Use Of Urea to Treat Stumps

[Dorset Treeman]

Can you name the well known forestry supplies company? I am struggling to get the urea locally.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Clark's and Stanton Hope used to do them.

[Breezeblock]

would adblue for lorries not work it contains urea

[County 764]

Waste of time, even the FC don't use it on a lot of there sites especially when its coming from the harvesters head you often get a very poor coverage of the stump. But the FC do still say best practice to use it.

If its in the soil already your fighting a loosing battle

[County 764]

A picture of stump treatment via the harvester head. Was part of a report I did into it years ago. Ok not all stumps were this bad but a lot were only slightly treated

[Dorset Treeman]

The Urea turned out to be a real pain to get hold of, maybe it is going out of fashion??

 

I got the urea from a company found online, based in Northern Ireland called Mistral Chemicals (urea | Mistral Lab Supplies). It came in a crystal form and I mixed it at a rate of 2kg of urea to 10 litres of water in a napsack sprayer and coated the stumps with it straight after felling.

[ben_inthewoods]

I insist on urea on the high risk sites as per FC guidance. Poor application can be sorted and a robust standing sales contract and adequate supervision will help.

 

It's root to root contact that is the problem not soil.