Thread: Tree removal advice? not L.R.

There used to be available an agricultural chemical called "Grasslan". It turned scrub and forest into pasture. It was pelletised and was scattered amongst the trees and scrub and rainfall leached it into the ground and the trees slowly died. Don't know if you can still get this. 5T40 was good also. You mixed it with kerosene or distillate and sprayed on the bottom metre to metre and a half of trees and woody weeds. Can't buy 5T40 anymore. It was part of the Agent Orange cocktail.

Mate, good luck, but BMCC have always been like that for as long as I can remember. Seems some things don't change......

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

There used to be available an agricultural chemical called "Grasslan". It turned scrub and forest into pasture. <snip>

It's Graslan, by Dow Chemical and yes, it is still widely used.

I'm just flicking through my Woody Weed control guide right now....

<edit> and according to my book isn't effective on tall timber. It's mainly used to control re-growth, generally by aerial application.

We have a road widening and upgrade to sealed road.
There are 100 trees in the first 5km to go,mostly in the first km.We have to put a submission into DEC(the old CALM) for permission to remove trees that are within the road reserve.
Lots of old jarrahs including alot of dead ones(FIREWOOD)
They either grant or deny removal,10 trees to 1 removed have to be replanted in the same catchement usually!!!!
To remove trees,20 tonne excavator.Rip around the base with the ripper to break the stabalising surface roots,then reach up and push it the way it wants to go.Quite spectacular to watch,dont know that I would like to be in the excavator!!!!
Andrew

I have been waiting 5 years for the council to inspect the dead tree out the front of our place. It is so dead it has fallen into annother one. I gave up waiting and pulled 2 of the smaller ones over that had died and about to fall on the drive.
All but one of them has that yellow fungle growth on them. Might have to get the fire cheif up this summer to order their removal.

i thnk what makes me laugh about the whole asthetics thing is......

when the contracting van is out on the street for the powerlines say good by to the lovely trees you had growing there making the street look pretty......

they absurlutly destroy them and turn them into the ugliest things alive....they really do an appauling job they hack of any branch near the line, and dont make any effort to balance the tree up

so when you drive down the road looks like all the trees have had a tornado go through them, and rip all the branches off the back of the tree but leave everything hanging into the road.

they might as well cut them all down

still i suppose at least they all look hacked together!!! keeps the look of the street i suppose

Originally Posted by Xavie

So the trees in question are the radiata pine which I am allowed to remove because council says no matter where they are you can take them out. But the guy said is he had a choice he would not let me, the radiata is the tallest tree in the pic. Then the other tree is the one right next to it and slightly shorter on the left hand side if looking at the photo.

The radiata is probaly over 30 meters so the other tree ain't short either. The thing is it's a narrow block and so that golden cypress (which I'll get the proper name for) just spans the whole front of the block.

Radiata, that's what I meant to say.

My shed up in Mount Vic has three of them on the north boundary blocking all of the light, making it the coldest place in Mount Vic.

Sounds like the foundation thing will make a good excuse to chop 'em down.
I've got a worse tale of tree woe.

I own a bunch of trees South of Mudgee, my parents bought it about forty years ago and pretty much forgot about it. I took it over a few years back and put in a request to Lands to clear a firebreak around the fenceline - hasn't been done in forty years.

Two and a half years later and they still won't say yes or no. I call them once a year at the beginning of winter to remind them. I figure, if there's a fire and it starts on my patch I can show the letter and send the bills to Dept of Lands.

Of course it is a bit more than a couple of trees, a couple of hundred acres of fenceline adds up to a fair number of trees.

Cheers
Simon

use the TORDON axe.