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Sounds like typical city people moving to the country to be in nature and then spending thousands of dollars to make it look as much like a golf course as possible.
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I don’t know what big foler considers forest, but my 5 acres has dozens of pine and wild cherry trees. When I bought the place a couple years ago, I spent all summer with an ax and chain uprooting and clearing pine saplings and vines. Now I only have to mow it with my lawn tractor a couple times a year. That’s enough to allow easy movement and keeps vines and saplings from maturing to the point I can’t mow over them (and I can access and enjoy my entire property).
 
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Dandai said:
I don’t know what big foler considers forest, but my 5 acres has dozens of pine and wild cherry trees. When I bought the place a couple years ago, I spent all summer with an ax and chain uprooting and clearing pine saplings and vines. Now I only have to mow it with my lawn tractor a couple times a year. That’s enough to allow easy movement and keeps vines and saplings from maturing to the point I can’t mow over them (and I can access and enjoy my entire property).
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It’s weird he never supplies pictures to help us understand his quandary.
 
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It’s weird he never supplies pictures to help us understand his quandary.
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Sigh. I’ll throw something up once I get back to WiFi. I don’t want you autists using cloud patterns and wind cycles ala Shia lebouf to dox me.
 
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So this is a small portion facing one of my forests. That forest is thick and I can paths wide enough for walking through it. Other than that I don’t touch it. All the grass you see in the wide open (there’s a lot more, especially in the field), I keep mowed. I don’t touch the forest.

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The fs 560 is a fucking beast. Before and after clearing out small camphors and shit around my palm trees near house.

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Sounds like typical city people moving to the country to be in nature and then spending thousands of dollars to make it look as much like a golf course as possible.
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LOL no. My property is fucking pristine in that it hasn’t been touched like the development around it. It’s absolutely a priceless piece of land. I grew up with land. My family did land. You see we were land people when there wasn’t much here. No we never did development because that was for faggots.

I keep it natural but maintained.
 
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Dandai said:
I don’t know what big foler considers forest, but my 5 acres has dozens of pine and wild cherry trees. When I bought the place a couple years ago, I spent all summer with an ax and chain uprooting and clearing pine saplings and vines. Now I only have to mow it with my lawn tractor a couple times a year. That’s enough to allow easy movement and keeps vines and saplings from maturing to the point I can’t mow over them (and I can access and enjoy my entire property).
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Parts of my property have forest on it. The density of that forest varies from sparse to thick as fuck. I don’t touch the forest other than keeping paths mowed through a portion of it. A large portion of my land has open areas (see pics)
 
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So this is a small portion facing one of my forests. That forest is thick and I can paths wide enough for walking through it. Other than that I don’t touch it. All the grass you see in the wide open (there’s a lot more, especially in the field), I keep mowed. I don’t touch the forest.

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The fs 560 is a fucking beast. Before and after clearing out small camphors and shit around my palm trees near house.

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Anyone use round up? I wanna kill all these fucking vines and bullshit around these palm trees. Is round up the way to go? Vines are choking them.
 
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Anyone use round up? I wanna kill all these fucking vines and bullshit around these palm trees. Is round up the way to go? Vines are choking them.
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I don’t know if round up will be effective. I mow over what I can, but hedge trimmers or loppers will get the job done if you don’t have a mower. Just cut them at the ground level and they’ll wilt over a week or so.
 
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General rule: The more woody it is, le less well roundup works.

That said, it will kill anything green that photosynthesizes, so it does help reduce green biomass. You may not kill the plant if its too woody/hardy, though. If the stems are soft and green, you'll probably have reasonable success. The florida sun/heat helps.

You can also rent a 36-42" walk/ride behind brush cutter to clear anything too much for your weed whacker. Regardless of what you do, youll have to keep it maintained or it will grow back thick in a single season with all the rain/sun you get.

IMO you need a small tractor with a mower and/or bush hog, which would make quick work of anything up to 2 inch diameter.
 
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Anyone ever deal with bed bugs before? Had a friend come through for a few days a month or so ago and apparently deposited them in my place from the grody motel-6 or whatever he stayed at in Kansas on the way out here.

Already had an exterminator out and they death-bombed my place, but it doesn't seem to have done the job cause I'm still getting my legs chewed up overnight.

How much of my furniture am I looking at having to sacrifice you think? Or is it possible to salvage the bed and some other larger stuff if I just liberally hose it down with spray from Home Depot or whatever? I've already basically conceded that my couch has to go cause that's where they originated from I assume, and it's an old piece of shit anyway.
 
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Anyone ever deal with bed bugs before? Had a friend come through for a few days a month or so ago and apparently deposited them in my place from the grody motel-6 or whatever he stayed at in Kansan on the way out here.

Already had an exterminator out and they death-bombed my place, but it doesn't seem to have done the job cause I'm still getting my legs chewed up overnight.

