Quite honestly can't say I've seen anyone "climb" a pole without a ladder or a bucket truck in ages.
But I hear ya.
Quite honestly can't say I've seen anyone "climb" a pole without a ladder or a bucket truck in ages.
But I hear ya.
Ah for the days when men were men and women were glad of it.
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Buck thorn and wild parsnip are the two that keep me mowing, cutting, pruning and trimming and using agent orangey stuff...straight on the stump.
Article in our Wisconsin Conservation magazine....How to get rid of this stuff, and it was a call for volunteers to help clean out wild life areas....using the same methods as I use.
So I called the number, and they asked if I wanted to volunteer, told them ..."No, how's about y'all come over here and give ME a hand"....she hung up.
Oh yeah, all my elms died here,starting about 5 years ago....most all dead and gone,now.
About 200 trees, all about the same size......called the country extension office, and they told me that they do this every 25 years or so....and I could have them come out for $150 bucks to check?????
PITA
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Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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That was rich. A good chuckle, thank you. I could actually hear that phone conversation in my head.
We have few elms left down here. My neighbor has a couple of 20 year old trees but you sure don't find any large ones. Dutch Elm got most of them. I understand there are some disease resistant cultivars now available but the darn things grow so slow it would be my grand kids that would shade under them.
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Then there is the Asian beetles, kinda like big lady bugs....imported to eat aphids, now they swarm by the scoop shovel fulls...... And they stink!
I spray when I leave the cabin, as I don't want the dogs to get into it.....go back and see a pile an inch thick all around the perimeter of the walls.
Lots of stuff that was never here before, and now becomes 'Normal"?
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Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
We're doing the same thing to other countries. Stuff we export has our residents on board and winds up in some other country. The problem, of course, is native plants have competed with native bugs for thousands of years and the plants have developed a genetic tolerance. These introduced species wipe out a given plant in a few years or decades. Long before it can develop any resistance to it. Sort of like us bringing small pox to the new world.
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Well out here large mouth bass was introduced by some dumd assed bubbas. They eat all the salmon fry and other small fish. Them our stupid fish and game decides that it is such a popular game fish that they start stocking it in our waters and wonder why the salmon runs are so small. To add to this a couple of years back, water from the delta was cut off from irrigating the central valley because it was claimed that some tiny fish was endangered because it was being sucked into the pumps and killed. In reality the fish was endangered because the damm bass were eating it.
I know what hunts you.
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