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We are in Queensland Australia. We can work 5-6 hours a day during Winter, but Summer hours are early morming hours before 9:00 am before it reaches 30+ deg C. We are now 4 weeks into Spring with the weather getting warmer. I have pulled 40+ small prickly pear plants and have to go back, pull...

Are your prickly pears low lying cactii or trees? We have big prickly pear trees on our property, up to 20' high. I will check out the link. Thank you!

Well. we checked every day for the past 10 days and got most of the fireweed off. We will start looking mid to late July for the green shoots. We have alot of pesky kangaroo grass in some pastures. Cattle graze around it. We mowed (flail mower) it last year once only. This year we have...

We have started our Spring slashing. 2 days into it and the flail mower is broken. Having a look at it shortly. We have to clear some timber in the big center paddock before we slash. Nearly done scanning and pulling bloody fireweed. UPDATE: Drive belts on the flail mower are stuffed.

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The average adult has 4 g of glucose in their blood at optimal blood glucose levels. 1 tsp sugar turns to 4 g glucose which doubles your blood glucose. 1 slice of bread has maybe 15 g carbohydrates which turns to 15 g glucose in the blood, basically nearly 5x your normal blood glucose. At my...

Thank you O_K! We can slash/flail mow on 2/3 of our property. We should have slashed our biggest paddock mid summer, we did not and there were 50+ fireweeds hidden there, each had gone partly to seed. Do you slash regularly? On winter?

Hi Oz_K! We are near Warwick. We have been here 5 years - we bought at the height of the drought. When the rain came in late 2019, we could not get on our property for close to 3 years! The weeds seem to have been persistent. We are now careful not to overgraze and at the moment use a flail...

Thanks everyone! Plastic bags on the Mule and Quad is a very good idea!

We were working today in the middle 20 acre section and I pulled up more fireweed plants that we had missed on the first pass. Here in South East Qld we have the yellow flowered toxic mongrel weeds.

I got good advice to remove our infestation of fire weed, but in South East Qld some of the the weeds have already seeded. We are pulling them out anyway. We found lots of fireweed in one paddock which was not grazed and not slashed so the grass is high and we just didn't think. Member...

We have now chopped, burned and mulched all prickly pear chopped in our first section. Only the stumps need pulling. Our mulcher should be fixed soon. We are now picking up fallen timber on the middle section. Tomorrow we plan to pull weeds, gather more timber and prepare to burn. Only 8...

One of our very large trees after sawing.

Prickly Pear now mulched. Mulched PP has not returned in three years. Sad news is that our mulcher is awaiting repair. Bearings look stuffed.

Prickly Pear to be mulched