I figure the sap will be starting to go back down towards the roots about now, and the tordon will go to work pretty soon. At least I'm hoping so.@@tryinto5584
glyphosate causes cancer
Don't wait to put prescribed fire on the ground. Even if the fuel is not continuous (there are bare spots) and all there is leaf litter, begin fire early. And keep burning every 1-3 years. As you thin and use other TSI practices, they will work with the prescribed fire to improve wildlife habitat in fire dependent communities like oak woodlands and savannas. Just make sure you have good fire breaks and a safe burn plan -- and follow the prescription. Contact your state prescribed fire council for help getting started.
Here in Kansas for some reason Bradford Pear Trees have become invasive. I need to get rid of volunteer trees along the fence line and used another product last year just after cutting and did not work at all. This method is really going to help me get some control of the situation. Thanks for your video.
Our fences are badly overgrown as well. Our main culprit is privet but I can't stand bradford pears either. Best of luck to you!
Consider top working some Bartlett scions into the Branford’s their rootstock is incredible
Here in Missouri, Kansans have become invasive...
Black locusts never make thorns on the trunk only on new growth (also that bark doesn't look correct either) what you have is a honey locust
Very informative. I am clearing a small area of my property as well. There a to many trees to cut remove an destump. This method certainly will help me over time.
Best of luck!
I saw fence rows and thickets of Honey Locust in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky in 1971. Very impressive! Thanks for the video
I'd rather deal with that than with all the privet in my fence rows!
My neighbor must’ve seen this .. I’m glad I know how he did it. …
Personally I use drain acid and paint the whole way around the trunk. Plumber trick
There's noise associated when the process starts so best to do it in the dark. It pops the bark but stays on the tree.
😯😯😯😯
If I look up "tree removal plumber trick" will I maybe find more info?
I'm VERY new to much of this. I want to proceed with caution. 😏
Where do you get drain acid ? And can you drill through the trunk and pour it in there instead ?
2:50 Those 'paired' trunks look to be sweetgums. Thanks for the tip using Tordon. There are several black locust trees we need to take out and we'll try this. 4:07 That is a white oak tree and possibly a hybrid of two white oak species. Leaves on young trees often don't have the lobes completely developed and distinct.
Thanks for the tips!
I wish I had all that Goldenrod…WOW….incredible medicinal properties🙌🏼
The maple you could not identify at 2:40 looks a lot like a sweet gum to me.
You're probably right! Not sure I've ever paid attention to a young one before.
You are correct. Its a Gum tree
I also see some nasty poison Ivy vines on your locust tree. Cut 6” out of the vine and squirt the bottom cut.
Thanks for the tip!
Oh, I like this technique. Thanks for showing and explaining it so well!
It has done well for us the small amount we’ve done. I’m ready to really get on with tree elimination.
What about using this method on a really big tree? The one on my lot is 60-80 ft. Big trunk too. Ash tree as I am told. If it will work, how much to use and is Tordon the right one to use on an ash tree?
Good questing I have about the same size or bigger Maple tree right in the front of our house small area in a subdivision. This tree has box elders that are worse this year because of this tree I want it down, but price was 4,000.00 to cut it way out of our price range.
Well if they are dead they can fall on u at anytime vs a strong tree which makes it more dangerous ?
Felling a live tree is dangerous too. I wouldn't do this method next to a house or structure but in the woods with minimal human traffic it's a great solution.
I have unwanted trees growing in a narrow spot between a shed and a fence…. And, I need this method for small stumps that keep sprouting branches and it’s a never ending battle to cut them back.
Be careful when doing this around structures, the branches do break off as the tree dies. Fighting stump sprouts is a never-ending battle unless the stump is treated when it is freshly cut. Thanks for watching!
Are you sure the tree with the thorns is a black locust?? There is also a honey locust you might want to think about.
Just a Question. A bushy floor in a forest is great for wildlife but doesn't is cause an undergrowth problem that transmits fire more easily. Back in Canada they stopped clearing Underbrush and ended up with horrible wild fires over the past few years. Just Asking to learn.
