Winter Buckthorn Removal Tips with the help of Goats
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025
- Clear invasive Buckthorn faster and with less headache with these techniques. Winter can be a great time to remove Buckthorn from the landscape. Topics include: equipment for Buckthorn removal, techniques to get good results while causing little stress on the environment. The concept of using goats to clear brush and Buckthorn in Minnesota will out be covered. Lets take back our forests, prairies and ponds! I am also interested in networking with others who are working on this. Thanks for watching!
It’s November 2020... thanks for the video!
You are welcome! Thanks for stopping by.
How has your buckthorn removal plan worked out since 2014. We used goats 2 yr ago, but they damaged too many other good trees. near Wausau WI
Goats have done wonders for our land, i need to go back and shoot this video before and after. I would be curious with details on the good trees that they went after to I can further answer your question.
Hi Jacob, I live in WI and am just starting to tackle the buckthorn on my 2.5 acres that grew quickly after removing sick pine trees that covered the property previously. By the time I figured out what it was it had overtaken the majority of our land. Anyway, I'm curious about the weed trimmer you used and the blade. What kind of weed trimmer was it and what kind of blade? Can you attach a blade to any weed trimmer or just certain ones? Thanks for your help.
Sorry I didn't know I had all these RUclips Comments and finally getting to them now a year later! We used the largest weed trimmer you can get wtih a straight shaft before you get into the brush cutter models. we then get the teeth blades online. We now like to use the carbide tooth ones.
Nice video Jacob! What breed of goats are you using? Do you have other plans to use the goats as well? Like selling the young ones for meat or milking? I would love to get some goats to help with buckthorn just need to figure out how to make it all worthwhile.
Thanks, I am looking at all of the above options. I am close to uploading my first video more about goats to answer your questions. After watching the video let me know if you have any other questions. It will be on my channel titles "Using Goats to Graze Brush and Invasive Plants"
I love this topic. We do have buckthorn here but not as invasive as your neck of the woods. We are heavy infested with Kudzu which was brought to the US from China in the 60s for cow feed. It can take over everything climbing as high as 60 feet into mature trees chocking the canopy. There have been goat leasing programs going on for years now here. It grows so fast that if you sit for two hours and put a ruler along a leader you can see it grow. Crazy! I love that that Sthil is called a weed whip up there. We call them weed hackers or eaters.
Ben - I wonder why Buckthorn in not as invasive there? That is pretty interesting. I was just reading about Kudzu and you can keep that stuff! Yikes! Never heard them called weed hackers here... I have heard eater... I guess the proper term may be weed trimmer? :O
I meant to say Whackers not hackers....but your right they are trimmers.
Interesting fact, birds eat the buckthorn barries, and then can spread the seeds when they fly somewhere else and poop them out. you are better off piling up all the cut buckthorn and burning it.
Absolutely right about birds carrying the seeds. Burning it is tough. The branches are stiff and won't stack or load to haul and they only burn if you toss one at a time on to a existing bonfire. You can cut up in small pieces but that's no fun either.