Fighting Nature

Been one of those weeks already, is STILL Saturday for me but man what a set of Saturdays its been.

To start off dropped a bunch of Honey locust in the Cemetery in our front yard, been piecemeal cleaning it up as I can, leaves were off and bugs down so good time to get after. Dropped SIX HL trees from 2-14" across at base, Tordon on the stumps and then cut them down where could pallet fork move BIG pieces to a brush pile TO ROT awhile? Monday I received my LP Fuel alternate Fuel sticker for the old GMC, took it down to MFA on Tuesday to get filled but would not take any, the old 80% liquid auto shut off fill port had failed, Obsolete and no parts available so the Gas guys ordered a new fill port as well a 80% fuel gauge check port as is how business is done these days, SHOULD be here tomorrow and pick the old wagon up late day.


Meanwhile Shameless has US in his sights come Friday so aired the slow leak L Fr on the 180(thorns) and slung chains to it then put it in the shop replaced the tube, pulled as many thorns as could locate(2) and disassembled the L Fr hub for new bearings as THEY Were Bad!! Not a good time!!








Edited by DMiller - 09 Jan 2019 at 2:44pm

Hate those honey locust.  Wouldn't drive your tractor anywhere near where they fell for like 5 years.....those thorns never seem to die or "rot away".  I had a very small branch left over at the side of the rode and somehow, someway that thing ended up in the sidewall of my truck tire;  pffffft.Love to burn them and hear those thorns popping away knowing there never going to get my tires!

Black Locust appear similar but next to no thorns. We have both on the property where I keep the Blacks and burn out the Honey locusts. Large tree to the right and the three set of small trees directly in front of that in the cleared mess photo are all Black Locust and will be spared for shade & eventual firewood.

Edited by DMiller - 09 Jan 2019 at 6:20pm

Some of our Black Locust are close to 30" across at the base, rival some White oak for size. One at that old cemetery got hit by lightning dropped it a few weeks back and after two years STILL solid and oily in the main trunk. it was 22" across.

Edited by DMiller - 10 Jan 2019 at 6:33am

Problem with the Dozer is the roots, every Live root left in the ground will sapling out, seen it happen and is NOT pretty. Takes Grazon or a mix of 2-4-D Tordon and Crossbow to kill those off which could take years. Drop the trees, Tordon or and I cannot think the other product, the stumps the root systems die then only have to deal with Seedlings that tend to stay localized.