Regular burning can actually help reduce fire risk as fuel doesn't build up on the forest floor. Also, in our local climate (Kentucky) humidity is almost always too high for fire to transmit like those massive fires we see out west.
Please tell me what is the name of the herbicide you use to kill trees? Thanks.
You need to select a herbicide based on the tree species you are targeting. You can Google it to see what works. I'm using Tordon RTU here.
2:53 is a sweet gum tree
Thanks for sharing, I appreciate it!
Can we use this method for drying the lumber before felling the tree?
You'd get some nice spalting but it would compromise the tree as a whole. Would likely destroy itself during the felling process.
@@GWPHomestead I'll try it on some Eucalyptus and within some months I'll share with you how it was
Black locust is great handle wood, You may have hickory though, in the west we don’t get it
I HAVE USED COPPER NAIL AND IT WORKS PLAIN AND SIMPLE, THIS MUST BE A COMMERCIAL FOR THIS PRODUCT
Why must it be a commercial copper nail? Is a construction nail the right one? How long will it take to die and how many should I pound in? Tia
@@Susan70003 I SAID THIS MUST BE A COMMERCIAL FOR THE PRODUCT, COPPER NAILS ARENT LABLED AS COMMERCAIL AND I GOT MINE AT A HARDWARE STORE AND DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE TREE I WOULD PUT A BUNCH IN, NEVER TOOOOOO MANY, I PUT SOME IN A BIG PINE TREE THAT WAS ABOUT 60 FEET TALL AND IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS ALL THE NEEDLES FELL OFF AND THEN THE TREE WAS TAKEN DOWN.
Can I do this to its roots?
I have Tordon & use it sometimes but i usually cut everything down & burn it up....
What herbicide do you use?
This is Tordon RTU. Select a herbicide based on your target tree species.
swamp white oak?
You talking about the oak I couldn’t identify? That might be it.
@@GWPHomestead i always confuse swamp white with burr oak, but it think burr oak is not a compound 5 leaf..
Armadillo hole possible????
Very possible! I have them on trail camera.
What's best to use on a poplar?
Does this kill a whole massive underground root system too?
It would take a lot of herbicide to work through an exceptionally large root system. For a "typical" tree it does fine.
Good knowledge to have, thank you for the video
Can you kill a ficus tree ,also the trees along the property line has yellow flowers which hurt the respiratory chest when bloomingnot to mention my car tur
ns yelow color..
Cool update👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks for watching!
Does the hack and squirt work on red bud trees also. i have them all over and are a pain to get rid of since they grow back at the root.?
Not sure why it wouldn't work, just use enough of the appropriate herbicide.
On the Gulf Coast of Texas that hole would be for an armadillo, possibly a skink
Didn't even think about it being an armadillo, we have them around here. Thanks!
what poison you use it effects the soil?
Tordon RTU is what I'm using here; it is ground active , meaning it can affect nearby plants.
Is round up considered a good herbicide?
Depends on the application. It's really good at what it's made to do.
What you have there is a honey locust. Black locust do not have thorns
Yep I think you've got that right! My mistake.
Can I use this on cedar trees?
I don't. Cedars can be cut off below the bottom-most branch and they won't stump sprout. That's what I've been told, at least, and I haven't had any issues with it.
Hmm never heard of this, seems like it works well. Bet the woodpeckers like them, be able to get all the bugs thats hiding under the loose bark, and for nest building. We have a type of hawthorne tree that was already here when we bought the place it has giant thorns on it i make sure to go around and pick any that has fallen up so they dont get in the mower tire. We had thought about cutting it down but the birds love it so much i said, id rather keep it and watch them, plus we really don't have many trees since our farm used to be a bean field
I haven’t been paying attention but I bet you’re right, those woodpeckers are probably having a ball with those trees! If you want to watch more I’ve done a few other videos on this method and I have learned a LOT from the Growing Deer TV RUclips channel, they do a lot of habitat improvement projects. It’s funny, I’m kind of a tree nut (pun intended) and Megan would rather get rid of nearly all of them!
