trail clearing technique and tools

[ArlyA]

Bump Head

If you are cutting tough weeds or tree shoots, I'd suggest going to larger, cam lock head and run 155. That's what we run here.

 

[ArlyA]

Clearing trail at camp over the weekend. Does cooler string work better? Did run the same strings for the whole day. No idea why.

 

[Milo]

Arly is that stilt grass you're cutting?

 

[ArlyA]

Arly is that stilt grass you're cutting?

I don't believe he have that up here.

 

[Milo]

Count your blessings!

 

[ArlyA]

Count your blessings!

What have you used to knock it down?

 

[kenmbz]

I used Milestone on my stiltgrass, works great on the grass in open areas.

Unfortunately the stiltgrass comes up through everything, including junipers, so we can't kill it all.
The deer etc. won't touch it.
When it gets to 2-3foot maturity, it seeds and then falls over so it suffocates anything else in the spring.
Nasty stuff, in rose bushes, veggy garden, woods, pretty much everywhere you look.
Deer will walk through and spread seeds etc.
I spend more time on SG eradication than anything else, trying to find tree trunks, branches and rocks to clear an area is tough with that stuff covering it.

 

[Milo]

What have you used to knock it down?

Pretty much as Ken described.

Not so bad where it can be mowed and mowing short in fall greatly reduces it seeding much, and it dies annually, but just one plant can make 100's of seeds. And you can't mow where it grows around rocks, through briars, and takes off through the forest. No way a nut can grow to a sapling through the stuff so the forest can't regenerate.