Honey Locust trees excavator, Track loader, Dozer

[terex herder]

Get a saw on a skid steer. Mine will cut 16" deep, have felled 48" cottonwoods. Will cut flush to the ground. If desired you can rotate it 90 degrees and grind out the stump. Has sprayer tank, easy to treat stumps immediately.

 

[DMiller]

Only way to short term defeat them is catch before seed pods evolve, remove and burn. Then the outside the property trees that still make pods will slowly migrate back in.

 

[mowingman]

Shearing them off will not kill them. They will sprout from the roots. Spraying the stumps afterward may help. but they will still come back. Regular mowing, like 3 or 4 times/year, will help keep the new growth at bay, and eventually it should die out. When I say eventually, I mean something like 10 or 15 years.

 

[terex herder]

Cut in the winter with good dose of remedy and diesel fuel and they wont resprout come spring, leastwise around here. But the price of remedy can make for an expensive date.

 

[mowingman]

Cut in the winter with good dose of remedy and diesel fuel and they wont resprout come spring, leastwise around here. But the price of remedy can make for an expensive date.

That did not work for us down in Texas. We also tried another product mixed with diesel, I think it was called "Sahara". That was not effective either. I think if there was a nuclear attack, the first two plants to regrow would be Locust and Mesquite.

 

[CM1995]

I think if there was a nuclear attack, the first two plants to regrow would be Locust and Mesquite.

Add mimosa trees and kudzu. The only way one can kill a mimosa tree is dig up the entire stump. If you dig up Kudzu it's the gift that keeps on giving!

 

[Tinkerer]

I Have had excellent results with Tordon RTU.
Cut a couple slashes in the trunk with a hatchet and apply it with a spray bottle. There are some really good videos on YouTube about it.
Or, drill 4or5 3/4“ holes around the trunk about 6” deep and filled them with Tordon, it will kill it and the roots.

Another herbicide I have used is Imazapyr 4 SL.
After cutting tees flush with the ground I use a spray bottle to apply it to the stump.
It will kill it and the roots.
It doesn’t need much.
Adding diesel fuel is not something I would do to any herbicide. Besides diluting the concentrated product it may alter the chemical formula of it and make it less effective. IMHO of course.

 

[mowingman]

I Have had excellent results with Tordon RTU.
Cut a couple slashes in the trunk with a hatchet and apply it with a spray bottle. There are some really good videos on YouTube about it.
Or, drill 4or5 3/4“ holes around the trunk about 6” deep and filled them with Tordon, it will kill it and the roots.

Another herbicide I have used is Imazapyr 4 SL.
After cutting tees flush with the ground I use a spray bottle to apply it to the stump.
It will kill it and the roots.
It doesn’t need much.
Adding diesel fuel is not something I would do to any herbicide. Besides diluting the concentrated product it may alter the chemical formula of it and make it less effective. IMHO of course.

Good to know that works. I don't think we could have taken the time to do that on our projects. This was areas before we got into the bigger trees. My guess was 75% Mesquite, 10% Honey Locust, and the balance was a little of everything else.

 

[DMiller]

That just need a Full Out Fire, burn it to the ground then hang a ripper to the soil and flip up the root stocks, Next Burn pile!!! Or Paraquat.

 

[Uffda]

I've been spraying cut Locust stumps with diesel fuel + 7% Crossbow. Or you can ring the base of a tree with a chain saw and treat. Seem to get them every time...

 

[mowingman]

That just need a Full Out Fire, burn it to the ground then hang a ripper to the soil and flip up the root stocks, Next Burn pile!!! Or Paraquat.

Everything we did was inside the city limits. No burning allowed, even with a state permit, it would have been impossible to do a burn trench and meet all their requirements.

 

[PBEtrucking]

Been dealing with 58 acres riddled with honey and black locust for years. They have a shallow root system which means they push over easy, but all the roots are connected under ground, that's why they always pop back up next to an old stump. Best bet is to push them out as high up on the tree as possible with an excavator so you rip the stump and root ball out. Felling or mulching leaves the stump and you just have a new forest waiting to happen. On a side note, they make amazing firewood but that probably ain't much use in texas.

 

[Tinkerer]

Good to know that works. I don't think we could have taken the time to do that on our projects. This was areas before we got into the bigger trees. My guess was 75% Mesquite, 10% Honey Locust, and the balance was a little of everything else.

Pictures are worth a thousand words. We can now see what you are dealing with.
Too bad Tordon RTU is $130.00 a gallon.

 

[mowingman]

Pictures are worth a thousand words. We can now see what you are dealing with.
Too bad Tordon RTU is $130.00 a gallon.

These are all projects we did for the same landowner a few years ago. I have retired now. I have other photos that show how bad the Honey LOcust was on some other properties. However, I can not find them right now. I think photo albums were better than computer files.

 

[terex herder]

Adding diesel fuel is not something I would do to any herbicide. Besides diluting the concentrated product it may alter the chemical formula of it and make it less effective. IMHO of course.

The label is the law. Mixing with diesel fuel is on the label. I use remedy because it mixes with diesel fuel, no problems with freezing in the winter.

 

[terex herder]

There are generic alternatives to the branded Tordon RTU at much less cost.

When treating a cut stump of size, there is no need to treat the entire stump. The sapwood around the outside is what needs to be treated. Treating quickly after cutting is also important, most labels say 15 minutes.

 

[Pony]

I have a little experience killing trees with tordon.
The quicker you apply it the better, I'm talking within seconds.
When stem injecting into axe cuts, best is cut with axe, inject. Cut, inject, repeat your way around the tree.
The longer you leave it the less the uptake of the poison by the tree.

Well, in Australia at least.
I can't see any reason trees would react any differently around the world, but ?????

 

[Uffda]

Shear them off and dig out the stumps, or spray the freshly cut stump with Crossbow & diesel fuel mixed to instructions on the label. Works well on <12" diameter trunks.

 

[Uffda]

I've been researching Locust trees and learned that all the University Foresters agree in that you need to treat a cut Locust Stump within an hour of cutting it or it will go into over-drive and shoot our suckers from all the roots! They say the best way is to kill the Tree by girdling, hack & squirt, or drill & fill, then remove the tree after it's dead.