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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 03:17:28 No.2791551 View View Reply Original Report

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Anyone else like going out into parks and wild area and killing invasive species? I’m in Washington State and we have a huge problem with English laurel, English Holley, English Ivy, and Himalayan Blackberry. I love hiking off trail to topple over a 25 foot English laurel with my saw. I follow up with planting native trees and shrubs.
Anyone else do this? Show photos of progress or invasive removal toolkit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 03:20:19 No.2791552 Report

Quoted By: >>2791553 >>2791574 >>2792221

Imagine doing the job of a forest janny, but without compensation. You should have more respect for yourself bro.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 03:28:40 No.2791553 Report

Quoted By: >>2791576 >>2792221

>>2791552
HE LITERALLY DOES IT FOR FREE
YOU CANT FUCKIN MAKE THIS STUFF UP
SCREENSHOT IT BOYS

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 05:02:03 No.2791574 Report

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>>2791552
Not everything needs to be a monetary exchange bro. He does it because it's right and he likes it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 05:12:23 No.2791576 Report

Quoted By: >>2791583

>>2791551
Yes
I murder Ivy, scotch broom and Himalayan blackberries mostly.
>>2791553
I did more volunteer work before I turned 20 than you have done in your entire life.
Not everyone is takers anon.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 06:21:46 No.2791583 Report

Quoted By: >>2791591 >>2792319

>>2791576
You might say... you do it for free.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 07:53:19 No.2791591 Report

Quoted By: >>2791606

>>2791583
It actually costs money. I bought equipment and I also have to buy maintenance supplies like oil and brushes.
Unlike jannies I don't get to submit bans for trivial shit when someone hurts my fee fees in a thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:22:02 No.2791606 Report

Quoted By: >>2791988

>>2791591
incredibly based. i used to do this with a group of other people and we had to stop because we did everything in our area over the course of a few years. no more blackberries or hawthorn or st johns wart for 20kms
what tools are you using? you mention oil, are power tools necessary? we just used mattocks, machetes, gloves and sacks

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 16:52:08 No.2791643 Report

Quoted By: >>2791791 >>2791990

Invasive plants almost always just get eaten by deers. What really needs to go is these fucking hellspawn.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 17:21:45 No.2791647 Report

Quoted By: >>2791782 >>2795045

>>2791551
I used to get rid of Himalayan balsam. It's very invasive in the UK (particularly around our polluted rivers). But it's a losing battle so I stopped.

You can pull up thousands of it, and it's satisfying to do (because it comes out so easy with tiny roots), but it spreads so quickly and extensively that there will be twice as much the following year.

I hate it because it stinks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Dec 2024 06:01:18 No.2791782 Report

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>>2791647
That sounds like it sucks. I know the UK and parts of the US are dealing with a Japanese Knotweed problem. Another horrible invasive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Dec 2024 08:24:58 No.2791791 Report

Quoted By: >>2791990

>>2791643
>Invasive plants almost always just get eaten by deers
i have yet to see that and i have multiple deer on my property.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Dec 2024 15:51:26 No.2791834 Report

Quoted By: >>2791990

>>2791551
I would, but since I don't know plants very well, I'm afraid of accidentally uprooting something that looks similar to an invasive species but was actually native.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Dec 2024 23:46:42 No.2791988 Report

Quoted By: >>2792019

>>2791606
Saw, machete, shovels and some rakes. The Saw and machete are tool steel so I oil them after use so they don't rust. I have a folding shovel that's an old marine style I oil the folding pins on as well. I don't use power tools because I'm not trying to attract attention.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 Dec 2024 23:50:47 No.2791990 Report

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>>2791791
>>2791643
Deer don't eat most invasive plants. They will eat English laurel at certain times of the season but only the new shoots. They won't touch scotch broom or ivy.
>>2791834
Besides grasses I've yet to encounter an invasive species that looked remotely like native species. Himalayan blackberries are obviously not local because all the local ones are trailing (grow along the ground) where Himalayan are erect. The Himalayan are also much bigger even as a sprout.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 03 Dec 2024 04:17:35 No.2792019 Report

Quoted By: >>2792023

>>2791988
get yourself a mattock like picrel. its by far the most useful tool for weed stomping, one swing at the ground takes out any weed assuming that the "trunk" is narrower than the handle (just an estimation). aim about 5cms below the ground where the plant is coming from
saws are a waste of time unless you need to take down a tree taller than you are, and then also need to carry it out. otherwise just mattock the roots and knock it over and leave it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Dec 2024 04:48:01 No.2792023 Report

Quoted By: >>2792024 >>2792237

>>2792019
If my timing is right I can pull the scotch broom up from the roots. I almost never need to dig. Some of the older scotch broom I use a Hori Hori just to loosen the roots. The Himalayan blackberries get the machete. I just need to keep them at bay until they're choked out by other species.

Occasionally I do saw down some massive scotch broom I find--several inches at the trunk but they seem to stay dead. I rarely use the saw. Mostly I pull stuff up.

