wmfamily
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Tordon will kill them pretty reliably. My Mom spent many a day in the pasture cutting and painting them. If you do not apply it immediately after cutting you most likely won't kill it.
What kind of tree is this?
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Tordon will kill them pretty reliably. My Mom spent many a day in the pasture cutting and painting them. If you do not apply it immediately after cutting you most likely won't kill it.
MossRoad
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This is a friend of ours house... the entire north side is osage orange. Huge trees, some well over 2' in diameter and 60+ feet tall. We know, because they fall on his yard every year.
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Here are a couple that have been trimmed up to look decent.
The branches tend to curl down toward the ground, you you have to keep after them... As mentioned, stumps just keep re-sprouting, even after multiple Roundup applications. I think these things would survive a nuclear attack. Note that even the tiniest little sprouts already have thorns on them.
Even if you grind them off, the sprouts come up out of the root system that is left underground.
The branches tend to curl down toward the ground, you you have to keep after them... As mentioned, stumps just keep re-sprouting, even after multiple Roundup applications. I think these things would survive a nuclear attack. Note that even the tiniest little sprouts already have thorns on them.
Even if you grind them off, the sprouts come up out of the root system that is left underground.
NorTracNY
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Am I the only one concerned?
ning
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I've seen enough of his posts; I'm not concerned
Edit/addition: ok that could be taken two ways. Please read that as "he seems competent, he'll be back"!
OKAY, wellness check, no problems Saturday cutting on the devil's spawn tree. Problems started Sunday. Had to be packed out of church in the middle of the service. The nurse practitioner and hospital head nurse who were there both thought I was having a heart attack. I have never had any heart problems and none of my family ever has. They fed me nitro pills and aspirin until the ambulance got there. My wife said people were running out to the parking lot bringing in medical equipment out of their cars. Ambulance got there and took me the twenty-five or so miles to the hospital and by the time I got there my daughter who lives in another county and my sister who lives a 45-minute drive away were there. Wife said fifteen minutes after they carried me out and before they got to the ER a friend at a church on the other side of the county texted her asking how I was. Telephone, telegram, or tell a woman and the whole world knows. Preacher cut sermon short then song leader had to lead extra songs until the ambulance got out of the parking lot. LOL, when I cause a ruckus I cause a good one. By the time they got me to the ER there were prayers being said in five churches for me. And I don't even know any of those people.
They let me go today. Doctor said heart tests showed a perfect heart except for one small common problem that even he had and was not serious. So they think this may have something to do with my ear problems. I don't know. Church was cold, I had sweat running off my face and elbows, shirt was soaked. I couldn't talk. Had nausea, had vertigo, couldn't stand up. Daughter and wife said my face and arms were dark grey. In the ER and before admission to the hospital everything cleared up. After admission I had two smaller episodes that day with problems with my vision. Everything I looked at bounced up and down. Anybody experience anything like that?
Guess I will have to leave the devil's tree alone until I find out what this was.
RSKY
They let me go today. Doctor said heart tests showed a perfect heart except for one small common problem that even he had and was not serious. So they think this may have something to do with my ear problems. I don't know. Church was cold, I had sweat running off my face and elbows, shirt was soaked. I couldn't talk. Had nausea, had vertigo, couldn't stand up. Daughter and wife said my face and arms were dark grey. In the ER and before admission to the hospital everything cleared up. After admission I had two smaller episodes that day with problems with my vision. Everything I looked at bounced up and down. Anybody experience anything like that?
Guess I will have to leave the devil's tree alone until I find out what this was.
RSKY
ning
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I suddenly started having BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) about five or six or eight years ago. If I put my head in a certain position (for me, tilt far back and turn to it to the right like I'm trying to look at the ground right behind my shoulder), the world will start spinning like I just drank half a bottle of port and inhaled way too much of a cigar (specific example because that happened once. once. never again. sorry to the neighbor's bushes). Good thing is with BPPV there's a way you can reset the issue so the vertigo goes away; I still feel a bit queasy for a few hours after. Also good thing is I know how to avoid it so it only occasionally happens, most often when I'm stretching on the floor.
I wouldn't be surprised if you might have the same thing. Read up on "epley maneuver" just in case it happens again so you can reset before you go to the ER again.
I wouldn't be surprised if you might have the same thing. Read up on "epley maneuver" just in case it happens again so you can reset before you go to the ER again.
NorTracNY
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Well, I'm glad the tree didn't get you. Not sure of what condition you may have. Clearly a circulatory issue, but good to know the engine is clean.
