Hedge trimmer for cutting back raspbery bushes?

[Uncle Lar]

My mistake, it's the 24inch 40 volt. Does a great job.

 

[fried1765]

Or hire a spray plane to do it in a single pass. 2-4-D will kill the trees along with berrys either way. Mis-use of pesticides by misinformed and uninformed consumers is why many are no longer available without permit. If you resort to spray,for goodness' sake use Glyphosate aka Roundup. 2-4-D presist's in soil for months and leaches to be picked up by roots.

Yup! Glyphosate will knock the vines down, but some will come back in the following season.
2-4-D will actually kill the vines.......PERMANENTLY!

 

[TomSeller]

Agree, Roundup does not work well on berries.

 

[jimainiac]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Some of these trails are off our property, where neighbors let us ride. That rules out pesticides or heavy equipment. It has to be something I can carry as I walk through. Sounds like the hedge trimmer idea might work, and since I already have a bunch of Ryobi 18 volt tools I'm going to try the heaviest duty 18 volt one. And I could always use it to trim our fir trees into Christmas trees!

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Or hire a spray plane to do it in a single pass. 2-4-D will kill the trees along with berrys either way. Mis-use of pesticides by misinformed and uninformed consumers is why many are no longer available without permit. If you resort to spray,for goodness' sake use Glyphosate aka Roundup. 2-4-D presist's in soil for months and leaches to be picked up by roots.

Why stop there?

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[Tractor Seabee]

Beware, Glyposhsate has been determined to be a dangerous product. Here is one item: View attachment Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells - Scientific American.pdf Crossbow active ingredient is 2-4-D. View attachment Crossbow.pdf

Ron

 

[fried1765]

Beware, Glyposhsate has been determined to be a dangerous product. Here is one item: View attachment 521400 Crossbow active ingredient is 2-4-D. View attachment 521401

Ron

Yup!
Beware of automobiles also! They kill thousands of people each year.
They are a very "dangerous product"
Bathtubs too!

 

[ArlyA]

I do small trees and raspberry trail trimming as a job. Steel grass blades don't work for us because of rocks, and there cutting diameter is to small anyway.. We usually run heads that hold .155 string. These will cut most weeds, tree shoots and those dreaded berries, and the sting is inexpensive and quite easy to change. These heads and this string, are the most important tools (we have a few of these) we use each fall.

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I maintain horse trails in the woods, some of which get overgrown through the summer with raspberry bushes and other plants. I usually walk through, swinging a pruning saw to cut them back.It's hard on the arms and shoulders, so I was wondering how a battery powered hedge trimmer might work. We have a heavy duty gas trimmer that takes a "grass blade", but that's a lot to lug through the woods. We don't have any hedges, so I don't have any experience with hedge trimmers, and I don't know how they would handle this type of work. Has anyone used hedge trimmers in this way?

 

[TomSeller]

Yup!
Beware of automobiles also! They kill thousands of people each year.
They are a very "dangerous product"
Bathtubs too!

And food. People choke and die on food. People concerned should stop eating.

Seriously I only spot spray. Which is worse, noxious weed or a little herbicide? I say noxious weeds are worse.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Beware, Glyposhsate has been determined to be a dangerous product. Here is one item: View attachment 521400 Crossbow active ingredient is 2-4-D. View attachment 521401

Ron

Well, duh. Of course it's dangerous! It's POISON!

The only sensible, non scaremongering question is, does it accumulate in the environment, or break down into something worse, or break down into something harmless?

Hmmmm. Let's see.....

Hundreds of studies over the past 35 years have
addressed the safety of glyphosate.
Roundup has one of the most extensive human health safety and environmental data
packages of any pesticide that's out there, said Monsanto spokesman John Combest.
It's used in public parks, it's used to protect schools. There's been a great deal of
study on Roundup, and we're very proud of its performance.

The EPA considers glyphosate to have low toxicity when used at the recommended
doses.

Risk estimates for glyphosate were well below the level of concern, said EPA
spokesman Dale Kemery. The EPA classifies glyphosate as a Group E chemical, which
means there is strong evidence that it does not cause cancer in humans.

Okay, the EPA, for crying out loud, isn't worried about it.

But wait, there must be a problem if these French researchers are concerned! If somebody says it's a problem, it must be a problem!

Let's read further.

POEA was recognized as a common inert ingredient in herbicides in the 1980s, when
researchers linked it to a group of poisonings in Japan. Doctors there examined
patients who drank Roundup, either intentionally or accidentally, and determined
that their sicknesses and deaths were due to POEA, not glyphosate.
POEA is a surfactant, or detergent, derived from animal fat. It is added to Roundup
and other herbicides to help them penetrate plants' surfaces, making the weed killer
more effective.

Ohhhh nooooooooooooze!

People drank Roundup and got sick and some even dieded! Ohhhh noooooooooooozes!


You can't make this stuff up. :confused2:


Oh, by the way, that bit about it hanging around in the environment? It doesn't.


Some of you won't be happy until we are all wrapped up in nice safe cocoons, sitting on a shelf, kept alive by an umbilical cord.