How much of my furniture am I looking at having to sacrifice you think? Or is it possible to salvage the bed and some other larger stuff if I just liberally hose it down with spray from Home Depot or whatever? I've already basically conceded that my couch has to go cause that's where they originated from I assume, and it's an old piece of shit anyway.
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I've not dealt with them personally, but a friend of the family had them and they essentially got rid of everything. Good luck :cinnamilk:
 
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Trees and Brush = Tordon

Usually you need to cut the stuff out, then you apply a liberal amount to the stumps/cuts. But it works very well.
 
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General rule: The more woody it is, le less well roundup works.

That said, it will kill anything green that photosynthesizes, so it does help reduce green biomass. You may not kill the plant if its too woody/hardy, though. If the stems are soft and green, you'll probably have reasonable success. The florida sun/heat helps.

You can also rent a 36-42" walk/ride behind brush cutter to clear anything too much for your weed whacker. Regardless of what you do, youll have to keep it maintained or it will grow back thick in a single season with all the rain/sun you get.

IMO you need a small tractor with a mower and/or bush hog, which would make quick work of anything up to 2 inch diameter.
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Tractor with mower is really the way to go.

unfortunately in the summer my river floods and so you can’t get down there with a tractor. So gotta weed eat it or if it’s heavy shit use the fs 560.


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Trees and Brush = Tordon

Usually you need to cut the stuff out, then you apply a liberal amount to the stumps/cuts. But it works very well.
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I’ve never heard of tordon.. so one problem I have is all these small stumps over on part of the property I had cleared. Maybe ranging from 2-8 inches in diameter. It annoys my mower dude to mow it because of them and I trip all the time because of them. What will tordon do? Kill it but I still have to dig it up? See pic below.

NOTE: this is right next to a river so maybe I need to be careful about using shit like tordon here?

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I don't know about Florida but here Tordon is restricted use so you need a private applicator's license to buy it. It's good for deep rooted plants though because it goes down in the roots rather than just killing the above-ground vegetation like Roundup or 2, 4-D. I'm not really a fan of herbicide though. Maybe I'm just traumatized by leafy spurge but it seems like it's never a real solution.

If you're doing serious weed-eating the ones with wheels are pretty sweet.

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BrutulTM said:
I don't know about Florida but here Tordon is restricted use so you need a private applicator's license to buy it. It's good for deep rooted plants though because it goes down in the roots rather than just killing the above-ground vegetation like Roundup or 2, 4-D. I'm not really a fan of herbicide though. Maybe I'm just traumatized by leafy spurge but it seems like it's never a real solution.

If you're doing serious weed-eating the ones with wheels are pretty sweet.

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While those are sweet, they don't have as easy mobility as the ones you strap on or carry. And if you're working around stumps and roots I have to think the wheels would actually be a liability.

Bush hog behind a tractor is the way to go.
 
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What will tordon do? Kill it but I still have to dig it up? See pic below.
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Yeah. They 100% won't grow back, but you'll still be tripping over dead stumps everywhere.

I've just ground down handfuls of stumps with chainsaws, or cut downward at angles then broken the stumps off underground. Yeah, it's gonna dull your blades, but that's one way to do it w/o burning or getting a stump grinder, I guess.

But I wouldn't bother doing that if you have a LOT of stumps.

This is where a tractor with a backhoe attachment might come in handy, as long as the stumps are relatively small.
 
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So I have chain fencing around my property. Cleared vines from it by fucking hand last summer and of course they grow right back fast.

Herbicide a better option? If so recommendations?
 
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Tractor with mower is really the way to go.

unfortunately in the summer my river floods and so you can’t get down there with a tractor. So gotta weed eat it or if it’s heavy shit use the fs 560.



I’ve never heard of tordon.. so one problem I have is all these small stumps over on part of the property I had cleared. Maybe ranging from 2-8 inches in diameter. It annoys my mower dude to mow it because of them and I trip all the time because of them. What will tordon do? Kill it but I still have to dig it up? See pic below.

NOTE: this is right next to a river so maybe I need to be careful about using shit like tordon here?

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Big foler, don’t be a biggoty bitch. Get yourself an axe and take some swings. Aim for the edges at about 45 degrees and you’ll have those stumps below grade in no time.

That picture demonstrates why I took the time to use my truck, a chain, and an old tire rim to pull up the trees (the pictures stump/tree probably would’ve been too big to pull, but I would’ve tried!). I have no tiny stumps like that on my property. Unfortunately the big fucking stumps I do have aren’t practical to hack at with an axe. That’s why I burn them wirh my leaf blower technique.
 
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Yeah. They 100% won't grow back, but you'll still be tripping over dead stumps everywhere.

I've just ground down handfuls of stumps with chainsaws, or cut downward at angles then broken the stumps off underground. Yeah, it's gonna dull your blades, but that's one way to do it w/o burning or getting a stump grinder, I guess.

But I wouldn't bother doing that if you have a LOT of stumps.

This is where a tractor with a backhoe attachment might come in handy, as long as the stumps are relatively small.
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Problem is you can’t get a tractor down right now due to summer rain. Ordered tordon to try.

If I were to use a stump grinder - is it better to kill it with tordon then grind it or is tordon unnecessary? I just want low enough to the ground to where I’m not tripping over it, can mow over it and it won’t grow back.
 
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