@@GWPHomestead thanks, I'll have to go back and check the older videos i haven't had much catch up time since I've subscribed, farming and canning keeping me super busy, y'all know how it is. I love trees as well, i have a white oak, red maple and a shell bark hickory that I've started that needs to be planted in the spring. I thought this fall but they still are kinda small and the winter can be so harsh. I will check the growing deer tv out, I'm all about natural habitat, so much so we have the most wild bobwhite quail in our field that I've ever seen they love all the seeds from the diffrent grasses we have planted, we don't harvest them just pretty to look at, they have gotten so use to me walking through the field they just go on about about their buisness and not scared at all so it would be kinda cruel to hunt them now
I have a lot of memories of walking through the woods with my dad, we’d sort of quiz each other on the different trees that we’d see. It’s one of those little things that I miss a lot. Growing up bobwhite quail were pretty prevalent until they just weren’t so I was very excited to spot a covey in the neighborhood! I believe the loss of habitat has been harder on their numbers than hunters.
PS: my son is watching me type over my shoulder and wanted me to leave a smiley face 😊
@@GWPHomestead 🤗
Dies this work on cedar trees?
Haven’t tried it myself. Cedars I just cut below the bottom branch and fell them.
I had no idea you were colorblind!
Megan and I went down to Nashville for our honeymoon. During the trip we were discussing our plans for the night and because I had packed a few shirts I asked her which one she wanted me to wear. “Wear the red one you packed.” “I didn’t pack a red shirt, I packed a gray shirt.” …………..yep, red shirt.
@@GWPHomestead omg is that how you found out?!
I always thought I was “color stupid” because I can see colors but I have a hard time with some of them. Then one day I had to take a vision test for work and part of that was colorblindness and I failed spectacularly. The shirt thing was just a rather rude reminder 😂
How do all these varieties get started i dont see any Hickory my favorite as a kid
A lot of these invasive plants start out as ornamental decorations and then spread - privet is like that and if you don’t get on it it takes over fast. Hackberry and sweet gum are native to me but they don’t offer as much benefit to deer or turkey as something like oak does so that’s why I’m thinning them down. Give the trees you want to keep the space they need to thrive and they’ll make more seeds and hopefully spread out over time. We had a real nice hickory by the pond growing up and my dad would always cut branches off to use in the smoker!
Can you do a prescribed fire where you are at. I like to run fire through my tsi areas.
Yes I can, I haven’t been able to do that here though. It’s a goal I have to do that soon.
After I wrote this comment I heard you say prescribed fire. We do it a lot on our place and can see a big difference. Good luck and looking good.
@@jamiemabe8293 thanks!
love your trees😮😮😮😮😮
Does this work well on Pine? I have monsters..
Should do fine, just make sure you use a herbicide that's effective on pine.
@@GWPHomestead Thanks
Where can I get this herbicide? What is it called?
I'm using Tordon RTU. It's important to select a herbicide that is effective against your target tree species. I bought mine at my local farm store. There's also an Amazon link in the description of this video if you want to order online.
What about salt ?
Haven't tried it.
Once you do this method how long does it take for the tree to fall ??
Usually you just end up with a standing dead tree trunk. Some of these fell over after 6 months to a year because the soil stays pretty saturated and the root structure had begun to decay.
Will this work with invasive North Indian Rosewood tree in Phoenix? I need the root system to die completely before it damages my house or the neighbors
You must love rose bushes
The wife prefers lilies lol
Great video thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
helpful thank you
Why would you leave to chance a dead tree falling on someone
Habitat improvement or timber stand improvement is the goal. Felling live trees is very dangerous.
@@GWPHomestead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 dumb comment from you
Not 100% but i believe the oak you referred to was a Chinkapin.
I love your yellow shirt🤗😎
Yellow is great because it's one of the colors I can see really well.
yep, honey locust
Works, now black locust are nitrogen fixers. They help feed other trees
Didn't know that, thanks for sharing!
the tree you thought was a maple was actually a sweetgum!
Yep I think you’re right! Thanks!
Back in 95 I threw a rotten duck egg in my brothers rubber boot. After he beat me up he went down to the creek to wash his boot out and stepped on a big ole black locus thorn in his foot. Dr.s could not get it out first try. Don’t ask me how. So it stayed in his foot for about two weeks before a friend of his mom pulled it out. It was massive. Lol I still ask him from time to time if he remembers it.
