Re: Hand Tools and Machinery for Country Living
Originally Posted by
Too Tall
I hate multiflora rose. There is no way to win without using something nasty when upwind. Goats would do a job but where the heck does one rent a band of ravenous goats in rural VA?????
I’m on year three of an aggressive pull campaign and I don’t want to get cocky but it was pretty quick work to dispatch this year’s shoots. It is nice that they start early and are easy to identify, what with the red on the stem. And the young uns don’t bite too hard.
The mature fuckers are a bear, the thorns penetrate denim like it’s Lycra and even leather gloves are only somewhat effective. But once I got close enough to the queens and kings to yank them out with my Pullerbear (it’s Canadian!) which replaced my Weed Wrench, that deprived them of their ill-gotten generational wealth and slowed their advance considerably.
Trod Harland, Pickle Expediter
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin
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