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GeneMO

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Kinda tractor related, I might spray these stumps with my M Farmall. What is a good concotion to spray on stumps to keep them from re sprouting? Diesel fuel and Brush killer?
I have some Crossbow. I had thought about the Tordon Ready to use, but that stuff is high in the little squeeze bottles, and I have hundreds of stumps to spray. The power company cleared out the lane going to the back side of my farm. They do this every 5 or 6 years, and the trees grow back up and threaten to close the lane. I want to spray the whole works and keep it open.

Thanks, Gene
 
A whole lot depends on the type of tree they are. If you contact your local Conservation office they have people that will answer your question and may even come out and look so as to help you with that.
 
I use both, Tordon for the big stumps and if there is brush, then I spray with Crossbow. The problem with crossbow, you have to soak the foilage and it takes time to apply.
Best to kill it before it sprouts with the Tordon RTU
 
I use round up with the purple cap, mixed 50/50 with diesel fuel. You can mix with straight anti-freeze also. It is expensive as you already know. There is another chemical sold in farm stores that does the same job but is not as expensive. Can't remember the name
 
You must treat most stumps immediately after cutting if you want to reliably prevent regrowth.

Tordon works well but you must follow the directions, which specify treating immediately after cutting.

I no longer treat stumps except in special circumstances. Rather, I cut flush with the ground and simply mow regularly. Within a few years even the black locusts will die.

Dean
 
If you are going to paint the stumps with tordon or straight roundup you need to do it when they are fresh so it soaks back to the roots. May already be too late. Has to be in the first couple of days. I would think you could get them with some crossbow in late spring when they start growing.
 
Twenty five years ago when they cut the trees off of the drainage ditch going through my farm they poured a blue-green colored chrystaline textured stuff on the stumps. It did work. They treated some big old cottonwood stumps and there was no re-growth. I don't know if it's available today. It had a kind of a 2-4D type of a smell. They were mixing this stuff on-site but I didn't watch them to see what kind of chemical they were using. Jim
 
Gene, Here in Texas, Mesquite is the hardest to kill! Dsl & Remedy;;; mixed at a 4 to 1 or 5 to 1 tank mixture; poured into a pump-up sprayer. A 1 inch band sprayed on Smooth Bark trees, about 10in above the ground Or make a slash into the Cambium layer with a Machete and shot of the mixture into the slash for Ruff bark trees of the same kind.
Do any poisoning in early spring after green up and the plant is growing actively. or Just prior to frost by just a few scant days so the poison will trans locate to the root and stay for the winter and KIll it!

For Stump treatment That should be done at time of cutting or no more than 1 or 2 days later.
IMO it is Darn hard to beat Dsl alone for just stump treatment. The Big Boys say that Dsl alone will do somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% of what Dsl and Chemical will Do!
Is it the petroleum or is it the Chemical or is it the both of them in Tandem!!!
Anyway hope this helps
Later,
John A,
 
I may have waited too long already. They cut these in late summer or early fall. I am thinking late September.

I may have to wait till they sprout, then just spray the brush.

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I have about a half mile lane that they cut along one side, so there are quite a few stumps. Black oak, Hackberry, Elm, some Hedge, maybe a few small Walnuts, Hickory, and Ash I am guessing that about covers them.

Thanks again, Gene
 
About 22 years ago when I started clearing my place I went to a commercial applicator and bought a 3-gallon jug of a liquid called Pathway.
I put the stuff in a mustard bottle and each time a cut a tree, big or small, I poured a thin line of Pathway all the way around the cambium ring. Worked every time. With the mustard bottle you don't have to use much; I still have about a fourth of a jug left. Don't know if they still have this product, or what it may be called. It was a thin, blue-green liquid.
 
We put a large bit in the cordless drill, drill several holes in the stump and squirt Remedy full strength in the holes. I put some Remedy in an old liquid dish soap bottle just for this. Works 100%.

Might not be practical if you have a lot of stumps to treat.
 
cheapest way would be roundup, 20.5% A.I., applied to fresh cut stump. I use a paint brush, or a sprayer. make sure the cuts are fresh!
 

I bought this place in 2007, together the fence rows and woods was overtaking the farm. Every winter I cut a few dozen more trees out. I have found that "Gordon's All Season Brush No More" is effective for treating the stumps. The worst tree I have for regrowth is Mullberry and the stuff stops it. A quart bottle is/was around $15 and you mix 20 oz with one gallon of kerosene or diesel for stumps. I carry a spray bottle along with the chainsaw and apply after I cut the down the tree.
 
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