What's your preferred method?
Hinge cutting is going to provide some cover for deer.
Hack and squirt will take time to kill the trees and will eventually open up the canopy to get more sunlight to the ground.
Main target is going to be sweet gums
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Hack & squirt or hinge cut
What's your preferred method?
Hinge cutting is going to provide some cover for deer.
Hack and squirt will take time to kill the trees and will eventually open up the canopy to get more sunlight to the ground.
Main target is going to be sweet gums
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Originally Posted by Highstrung
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Hack and squirt or double girdle.
If you hinge cut, spray the cuts/treat the stumps or else you'll replace one tree with 10 when it root sprouts.
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What Glenn said
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If you're trying to kill trees, hack and squirt is about as efficient as it gets.
If you're trying to provide cover then hinge cutting is good because as mentioned above the trees stay alive.
I've done some of both over the last 5 years.....they are both good practices, but for different end goals.
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It's a sweet gum. Kill the hell out of them.
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I can't remember where, but I'm pretty sure this is in the Bible.
"Freedom Isn't Free"
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1983-2004
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It's in mine because I wrote it in the margin.
It's yet to be canonized but I'm hearing good things.
I'm adding holly trees soon so stand by for that as well.
Last edited by Glenn; 12-13-2022 at 11:17 AM.
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Hallelujah!!!
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Holly leaves under barefoot was the bane of my childhood existence.
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1983-2004
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I was thinking about that yesterday afternoon while walking the dog and looking at the lack of browse left for the deer in the area... and the heavy growth of holly trees that multiply as bad as Sweet Gum. Once I finish a few other projects, and do some welding on the bush hog, there are a lot of holly trees that will meet their demise here.
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two words
deer
beds
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
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At all cost.
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In my quest to make all our pines look like quail plantations I started to notice we were killing more deer and turkeys in the sections where sweet gums did not get eradicated by fire and chopper.
Just an observation
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nobody like gum trees but they make good cover when about 2' to 10' high. Make good dead falls in the lake too.
Last edited by centurian; 12-13-2022 at 04:31 PM.
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Holly trees are good for something - bow stands. Good cover throughout the season. Not much value otherwise though.
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They make a nice scratch box too.
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you scratch your box with them?
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Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
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Yes, it’s glorious.
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Sweet!
At least I'm housebroken.
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Sweetgums do make fine pulpwood.
But damn do they suck…
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