I've been clearing a bunch of trees out of my pastures. They are a huge problem here, and are literally considered "weeds". Eastern Red Cedar, Chinese/Siberian elm, Honey Locust (monster thorns) and Osage Orange. I was griping to a guy about having to cut them and then dope them with Pathway or Tordon and what a hassle that was. He said he mixes the Pathway in his bar oil and just cuts away. He says it works well and kills the trees great. This sounds to me like a bad idea... Does anyone do this or heard of others mixing tree killer into their bar oil?
One other thing... What do you use to dispense the tree killer on the stump? I've always used an empty dish soap bottle and I thought maybe somebody had a better idea. I know it says to paint the stump but I don't really want to carry around a open container with a large opening for a brush.
If you don't want the tree to come back I suggest using some rock salt on the stump. I've used it with good success and very minamul Impact to the area around the stumps
Yes, I've heard of utilities and their trimming contractors doing this. I'd like to try it on one section of my woods that is nothing but asspin. Cut it and it grows right back, FAST.
Be careful in what you mix with that bar oil......keep in mind you'll be breathing some of the mist and smoke that comes from the bar when cutting with your saw, something that people overlook. My one buddy who's a professional chainsaw carver runs nothing but vegetable or olive oil in his saws because he's breathing that oil every single day, all day. ....he's the one who made me think about breathing that bar oil when we were talking last year....
I wouldnt mix anything...to bad they dont make a tackifier additive so you could just mix with canola oil..
Sounds like a terrible idea. Those herbicides are bad mojo...you don't want that stuff being flung all over you. Put a little tordon in a squeeze bottle (those restaurant mustard/ketchup bottles work great) and squirt a ring around the sapwood...fast and easy...and a lot safer.
Like x 10. Salt doesn't kill anything for me: just attracts the deer. If you want some nice closeup snaps of deer, water some weeds near your picture windows with a salt/water mixture!
As a licensed commercial applicator for chemical ask anyone mixing in anything of the sort into chain oil if they enjoy not having a future. The multiple diseases and conditions they are giving themselves by multiple modes of exposure is suicidal and not to mention a violation of the label and therefore against federal law. I am not a big environment nut or big govt guy but with what my training showed me this is pure stupidity.
^Exactly that! And if that's not enough reason, chems absolutely destroy spraying equipment even if washed, rinsed, and all that. In summary. ..if you care about yourself, family, or equipment, find another method.
Tordon comes with a replacement cap to apply right out of the quart jug. I have a small 5 oz bottle that had contact lense solution that is much easier to carry. It goes a long way.
I'm with Greenstick on this. I too am a licensed commercial applicator and have mixed up some pretty potent concoctions of chems for my own use but have always done it safely looking out for my own health and that of others. I always go per instructions for paying customer's. If you have ever pizzed blood and the doctor thinks it might be bladder cancer due to using herbicides and orders a scope of your bladder you will know what I'm talkin bout. It may sound like fun to have some young nurse scrub yer man hood and hold it for awhile but when some doctor starts stickin a tube with a camera on the end into yer pee hole all the way into yer bladder to have a look see the attraction kinda fades away.
That is funny you mentioned that. The guy worked for a while as a trimming contractor... That is what made me seriously wonder about it
That is a good idea on the contact solution bottle. My dish soap one is close to a quart and it is a pain to carry. I set it down, cut a few trees, and then play "where the heck is my bottle" I wish I could figure out a little holster thing for a 8oz or so bottle. Only thing that has stopped me is how I would make it keep the bottle in and protected from being squeezed all over me.
Up in my apple orchard I had an old tree that I cut off and had a salt block on it for years. The deer dug a good 18" below ground level eating the salt laden dirt. The wood was almost petrified and dry. I cut the exposed roots off with a saw and removed it. They did nothing to the wood.
