[NAFEX] weed whip / paint

Del Stubbs northernlights2n at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 7 09:23:30 EST 2004


Heron, by "solid bladed jobbies" I presume you mean the 3  or 4 blade cutters, (like a
10" 3 tooth saw blade)?Yes I use those for large tough and overgrown weeds like burdock,
and small aspen, but I use the heavy string for weed / grass maintainance, the solid
blade doesn't do well cleaning to ground level.  Thanks for the imput on the paint /
rodent study.
Has anyone else tried paint on grapes to stop mouse chewing? Del

--- Heron Breen <breen at fedcoseeds.com> wrote:
> Del, have you tried one of the solid bladed jobbies? They seem awful effective at 
> taking out large stuff. Does your Stihl allow interchange with a solid blade?
> and was told about a observation made 
> about rabbit and possibly smaller rodent winter protection. Seems they had tried 
> painting with white latex ONLY as the rodent/rabbit protection in a recent winter. 
> As a trial, I hope I am getting this right, some trees were left unpainted, next to 
> an relatively equal number of painted trees. All of the unpainted were eaten, none 
> of the painted. I guess their main problem was rabbits, which I do not have a 
> problem with, but any easier solution to girdling I haven't heard. What methods do 
> the rest of you use? What have you tried that has failed?
> Heron Breen
> Maine zone 4      
> 

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Del Stubbs  http://www.pinewoodforge.com   zone 3   N. MN


		
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