bassboy1
Lieutenant Commander
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- Jun 23, 2006
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Complete with Tarzan vines?
Holy crap. Those things are downright deadly. Mom has been wanting some raised bed gardens in the backyard. So, dad and I were trying to clean out brush and fallen trees from the woods. Other than that it is a clearing. We also decided that a couple trees need to go to get better light. The trees are encrusted in vines - some of which are SIX inches in diameter. To make matters worse, the tree is leaning toward neighbors property. So we pull out the trusty rope bag and use a winch to yank the tree toward us. Cut it, and the tree is still standing. Tied to other trees with VINES. Reattache winch to bottom of tree and try to pull it out from underneath. Nope. Wont move. Cut the trunk off on 6 foot sections from the bottom up. Attached the rope from the tangled mess of the top of the tree to the truck and pulled. 1 1/4 inch rope snapped after stalling the truck twice. Two and a half hours to get one tree down. Turns out the vines had killed the tree. Had killed other trees as well but they weren't so entangled so they didn't fight. Still have about 3 dead trees we cannot remove w/o a bucket truck, which we don't have sitting in the workshop. The vines run in a grid under the leaves. Each one about a quarter inch in diameter and about six inches apart. Grab onto any foot or wheelbarrow or anything else that goes past it. To green to cut, and to strong to break.
We have a chipper/shredder that we have been running some of the vines and brush through. Have about 12 wheelbarrow loads of mulch and took one fully loaded pickup to the dump, and still can't tell we even started. The VINES have latched onto every thing. And there was a lot of deadfall back there, and the previous owners of the house dumped every bit of yard waste they had back there. And the vines took over all of it. What was supposed to be a half days work building some raised beds have turned into 2 long days of VINES. Haven't even touched the stack of crossties yet.
I HATE VINES!!!!!!!!
Holy crap. Those things are downright deadly. Mom has been wanting some raised bed gardens in the backyard. So, dad and I were trying to clean out brush and fallen trees from the woods. Other than that it is a clearing. We also decided that a couple trees need to go to get better light. The trees are encrusted in vines - some of which are SIX inches in diameter. To make matters worse, the tree is leaning toward neighbors property. So we pull out the trusty rope bag and use a winch to yank the tree toward us. Cut it, and the tree is still standing. Tied to other trees with VINES. Reattache winch to bottom of tree and try to pull it out from underneath. Nope. Wont move. Cut the trunk off on 6 foot sections from the bottom up. Attached the rope from the tangled mess of the top of the tree to the truck and pulled. 1 1/4 inch rope snapped after stalling the truck twice. Two and a half hours to get one tree down. Turns out the vines had killed the tree. Had killed other trees as well but they weren't so entangled so they didn't fight. Still have about 3 dead trees we cannot remove w/o a bucket truck, which we don't have sitting in the workshop. The vines run in a grid under the leaves. Each one about a quarter inch in diameter and about six inches apart. Grab onto any foot or wheelbarrow or anything else that goes past it. To green to cut, and to strong to break.
We have a chipper/shredder that we have been running some of the vines and brush through. Have about 12 wheelbarrow loads of mulch and took one fully loaded pickup to the dump, and still can't tell we even started. The VINES have latched onto every thing. And there was a lot of deadfall back there, and the previous owners of the house dumped every bit of yard waste they had back there. And the vines took over all of it. What was supposed to be a half days work building some raised beds have turned into 2 long days of VINES. Haven't even touched the stack of crossties yet.
I HATE VINES!!!!!!!!
