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19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Hitoru » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:04 am

Killing Chinese Tallow (Triadica sebifera ) in Texas wetlands.

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Every tree in this photo must die.
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I just kinda liked this photo.
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Woodsman » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:20 pm

Cool. So what do you do with the trees after you whack 'em?

Also - How are your men killing them - are they cutting them and spraying the stems with some herbicide?

Ever find any giant snappers in there?

What about alligators? (I have no idea where these wetlands are or how big they are)

Also, how deep are these places - are they all solid underneath or are there some of those places with muck on the bottom that seemingly have no end?
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby projectalice » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:47 pm

Cool pics and cool job.
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Woodsman » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:38 pm

Also - Why not take lightweight chainsaws for cutting them down - is it more cost efficient to use machetes than say a smaller chainsaw to do the work? They must be fairly easy to slice through?
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby flipflop » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:42 pm

Sweet

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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Hitoru » Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:11 pm

Woodsman wrote:Cool. So what do you do with the trees after you whack 'em?
We let them rot in place

Also - How are your men killing them - are they cutting them and spraying the stems with some herbicide?
We make about one inch cut per inch caliper and squirt a few mils of herbicide in the "frill", ie hack and squirt.

Ever find any giant snappers in there?
Not giant ones

What about alligators? (I have no idea where these wetlands are or how big they are)
Rarely, they stick to the deeper water.

Also, how deep are these places - are they all solid underneath or are there some of those places with muck on the bottom that seemingly have no end?

Soft mucky bottoms,with hidden holes you fall up to your waist in, and then face plant !
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Woodsman » Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:23 pm

19 D 20 wrote:Soft mucky bottoms,with hidden holes you fall up to your waist in, and then face plant !


I can relate to that. :-)
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Hitoru » Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:18 pm

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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Stiv » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:31 am

Chopping tiny water weeds with machetes?

Doesn't that just make them smaller?

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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Hitoru » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:01 pm

Stiv wrote:Chopping tiny water weeds with machetes?

Doesn't that just make them smaller?

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It just increases their numbers.

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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby marie-angelique » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:02 pm

cool! thanks for the pix and for 'splainin' :)
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Hitoru » Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:06 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholes_In ... _Galveston

May 2009

We are attempting to control Brazilian Pepper Trees at the end of one of the runways.There was a bit of hurricane debris. Like many other species in the family Anacardiaceae, Brazilian pepper has aromatic sap that can cause skin reactions (similar to poison-ivy burns) in some sensitive people. The airport's escort guys who make around $20.00 hr said they wouldn't enter the thicket where we were working, on foot for 40.00 hr. It was only around 1acre and they have my utmost respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus_terebinthifolius

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Last years results to the left and Moody Gardens golf course in the back ground.

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My mentee sticking with it. Last years herbicide application nor Ike's salt water inundation hasn't killed this pepper tree. The Galveston Causeway is in the far back ground.

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And of course, you all know it's for the birds. In this shot we have a fledgling yellow Crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax violaceus .

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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Woodsman » Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:33 pm

I really like this thread! Seriously - thanks 19D20.
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby ktrout » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:30 pm

Woodsman wrote:I really like this thread! Seriously - thanks 19D20.


I guess you could say it gave you wood?
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Re: 19 D 20's Work Related Pics

Postby Hitoru » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:47 pm

June 4 2009 East End Park, Kingwood Tx. Restoring grasslands by girdling Loblolly Pines Pinus taeda

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Grey Tree Frog photographed on the boardwalk next to Lake Houston, Kingwood Tx.
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Another day at the office, controlling Salt Cedar (Tamerisk) Tamarix aphylla. http://forestry.about.com/od/forestinva ... marisk.htm

The view from my tractor June 8 2009, Nassau Bay Tx.
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View from the roof of my tractor with Chris spraying herbicide. June 8 2009 Nassau Bay.
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The browned out trees in the background are where me and my guys crawled around on our hands and knees with backpack sprayers applying herbicide to the trunks of the trees where it was to wet to drive the tractor. It really sucks.
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