"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

So I had to kill a tree yesterday. It was a mulberry in my yard that had grown so deep it’s roots found my sewer line and was blocking it. Plumber snake drilled the roots but alas my tree had to go. Grew it ten years. Really liked it. I’m a tree guy and do a lot with bonsai and gardening. Wife just about cried when I got the chainsaw…:(
Used 41% glysophate and a stump killer…gonna burn some bbq coals in a month in the stump spot and plant an olive next. Ho hum so it goes.
At least it wasn’t one of my favorite trees :). My all time favorite I just wired down to look old. It went from this to this in a day…
I just really dig plants. And dogs, and knives.
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So I had to kill a tree yesterday. It was a mulberry in my yard that had grown so deep it’s roots found my sewer line and was blocking it. Plumber snake drilled the roots but alas my tree had to go. Grew it ten years. Really liked it. I’m a tree guy and do a lot with bonsai and gardening. Wife just about cried when I got the chainsaw…:(
Used 41% glysophate and a stump killer…gonna burn some bbq coals in a month in the stump spot and plant an olive next. Ho hum so it goes.
At least it wasn’t one of my favorite trees :). My all time favorite I just wired down to look old. It went from this to this in a day…
I just really dig plants. And dogs, and knives.
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Its glyphosate ... and it is killing the planet, you and family. Here is a Seneff video and please see Dr. Zach Bush. Sorry about your tree !! I love them too !!!!


 
Its glyphosate ... and it is killing the planet, you and family. Here is a Seneff video and please see Dr. Zach Bush. Sorry about your tree !! I love them too !!!!


Yeah I figured I misspelled that one. Sucks. Had to kill it quick. Those roots keep growing underground or I would have used salt.
 
I got some Roundup Precise Gel, so I don't get it on or in the wrong stuff. It doesn't seem to kill what I put it on.
 
I’m not familiar with that product in the gel. Do you apply it to dry vegetation? I did after a fresh trunk cut twice.
It comes in a container like an over-sized deodorant applicator. Turn the knob until beads of goo appear, and rub it on the plant. I've been trying it on green leaves. It seems not to work on wild grapes in the spring. It might work on pokeweed, but it seems not to kill back to the runner, because more pokeweed pops up. Even weeds in the driveway joints seem pretty unimpressed.
Good thing I like to chop stuff.
I got it from Llamaland, by the way. I haven't seen it in a store.
 
It comes in a container like an over-sized deodorant applicator. Turn the knob until beads of goo appear, and rub it on the plant. I've been trying it on green leaves. It seems not to work on wild grapes in the spring. It might work on pokeweed, but it seems not to kill back to the runner, because more pokeweed pops up. Even weeds in the driveway joints seem pretty unimpressed.
Good thing I like to chop stuff.
I got it from Llamaland, by the way. I haven't seen it in a store.
Well that’s a bummer it ain’t workin. Vines are tough. I just dug out four creeping figs and had previously tried to kill them with no luck.
Anyhow don’t mix it up with your deodorant 😂
 
Did a quick Google search and it looks like date of death was 1-13-21. Whoever he was, God bless him. Died at 64 years old.
Hopefully it's not our Randy.
I also hope it is not our Randy. Judging by the name of the wife that survives the Randy who died in January, I don't think it is our Randy.

I hope Randy is doing well. His last post said he was leaving the forum. Hopefully he is just doing other things. He gave me a lovely Boker Trapper a while back, I miss having him around.
 
For weeds in the paving cracks....boil the jug and give em the boiling water treatment....they don't like it nor do their seeds....
I too hope it's not our Randy....let's hope he reconnects soon or at worst is off plunking his guitars somewhere...🤞
 
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