Longhorn87
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Most chemicals don't have grazing restrictions. You can look on the label on the bottle or look up the label on the internet to find out.I am willing to put in a lot of work. This property borders my house, so I will be able to spend a lot of my time at home working on this. Is it safe to spray this on trees that cattle are grazing around? Sorry if that is a dumb question, I am totally new to this.
.75 gal Remedy 38 oz CideKick II and 1.95 gal diesel = 3 gallon batchrecipe: 3/4 gallon of Remedy; 38 ozs. of CideKick II (a penetrating surfactant) and 1.95 gal. of diesel.
Yes the roots will grow a new plant but we prefer spot spraying the regrowth over trying to spray a larger plant.Pull them up and every broken root will sprout a new plant. They are our go-to flat makers here. And the tire guy has to get the thorn out of the ire or it will keep puncturing the tube. A real dislike for me.
I have done foliage spray but on bigger ones I like the dormant basal spray with the diesel fuel and remedy. Whatever you like.Yes the roots will grow a new plant but we prefer spot spraying the regrowth over trying to spray a larger plant.
We bought 210 acres that was covered in Honey locust. It's hard to even imagine how bad it was now. We used a skid steer with a CLfab tree puller to do some of it but finally bought a dozer to do the bulk of it. I would not mulch them. Everyone I know that mulches them has thorns everywhere and regrowth like you wouldn't believe. I could clear 3-5 acres a day with the puller. It would pull the roots out then you can shake the dirt off the root ball to get a good burn. Grazon Nxt will kill the locust too but it takes 2-3 months for bigger ones to die. We sprayed the regrowth with Nxt for several yrs after clearing was complete. Not sure how many acres you are looking at but you can buy a used skid steer and sell it for nearly what you paid these days.Has anyone had any experience clearing honey locust trees/shrubs before. I hear it can be a real pain. This is land I am looking at purchasing. What should I expect? What about flats in tractor tires?
I've still got some black locust that were too big to push over with our dozer. Not sure why I haven't thought of slicing into them with a chainsaw but I'm going to start now. I keep tordon on hand too.We make the rounds of the pastures every year and snip little ones off and spray the 'stump' with Tordon. Then pitch the little bastards in the back of the truck or utv and haul 'em to a ditch.
Several years back, we missed patrolling for 2-3 years... ended up with some that got 10 ft tall and big around as my forearm. Cows and deer eat the pods and pass scarified seed out in starter packets of fertilizer... so if you have mature, pod-bearing trees, the cows & deer will spread them around. Even the little thorns on first-year seedlings will eventually migrate through tractor tires to poke holes in innertubes.
There are some big mama trees along my creek, so big I couldn't reach around them even if they didn't have thorns... I've been girdling them with the chainsaw and squirting Tordon in the cut. Kills the hell out of them, but I'm sure I'll be dealing with the thorns for years as they fall apart. Just so many of them... gotta keep at it.
Butch, that recipe fills a 3 gallon pump up sprayer. You need to open the nozzle to shoot a stream. About half pressure and spray 2 to 3 inch band on the slick bark. One tank full will get 500 to 700 stems if you use it judiciously..75 gal Remedy 38 oz CideKick II and 1.95 gal diesel = 3 gallon batch
yes, I was wondering why the odd 1.95 gallons of diesel, doing the math I realized it was bcs 2 gallons wouldn't fit. lolButch, that recipe fills a 3 gallon pump up sprayer.