[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Help me destroy something... (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 1/23/2016 10:53:19 PM EDT
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This stuff. Cane...bamboo.... got a THICK patch of it...measures 110' x 140'... Now before all the "nuke it from orbit" crew chime in, let me tell you what won't work...
BULLDOZER- because of the location and proximity to flower beds, wife-ee has ruled out the destruction that a dozer would cause. BUSH HOG- tried it...so thick it's actually hard to push through with my tractor, and so tall that if you do manage to run it over, it just lays flat underneath the cutter.... and the few that do get whacked leave sharp stubs that are a serious danger for tires. CHAINSAW- yep, tried it. Those of you who have used chainsaws know that cutting multiple clusters of brush horizontally will throw the chain after a short time. Even running it really tight won't change this...chewed up 2 bars that way.... 
This is a BIG area.....weed killer won't touch it.... what are my real options....the only one I can think of is a bobcat with a rotary forestry cutter, unfortunately, no one rents them within 100 miles of me that I've found so far... Ideas???? 
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| Consult a landscaper. Be prepared for sticker shock. That stuff is nearly impossible to get rid of. Be warned: if you left a lot of slivers on the ground it will multiply faster. Just putting a short length in the ground will spread it like wildfire. The poster above had a good suggestion with the salt idea. Oh your wife's flower beds? They will be overrun by the bamboo because it loves topsoil and mulch. Even our shitty winters in Ohio won't kill the stuff. |
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Cut them down, and then paint each stump with a small brush using Roundup concentrate. 
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Spray with concentrated 2-4-D, salt, water with used motor oil and then set it on fire. Once that's done rent a back hoe, dig up entire area and put new dirt in. Yeah, good luck with bamboo This honestly isn't far from the truth. Shit is like a spore/hydra hybrid. Cut one down, 9 return to replace it. Figures it came from China. |
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Quoted: Does this actually work? I have similar stuff in my back yard that i may try this also. Sounds awesome! Quoted: Quoted: Go to your local hardware store. Buy 500# of rock salt. Salt the fuck out of the patch. It'll die. Guaranteed.  Does this actually work? I have similar stuff in my back yard that i may try this also. Sounds awesome! |
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Does this actually work? I have similar stuff in my back yard that i may try this also. Sounds awesome! Quoted:
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Go to your local hardware store. Buy 500# of rock salt. Salt the fuck out of the patch. It'll die. Guaranteed. Does this actually work? I have similar stuff in my back yard that i may try this also. Sounds awesome! Yeah, it will work. Nothing else will grow there either it works so well. |
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http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/pests/weeds/hgic2320.html
Here's a link to removing. It will be a long process and over a few years of treatment. Your best bet is going to probably cut stump and application of herbicide. You can cut the stumps and then paint the cut area with a glyphosate (Roundup) product. But buy the full strength concentrate from a farm coop or store like that. Not the watered down homeowner stuff. Someone mentioned 2,4-D earlier and that won't work. With any invasive you will have to continue to treat for a few year and monitor. The rhizomes will be very hard to kill and you may have to cut the stems and herbicide a few times. And disturbance to the soil like bulldozing or anything and you will stimulate the growth of the plants. What people don't understand is that many plants respond with extra growth to cutting. I would make sure you do this during the growing season. |
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The correct way to cut bamboo is with a long(not typical American length) machete. Of course it will grow back. Lol. I tried that once. Machete barely nicked it. Stuff is evil The only thing I like about it is a ton of European starlings roost in ours and I enjoy slaughtering them |
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This will absolutely work. The AZ desert version of that bullshit is called desert broom and it's fucking evil and grows like mad. This is the only way to kill it! Have to brush it on right after cutting each one. I use a Sawzall though
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Cut them down, and then paint each stump with a small brush using Roundup concentrate.
I'd go this route- once growing season starts, set aside 30 minutes a day to chop and paint stumps with roundup or 2-4D. |
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Either dig it up with a dozer or take some of the half measures here with help from an army of ARFcommers dipping spoonfuls of weed killer onto a third of an acre of stumps. The longer it lives, the larger the patch. Actually if the area around the patch is clear for at least 20 or 30 feet you can keep it at bay by mowing the shoots when they pop up. Our patch doesn't spread because our grass grows right up to it so we mow it anyway. Those little sprouts shoot up everywhere though. Sometimes 20 feet or so away from the patch |
| What size bar are you using? When we take out bamboo I actually use a small saw like an MS250 with a 14" or 16" bar. Once you get to 18" you are much more likely to throw a chain. Normally I will wrap a rope around it with a running bowline and get it tight, then cut a bit, then get it tight again, and so on. Doing that will make it a lot easier to get it to wherever you plan on burning it. I normally only do tree work, but I've gotten a lot of calls to clear bamboo because nobody else wants to do it. I charge a shit load for it because it is a giant pain in the ass, even with a thrasher mounted on a bobcat. Good luck. |
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When the grid goes down you'll wish you had that patch. You could lean back in your bamboo chair, eating bamboo shoots from your bamboo plates and cutlery, sipping from your bamboo cup...all will listening to the zombies cry out from your bamboo booby-traps. Of course you can climb your bamboo scaffolding and guard tower and rain down blow darts from your bamboo blowgun or get up close to them and finish them off with a stiff bamboo caning. After it is all over you can retire to your bamboo house and play your bamboo recorder and take puffs from your bamboo pipe. Or rip it out. Your call. |
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I had a bookkeepr that seemed to be a rather straight-laced, calm, and professional person.
One day she arrived at my office in a really awful mood. This was the first time that I had heard her use any sort of curse word. Very professional woman prior to this day. Apparently, her neighbor's bamboo trees were starting to pop up underneath her backyard putting green. I blushed at the language she was using describing her neighbor, her husband, and her gardener. CSB I recommended fire. She glared at me. 
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Quoted: Actually if the area around the patch is clear for at least 20 or 30 feet you can keep it at bay by mowing the shoots when they pop up. Our patch doesn't spread because our grass grows right up to it so we mow it anyway. Those little sprouts shoot up everywhere though. Sometimes 20 feet or so away from the patch Quoted: Quoted: Either dig it up with a dozer or take some of the half measures here with help from an army of ARFcommers dipping spoonfuls of weed killer onto a third of an acre of stumps. The longer it lives, the larger the patch. Actually if the area around the patch is clear for at least 20 or 30 feet you can keep it at bay by mowing the shoots when they pop up. Our patch doesn't spread because our grass grows right up to it so we mow it anyway. Those little sprouts shoot up everywhere though. Sometimes 20 feet or so away from the patch |