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
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
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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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.
It's a sweet gum. Kill the hell out of them.
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Last edited by Glenn; 12-13-2022 at 11:17 AM.
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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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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
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.
They make a nice scratch box too.
you scratch your box with them?
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