Wow! I've heard they can be very irritating because of the oil on them or something. I bet that was awful.
@@GWPHomestead Lol I was 5 then. I’m 33 now. He’s still hot at me over that one.
It's easier to mulch a live tree than a dead one.
Oak trees won't produce acorns during their first 15 to 20 years
It's a lot easier to cut down a dead tree than a live tree.
HONEY LOCUST are the ones with the THORNS on them. Black Locust do not have thorns.
Yep I think you've got that right! My mistake.
Hornet nest
Cool
I have two gumball trees that are a safety hazard. The trees themselves are healthy but they drop so many gumballs sedpods that I am indanger of rolling my ankle and falling every step I take . the fressh or even the decayed ones , it's just like trying to walk on marbles. I need them gone but need to save up for tree service. In the mean time I would like the trea to die so it stops dropping these hazard balls everywhere. This seems like the best way to kill the trees without cutting them down immediately. They are very close to my house and I've had a couple of close calls with 100 ft pine tree falling all the way from my neighbors property onto my roof!! I would like to not have danger balls tripping me but also don't want a tree or two to fall on my home. The problem is that there is a big gap in tree cover right above my house, because of course there are no trees growing where my house it. So the gumball tree has pushed all of it's branges into that circle of light and thus drops its balls right outside my back door. The branches are too tall to take down with a saw extender, and I can't think of any options other than paying thousands of dollars just to get two skinny trees cut down. So I might try this to at least kill the tree. There is a product that will sterilize the trees for one season but it is almost May and the product itself costs hundreds of dollars because they sell to businesses by the case, not by the single units. and anyway itmaight be too late in the season.
I really appreciated the detailed explanation of your process and when and why to use it. It gives me something to think about and work toward.
Best of luck to you. Be aware that once the tree dies and begins to decay it will drop sticks and branches. In the woods this isn't a problem but near the house it may be a concern.
Armadillo
Groundhog or armadillo
I've got them both
How about a very large Siberian Elm? Would love that thing gone!
Should work, just apply enough of the proper herbicide.
All invasives should have been pre-treated
That's not a maple......it's sweetgum
Yellow jackets live in holes
Watch living in the hole? Big foot lol.
Maple tree didn't serve your purposes. Well, being native, it served the purposes of the health of your woods.
Bad idea to kill and leave large trees standing! You (and others) in that area will be dealing with an unstable, towering hazard that will keep dropping destructive pieces of branches and trunk over a period of years to hit whatever's under them...just trim it if it's over a neighbor or cut it down!
I have been girdling trees, BIG TREES, for years, and have not had any serious problems.
Yes, limbs will fall out of these trees, but no more than my other trees, during a storm.
And yes, at some point that tree WILL FALL.
But at least I know WHERE these trees are, and can avoid, or observe, this area, before entering.
I have MORE PROBLEMS with trees that I am NOT AWARE OF.
But to each their own, and what your comfort level is.
Who the hell wants a bunch of standing dead trees. Terrible idea to do to more than a few
Opening up the tree canopy allows more sunlight to hit the forest floor, promoting growth of plants that provide habitat for native wildlife. By thinning lower quality trees from a stand it also removes that competition for your more marketable timber. For anyone who manages property for wildlife or timber the hack and squirt technique is just another tool in the toolbag, one that requires minimal tools, little time, and less inherent risk than felling live trees.
@@GWPHomestead yea I get the purpose. Still don’t want dead trees overtop of my head as I walk around the woods.
If it is terrible then why did you watch the video? Troll?
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I hope people watching this do more research and get better educated then this. Hack and squirt IS NOT A REPLACEMENT for flush cutting trees. Please people use better judgement. It has its places and uses but not like this guy is putting out, this is terrible advice.
Did I ever say it was a replacement?
Once that tree dies it is dried and he can come back and cut it and remove it and use it as firewood. If it is wet he is going to have to let it dry out before it can be used. For my needs this is a much smarter idea. BTW be never said it was a "replacement". Read before you bark.
No such thing as a desirable tree all trees are garbage