Bamboo removal

[dumper]

21 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Don't think it was delivered by bombers, grunts used to get covered in the stuff. It was nasty stuff, a poorly refined formulation of 245t, which kills broadleaves, not grasses.

Development work was carried out at Monsanto in Newport south wales

they made some very nasty chemicals agent orange was one of the nicer ones 

the rest they dumped on top of a couple of Welsh mountains

[openspaceman]

7 minutes ago, dumper said:

Development work was carried out at Monsanto in Newport south wales

they made some very nasty chemicals agent orange was one of the nicer ones 

the rest they dumped on top of a couple of Welsh mountains

I had never heard of monsanto before roundup in the mid 70s but prior to that  lost my first job for querying the use of 245t and 24d for spraying hazel stumps. I was already aware of problems associated with agent orange, the dioxin impurities the bulk processing introduced was implicated in birth defects of both the progeny of the vietnamese and american servicemen exposed to it. I was exposed to some of it in diesel from the wander leads we used away from the spray pumps. I think what we used was a purer form but I had finished having kids by then so...

[spudulike]

I think we may be digressing....what about dynamite....may as well share it with the neighbours 👍

[dumper]

Spud dynamite is very old school people now use c4 much better bang!

[oldwoodcutter]

Unless you are really desperate for work,  or the client will accept an unusually high quotation,  I’d steer clear of anything to do with bamboo.

[Mesterh]

Sounds like its nearly as bad as Japanese knotweed!