Late Winter projects, locusts, cedars and new stands

[Kurt]

Always enjoy doing habitat work in late winter before the ticks and heat set in. We girdled and killed 12 large locusts and a hundred saplings this week. We also cut around 100 small cedars and a few larger ones. Trying to clear more openings in several thickets to allow more light and open up escape routes for deer.

And we got the Cage Blind Tower put up. Trying a new location and it seemed to be the best bet there. We'll add the blind in August I think. Spring turkey starts in less than a month and I'll be spraying yuccas in the afternoons. Great cure for cabin fever.

Pic is of a particularly thorny locust that I actually cut all the way down and sprayed the stump well immediately.

 

[Kurt]

If anyone needs a recipe for killing locusts, I've been using 2 quarts of Triclopyr 4 and 1.5 gallons of diesel. Same stuff kills yuccas and prickly pear cactus. I hose down the trunk and the girdle cut well and they die very nicely.

 

[Mennoniteman]

If anyone needs a recipe for killing locusts, I've been using 2 quarts of Triclopyr 4 and 1.5 gallons of diesel. Same stuff kills yuccas and prickly pear cactus. I hose down the trunk and the girdle cut well and they die very nicely.

This is one of my favorite mixes, I usually describe the mix ratio this way; 1/3 Triclopyr to 2/3 diesel fuel, which is the same as what you specify. One thing, if you have a chainsaw along to girdle cut anyway, sometimes I find it easier to just whack the tree off and spray the top of stump with the mixture. This takes less herbicide and is 100% sure death to a tree or bush.

Always enjoy doing habitat work in late winter before the ticks and heat set in. We girdled and killed 12 large locusts and a hundred saplings this week. We also cut around 100 small cedars and a few larger ones. Trying to clear more openings in several thickets to allow more light and open up escape routes for deer.

And we got the Cage Blind Tower put up. Trying a new location and it seemed to be the best bet there. We'll add the blind in August I think. Spring turkey starts in less than a month and I'll be spraying yuccas in the afternoons. Great cure for cabin fever.

Pic is of a particularly thorny locust that I actually cut all the way down and sprayed the stump well immediately.

I agree, this is the best time of year for habitat work.