Thorny Locusts... how would you remove?

[jaxs]

No need to spray anytime, if you paint the fresh cut stumps with straight Glyphosate.
There will be no sprouts from that root system!

Instead of running round lifting a back leg on other people's posts,why don't you follow your own advice? Or do you deny saying the below only 3 hours earlier?

My neighbor cuts that stuff for me once each year (Sept.)
He has a magnificent CAT tracked skidsteer with a 10'(?) mower head.
Once each year keeps it looking managed.
Every 3 years would be ugly!

$600 each year, for about 4-1/2 acres.
It is actually his view across my property.

 

[fried1765]

Instead of running round lifting a back leg on other people's posts,why don't you follow your own advice? Or do you deny saying the below only 3 hours earlier?

Wow....nasty has been switched on!

In my world, there is a difference between mowing 2" saplings with a skidsteer,.... and "fresh cut stumps".
I have the sapling stuff mowed yearly, but when necessary, I cut larger growth with a chainsaw.
The sapling growth needs to be mowed yearly, to prevent it from becoming larger growth, with associated stumps.
It would be totally impractical to attempt to yearly paint each of the hundreds of mowed saplings with Glyphosate.
My apologies: I had no idea that anyone would misinterpret my posts, and particularly with a nasty retort.

 

[turnkey4099]

?The locust family, black and honey are "copsing" species, i.e, plant one tree and he roots will put up ssprouts eventually resullting in a grove or 'copse". The wood, Black Locust espeially makes great firewood and as noted, BL makes great 'never rot' posts, beams and thelike.

To kill one tree, cut it down, paint with glyphsophat and the patrol the area for several year with a spray bottle of gly. I cut one in my backyard and patrolled for about 3 years before I had it all. One sprout came up through a crack in the concrete INSIDE my 3 season porch 20 ft away from the stump.

I also planted 10 or 15 a thornless ?shademasster? honey locust. About 15 years later one of them had reverted to type with the long thorns, It died of chainsawitis the same day. I was getting flats on the garden tractor and trailers for 10 years later.