I do top thistles before they go to seed--same deal they eventually are strangled out by other species and they often get infected by fungus from continually being topped before going to seed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 Dec 2024 04:57:16 No.2792024 Report

Quoted By: >>2792259

>>2792023
>I just need to keep them at bay until they're choked out
if you chop out the rhizome with the mattock you never need to come back and you dont have to fuck around with reseeding
>I rarely use the saw
why bring it? you can bring out more if you bring in less
>hand pulling, if your "timing" is right
ok if you like this i guess its whatever but its not the fastest way to deal with thousands of weeds and its certainly not the easiest

i mean no criticism though, you are doing great work but you could be doing it a bit better

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 05:12:20 No.2792200 Report

Quoted By: >>2792220

>>2791551
>Himalayan Blackberry
Just found out you can basically genocide these fuckers and no one can say shit about it. Got a spot picked out I'm going to release some rage on in the spring.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 13:59:27 No.2792220 Report

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>>2792200
Is that because they're a class C weed (in Washington state anyway)
They really are a horrible weed, its amazing how much land is covered in that shit when it could be hosting a native species.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 14:15:35 No.2792221 Report

Quoted By: >>2792259

>>2791552
>>2791553
Holy fucking kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 16:03:20 No.2792237 Report

Quoted By: >>2792239 >>2792260

>>2792023
>Hori Hori
im so fucking dumb, years ago i chopped off the tip of my left index finger with one of those clearing invasive plants from the periphery of our greenhouse lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 16:25:23 No.2792239 Report

Quoted By: >>2792260

>>2792237
Hori shet

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 18:17:09 No.2792259 Report

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>>2792221
>I live to take
>I even steal old jokes that have been spammed here for literally decades
We get it subhuman, you don't give one shit about preserving nature.
>>2792024
>the saw
I use it for Ivy

I'm not offended in the least--my methods would make sense if you saw what I was working with. I like maddocs but one of my other requirements is being able to hide all my gear. It all fits neatly into a bag.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 18:19:15 No.2792260 Report

Quoted By: >>2792262 >>2792311 >>2794913

>>2792239
>>2792237
This is probably one of the best gardening tools I've ever owned. It is absolutely sharp as fuck from the factory and stays sharp a long time. I have round-files I use to sharpen it from time to time but I've never gotten it as sharp as from the factory.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 18:23:05 No.2792262 Report

Quoted By: >>2792408 >>2794913

>>2792260
That's the A.M. Leonard one right? Are those full tang? I put a lot of pressure on my Hori Hori knife and its not full tang, the wood handle probably won't last too long.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 01:19:26 No.2792311 Report

Quoted By: >>2792408

>>2792260
yep, i learned that the hard way!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 02:21:18 No.2792315 Report

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>>2791551
I've done buffelgrass removal. Eurasian collared doves have no bag or possession limit in AZ but I've only ever seen them innacity. If I find a flock innamountains I will eat them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 03:17:06 No.2792319 Report

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>>2791583
Put em clutch

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 20:57:18 No.2792408 Report

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>>2792262
I'm not sure if it's full tang or not but I've stomped the shit out of it and the handle hasn't broken off yet. I put enough pressure on it to slightly bend the blade (which took a lot) and it still hasn't broken.
>>2792311
When I first got it like a retard I brushed the serrations to see how sharp it was and it sliced the fuck out of my thumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Dec 2024 22:36:22 No.2794827 Report

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>>2791551
I only do this on my own property but alot of the worst problems are going to be too virile to put a real dent in.

Like popcorn tree for example. Hack and squirt with imazapyr does a pretty good job but you would never make a dent just chopping them down.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2024 07:18:00 No.2794913 Report

Quoted By: >>2795137

I'll rip up salsify, prickly lettuce, cheatgrass, etc. If I'm stopped in an area and there's a small enough amount that I can make a dent in it without getting sucked in for hours
>>2792260
Flat file on the concave side edge does wonders, the edges like to curl up and make it hard to get anything but a rounded edge
>>2792262
They're pretty retard proof, I've never heard of one breaking

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2024 18:28:04 No.2794992 Report

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>be native plant
>honed by millions of years of evolution to perfectly thrive in your local soil type, climate, etc.
>get absolutely mogged by a plant that evolved in a completely different environment on the other side of the world
?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Dec 2024 21:06:04 No.2795007 Report

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>>2791551
Just be careful, it's easy to make a mistake, maybe you should leave it to professionals or at least consult with park administrators about what you're doing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2024 00:15:15 No.2795045 Report

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>>2791647
>I used to get rid of Himalayan balsam. It's very invasive in the UK (particularly around our polluted rivers)
Oh no, beautiful flowers growing prosperously in a *checks notes* polluted wasteland

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2024 16:46:27 No.2795137 Report

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>>2794913
>They're pretty retard proof
i cut my left index finger tip off with one so there's that

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2024 16:55:52 No.2795138 Report

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>>2791551
>Anyone else like going out into parks and wild area and killing

Oh yeah

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