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mdm1 
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 Posted: 22 Aug 2016 at 6:16pm |
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If you have one call your county forester. I know people will think differently but I have nothing but good luck dealing with ours. They get paid to help you out and do enjoy it. They can give the right advice.
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Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK!
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EPALLIS
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Posted: 22 Aug 2016 at 8:04pm |
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Mulberry trees are not that evil. Don't kill them all....
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DiyDave
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Posted: 22 Aug 2016 at 8:36pm |
 DocUSMC wrote:
Of the above chemicals, do any kill the saplings but will not kill grass. I have cut down a large mulberry tree but cant seem to control the saplings. Any help will do.
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Garlon/tordon are the same chemical, more or less. Won't kill grass, but may kill other trees, nearby, if they have grafts (root interfaces) with the mulberry. When in doubt, always follow the directions, on the label. By the way, post is 4 years old, any input from the OP, on success or failure? 
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DIESEL
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Posted: 22 Aug 2016 at 10:00pm |
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I work for a power company here in Nebraska an REA. We fight all types of trees that's the nature of the job, we spray all of our stumps with Pathfinder 2. It works very well and it will kill all types of trees without cutting them off, you just spray around the trunk at the base of the tree. It will even kill eastern red cedars if you spray the whole tree.
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 4:33am |
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I use the tree puller Coke's son made for me, but if I can't get back into the tree with my 7010, i'll cut it down with a chain saw and spray tordon over the whole stump. oh...and if you use tordon, throw the little nozzle away they attatch to the bottle, that wastes to much of it. get a hand spray bottle and use that. old windex sprayers works well. I use tordon, because it works on all trees, and because it's readily available here compared to the other chemicals listed that work too! in the spring, if you don't have time to cut a lot before planting, if you walk or drive along the edge of the field and cut off a branch that's sticking out into the field, spray that where you cut it off the main tree, by late summer/fall that tree will be dead. mulberry is great firewood if you heat with wood. and if you do woodworking, mulberry makes really pretty coffee table tops!
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 11:56am |
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The variety of Mullberry trees around here, bulldozers won't tear them down in any way that will stop them from sprouting everywhere else. If you don't take action to dry out the roots, they're just gonna sprout everywhere that there's roots.
As for chemicals, I've had good luck cutting the smaller appearances (under say... 10" diameter) and paint the top of the stump with TORDON RTU, and that seems to work well.
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Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest.
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Dan73
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 12:05pm |
EPALLIS wrote:
Mulberry trees are not that evil. Don't kill them all.... |
That is what I was thinking they make great jelly. Now that stinking suemack that I got all over the place I need to get some good chemicals to kill that crap.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 2:33pm |
DaveKamp wrote:
As for chemicals, I've had good luck cutting the smaller appearances (under say... 10" diameter) and paint the top of the stump with TORDON RTU, and that seems to work well. |
Dave, I hope you don't waste that stuff by painting the WHOLE 10 inchs  It only needs painted around the growth ring just below the bark.
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 4:22pm |
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the mulberries also have good health benefits to people!
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DiyDave
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 5:44pm |
shameless (ne) wrote:
the mulberries also have good health benefits to people!
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But for lawns, and laundry on a line, underneath one, not so much...
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dawntreader74
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 10:05pm |
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when you cut one down' grind the stump out' thin your over with it.
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Dan73
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Posted: 23 Aug 2016 at 11:35pm |
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Well if you put the laundry under one you got what you deserve for not thinking through where you put it.... as to the lawn well yes it does make a mess of that and the bird dropping make an extra special mess out of your car.
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 24 Aug 2016 at 2:38am |
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when I see mulberry trees growing, I wait til they is about 5 inches in diameter, then cut them. it's for the firewood thing. just big nuff, and don't hafta split it! and round firewood burns longer than split firewood!
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