Brambles!

[Mr. Bish]

I have been asked to manage a small holding hardwood woodland.

 

It's plagued by brambles. I suggested putting pigs in, in a managed way. client doesnt want the hasstle.

 

Any suggestions on best way or compound to irradicate the brambles?

 

Thanks:thumbup:

[David Goss]

Plagued? wait till after they have fruited and collect all the brambles you can, then wait till the next year and do the same etc etc:001_tt2:

dont you have big boots and chainsaw trousers? these make walking through them a painless doddle and mr vandal wont be able to get through with his silly joggers on:thumbup1:

Bramble management sorted methinks:001_rolleyes:

[Mr. Bish]

Yup all agreed....

 

customer wants them gone because they are too overweight and doddery to make it through their woodland.

[timberbear]

Flail them a nice path to follow and create a bramble hedge, great for nesting birds etc alternatively spray with Grazon 90 which is selective, but you'll need a PA cert to use and buy it. I use it create dead areas of bramble to allow natural regeneration.

[windfall]

I went at my brambles with a metal bladed strimmer, didnt take long to reclaim the land, now i mow the area every month.

 

I dont think there is any easy way of getting rid of them, specially when the stems are thicker than your thumb!

[APC]

Get a mulching blade on a brushcutter and mash as much of it up as you like.

[Beardie]

Surprising though it may seem, brambles are sometimes easy to uproot in woodland. I once had the task of clearing bramble whilst trying to save the wild raspberry nearby, and was surprised not only at how much of the bramble root was in the leafmould layer, but also at how few bramble rootstocks there were relative to the area covered.

Some of them just pulled out without having to be dug. Finding somewhere to put the phenomenal quantity of unwieldy bramble stems was the hard bit.

[Ian Leach]

Use on of these

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I want to use one of them and I don't even know what it is:lol:

 

Actually, that's exactly what the police should be using against the rioters:laugh1:

[PhilBeech]

Manage it using shade and at the same time create woodland management work for the foreseeable future