Weed control

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Originally Posted by uninformed

I would make up a mix of sand, aggregate, cement and water.....add some deformed round steel bar...that should stop the weeds for 30 years or so...

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No second prizes:p

I know you are not to concerned about surronding trees etc. A mate of mine has some property, he wanted to knock off some exotic weed. He applied posion with a sprayer on a trailer. He kept it away from 3x the canopy area of some nice big river type gums....the trees are now dying. These are big old healthy trees....:(

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Originally Posted by bussy1963

Can you get hold of the stuff they use on railway lines. I use to be a ganger with Vic rail years ago. cant remember the name of the poison but it killed everything for about 5 years. It was nasty stuff as i remember.

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How long ago? they are forever banning such lovely chemicals:(

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Originally Posted by uninformed

I know you are not to concerned about surronding trees etc. A mate of mine has some property, he wanted to knock off some exotic weed. He applied posion with a sprayer on a trailer. He kept it away from 3x the canopy area of some nice big river type gums....the trees are now dying. These are big old healthy trees....:(

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There is two tree's on the property, a gum and a blackwood, I'll be cutting them both down, lots of shrubs, no leave dropping ****** of things:mad:

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Originally Posted by rovercare

There is two tree's on the property, a gum and a blackwood, I'll be cutting them both down, lots of shrubs, no leave dropping ****** of things:mad:

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can you grow grass? or do you just want dirt?

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Originally Posted by uninformed

can you grow grass? or do you just want dirt?

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Driveway, garden beds, big banks which will, in time, become retaining walls, with either lawn or driveway, keep in mind, its a little bigger than a normal house block, its probably an acre

The other few acres being paddock

ok, it all comes down to time and money which is the same thing. If it were me, I would find the cheapest grass or such for now, seed it and let it cover. Yes it will need to be slashed, mowed. But dirt is dust in dry, mud in wet and has no erosion control.....

I am going back about 8 years ago

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Originally Posted by uninformed

ok, it all comes down to time and money which is the same thing. If it were me, I would find the cheapest grass or such for now, seed it and let it cover. Yes it will need to be slashed, mowed. But dirt is dust in dry, mud in wet and has no erosion control.....

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Grass driveway? Grass garden beds? Grass clay bank? If it was flat as I'd just have lawn and ornamental trees, but alas it's not

Money is no issue, that's why time is:D

I mow a fair bit, but it's the bits I'd have to wiper snipper that are an issue and I don't like a grass drive.

Anyhow, anyone got any poisons from 30 years ago laying about?:angel:

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Anyhow, anyone got any poisons from 30 years ago laying about?:angel:

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That's about the only way you will do it.
You're not allowed to have poisons that actually, err.... poison things, any more.
The good ol' days of 2-4 D and 2-4-5 T etc. are long gone.

Now if you're into conspiracy theorys.........................
Trouble was these poisons were simple, cheap and effective. Once you'd done the job there was no repeat business. So the manafacturers got together with the greenys to ban the use of them. This meant the poison manafacturers had to develop more complicated (expensive) poisons that didn't do the job as well. Of course this extra cost is passed on to the consumer. And what a shame for the manafacturers, the user has to keep coming back for more.............................
I'm sure the poison manafacturers sympathise with you.:D

Deano:)