Watch This Before Buying Cows

[Travlr]

I see Matthews does a lot of portraits.

This is one I did a few years ago.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

These are 2 of the prints in mentioned. I couldn't find a picture of the third one. The first one is hanging in my living room. The second one is the one I lost in a house fire.


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I've seen these, and I remember Captain Cook's Troubles! Had it 'pictured' (pardon the pun) in my mind before I scrolled down.

 

[Dave]

I've seen these, and I remember Captain Cook's Troubles! Had it 'pictured' (pardon the pun) in my mind before I scrolled down.

Camp Cook not Captain Cook. There is another one that has a similar theme. That one is Bronc to Breakfast.

 

[Dave]

One of the things that impressed be about the museum was how much more vivid the colors were. Prints don't do them justice. Some of the pictures looked like they were in 3D.

Absolutely. Evey time I get to see some of his originals I am really impressed by his talent.

A man I met owns an original. He has it out on loan to a museum. He said his Grandmother won it in a bingo game over by Great Falls. He said she was mad because that was second prize in the game. First prize was a vacuum cleaner. Said she really wanted the vacuum cleaner. (her words) She didn't want a painting by that drunken Charlie Russell.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

If you want to cut them do in the winter after leaves fall. Then spray the cut surface of the stump with a Remedy diesel mix. It will take the herbicide down into the roots and kill it all.

@kenny thomas, I've never recommended spraying the cut stumps in winter. You want to do this immediately (fresh cut-15-30 minutes post cut) in the fall when the sap is going down. Spraying a cut stump in the winter, fresh or not, the herbicide isn't going to be translocated.

Navigating the brush once the leaves fall admittedly is much easier, and easier to cut brush, but painting cut surfaces with herbicide is going to have limited effectiveness then.

Did I miss something?

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Camp Cook not Captain Cook. There is another one that has a similar theme. That one is Bronc to Breakfast.

That might have been it. Like I mentioned yesterday, it's been awhile since I've admired his work. I'm not meaning to miss the titles....10,000 vs 5,000, Camp vs Captain. Sorry!

 

[kenny thomas]

@kenny thomas, I've never recommended spraying the cut stumps in winter. You want to do this immediately (fresh cut-15-30 minutes post cut) in the fall when the sap is going down. Spraying a cut stump in the winter, fresh or not, the herbicide isn't going to be translocated.

Navigating the brush once the leaves fall admittedly is much easier, and easier to cut brush, but painting cut surfaces with herbicide is going to have limited effectiveness then.

Did I miss something?

Well i have done probably 100 acres on old strip mine land in the winter to plant American Chestnut in the spring. Plus every fence row i have cut out on my farms i do that. It works.
And yes spraying soon is best but i have done it a couple hours later.

 

[kenny thomas]

Remedy or Garlon 3A are what i have used. Garlon is 60+% triclopyr and Remedy is 40+% triclopyr if my memory is correct. Here Garlon is restricted and is only recommended for Forestry applications. Remedy is used pretty widely for small brush and weeds.
Crossbow is 24D and Remedy.
And yes until recently i had my commercial applicators license so i cant buy Garlon now. I like it better for winter applications because its stronger.

 

[ClinchValley86]

Herbicides =

 

[kenny thomas]

Herbicides =

I dont recommend herbicides much except for spot spraying or stump treatments. In our area we can do more harm than good

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Well i have done probably 100 acres on old strip mine land in the winter to plant American Chestnut in the spring. Plus every fence row i have cut out on my farms i do that. It works.
And yes spraying soon is best but i have done it a couple hours later.

Sounds good. Just seemed awfully late in the year to be effective. What brush are targeting primarily? Although it sounds like 'everything'. A couple hours is good. Don't want to see anyone wait 24 hrs though.

 

[kenny thomas]

I would never wait 24 hours. We targeted Black Locust and Autumn Olive mostly, and here on the farm i have used it on every species. Privit seems to be the hardest thing for me to kill.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

I would never wait 24 hours. We targeted Black Locust and Autumn Olive mostly, and here on the farm i have used it on every species. Privit seems to be the hardest thing for me to kill.

You said 'strip mine' and I was thinking to myself....surely not autumn olive, and then you had to throw in privet too! Are you sure you aren't over in Belmont county up here?

 

[SoilBuilder]

...have no idea how to actually kill those trees. Seems you can cut them back to the ground twice a year and it's just like foreplay for them...

 

[kenny thomas]

You said 'strip mine' and I was thinking to myself....surely not autumn olive, and then you had to throw in privet too! Are you sure you aren't over in Belmont county up here?

We didn't have much Privit on the old mines but millions of Autumn Olive. Lots of Black Locust too. Most were planted because it was cheap and the state accepted it as a hardwood and as wildlife planting. Nothing grows under them and whe you kill them there is hundreds of seed ready to take their place.

 

[Travlr]

We didn't have much Privit on the old mines but millions of Autumn Olive. Lots of Black Locust too. Most were planted because it was cheap and the state accepted it as a hardwood and as wildlife planting. Nothing grows under them and whe you kill them there is hundreds of seed ready to take their place.

Gubmint's done a lot of harm in the name of making improvements...

The thing I regret is the way they've replaced native trout with sterile cross breeds.

 

[kenny thomas]

Gubmint's done a lot of harm in the name of making improvements...

The thing I regret is the way they've replaced native trout with sterile cross breeds.

Most of what they do is just for the money. Ky stocked Elk a few years ago and Virginia raised heck. Said it was gonna cause disease. When Ky started making lots of money from the Elk Virginia decided it was a grest idea and stocked Elk. 2 or 3 years ago Ky lost hundreds of Elk to disease but neither state will admit it.

 

[Lucky]

We bought 210 acres several years back that was 90% covered in Honey and Black Locust trees. We got it all cleared and continue to fight the regrowth. I haven't read this entire thread but I really hope nobody is talked into letting Locust trees grow.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

We didn't have much Privit on the old mines but millions of Autumn Olive. Lots of Black Locust too. Most were planted because it was cheap and the state accepted it as a hardwood and as wildlife planting. Nothing grows under them and whe you kill them there is hundreds of seed ready to take their place.

You can add to the reasons for autumn olive in that it one of the few things that would establish, readily establish, and grow fast on the reclaimed mine soil, which tended to be way out of balance nutrient wise, mineral wise and structure (was none) wise for about anything to grow. The problem is that autumn olive establishes faster and better than just about anything on any soil. I've got to pull seedlings out of my yard 3-4 times a year.

 

[Dave]

Back when I fell timber we did a lot of Weyhauser ground. They gave us boxes of bottles with Tordon to paint the stumps of broadleaf maple. Other wise the maples came back from the stump and they didn't want them.