Woodland Ivy Removal

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Picture a 3 acre ish woodland with some really nice timber including a stately Cedar of Lebanon on the Boundary, big oaks, beech etc. Now imagine them under a mega attack from Ivy which almost covers the entire woodland floor and is now on its relentless scramble upwards into some of this fine timber.

 

Please no arguements on how bad Ivy is or isn't and all that, in the above context and by customer request, it has to go or at least be aggressively managed. I'm familiar with cutting off the thick stuff at the base of a tree so that all growth above dies and eventually falls out but what about large scale control of that which is on the floor?

 

Anyone had any success stories here?

[Tom D]

Cut round all the stems as you say, then fence the area off and introduce a few sheep, they'll eat the lot. Wether this does them any good I can't say but they will eat it.

 

Just looking on the net, it is poinenous to cattle when eaten in bulk, so probably not good for sheep either, shame cos they love it.

Edited February 21, 2009 by Tom D
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[nepia]

...so use goats. Eat anything, bulletproof.

[Bundle 2]

"then fence the area off "...cos..."goats. Eat anything, bulletproof. " !

[Stephen Blair]

Cut round all the stems as you say, then fence the area off and introduce a few sheep, they'll eat the lot. Wether this does them any good I can't say but they will eat it.

 

Just looking on the net, it is poinenous to cattle when eaten in bulk, so probably not good for sheep either, shame cos they love it.

 

a dead elm landed in the field next to my yard, covered in ivy, the sheep stripped it bare in about an hour, they are all fine.

maybe replant with rosemary, then eat the sheep. yum yum

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

a dead elm landed in the field next to my yard, covered in ivy, the sheep stripped it bare in about an hour, they are all fine.

maybe replant with rosemary, then eat the sheep. yum yum

 

Or mint!!!

[Stephen Blair]

Or mint!!!

 

i cant go near mint, makes me fill ill. spent a whole day as a kid pulling it out, mint overload:scared1:

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

i cant go near mint, makes me fill ill. spent a whole day as a kid pulling it out, mint overload:scared1:

 

Natural fly deterent apparently... I live just up the road from the Wrigleys chewing gum factory - you can imagine when the wind is in the right direction what I'm smelling! A lot of people like it but IMO it smells too sickly sweet and sugary from all the other crap they put in it.

Edited February 22, 2009 by TimberCutterDartmoor
speeling mistoke

[heartwood]

I have a small plot of woodland and most of the trees had ivy on them.

Cut about a foot out of the ivy and left to die ,seems to have worked.

When I go for a walk through the trees I pull off any smaller stuff when I see it regrowing up from the ground.

[David Humphries]

Nothing helpful really, but I have two issues to deal with regarding Ivy .

Light and aesthetics and hindering roadside Tree surveys.

 

With the light issue and some survey Trees, we climb and remove as in the Sycamore and Plane below.

 

 

With roadside Survey Trees we sever up to 2m.

 

 

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