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Did someone say Goat Girl ??
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Any regrowth after the dozer is easily smoked with spraywhen it comes back up.
proper cleaning and fuel line replacement works wonders on those things...and a new plug.Looks like chemicals are abou the best, and most convenient way to go.
Side note, but somewhat related - I have an older Craftsman chainsaw and a Ryobi string trimmer - neither ow which is currently running. I think both need a good cleaning and tune up. Just curious if anyone knows someone in the area of Oregon City, Gladstone, West Linn that maybe does small engine stuff like this without costing a ton? If the cost is too high, I'll probably just replace them at some point. I'd even be interested if someone knows a young person that is working on these skills and could use some projects for practice.
Any thoughts?
What I had was not new growth, but blackberries that grew for over a decade.Just finished another 1/4 of my mess of a yard earlier today.
4 cycle craftsman trimmer with industrial string and it decimated the berries, 4 foot tall grass, weeds (not weed), ivy etc.
<parents tool as I'm not a huge fan of craftsman tools unless it's wrenches and screwdrivers, BUT it has a drill bit attachment that lets you crank the motor over with a drill - very handy for getting it running for the first time in over a year>
Never even had to put the brush cutting blade on it.
If I ever get on top of my stuff And you haven't got it going at your place I'll toss it in the car and come chuck bits of vegetation everywhere for ya. I'm not raking though.
It doesn't take much - they grow almost anywhereI just wish I had enough land to have a blackberry problem lol.
What I had was not new growth, but blackberries that grew for over a decade.
I could get at it with the trimmer, but it took for ever and it wasn't very good at it.
What took me days of work was over in 30 minutes with the dozer. I went after other patches with the flail mower and took them down with it too, just took a bit longer and was harder.
I didn't realize that an Android phone could cause this sort of problem.
Who knew?
Oh I have them...just doesn't take that much effort to keep them at bay...and I'm not doing my neighbors work for them...It doesn't take much - they grow almost anywhere
Sometimes they are a good thing. Beside providing fruit (if they get enough sun), they can provide a bit of a security barrier. Everyday I drive past a bit of land my family used to farm - an orchard along a road. The current owners have created a barrier from the road to prevent people from seeing much of the orchard much less going in and picking the fruit. The barrier consists of wild blackberries brambles that have grown over limbs and such that they stacked there from pruning the trees every year. The limbs compress down under their own weight and that of the brambles, but are pretty high and dense - about 10 feet high now. I saw recently where a car hit the barrier (it is on an S-curve) and didn't put much of a dent in it - just uncovered the underlying branches.
If a person puts a substantial barrier under the brambles, and then lets the brambles grow over it, that can keep vehicles out, and people - nobody likes walking through those brambles.
One suggestion I have is posts with a cable strung between them:
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Even if they manage to break one or two posts by striking them, the rest of the posts generally hold them from going further.
If I let my berries go for a decade not only would my house be engulfed but my neighbors on three sides of me as well
Keeping them cut back won't kill them, just keeps them cut back - they will keep returning.
Get a goat. Duh.
Hawthorne is the easiest to remove but the most evil of the three, because the deep puncture wounds of the thorns can get nasty infections.