Killing a Sycamore

[urbandekay]

Anyone know if it would be possible to kill a Sycamore by drilling holes into the trunk and pouring in SBK or other chemical?

[10 Bears]

No it wouldn't.

 

Why would you want to do this, other then to illegally kill someone else's tree?

[urbandekay]

Well, I wouldn't want to do it but it is a method we use to kill stumps and a customer asked me if it would also work on a tree, which got me to wondering. If it wouldn't work, why not?

[Gary Prentice]

No it wouldn't.

 

Why would you want to do this, other then to illegally kill someone else's tree?

 

Might you want to create standing dead timber within a woodland as part of some grant scheme.

 

or, to kill a species that suckers profusely before felling the tree.

 

And, I'd answer yes, I know of a sycamore that died soon after an adjacent stump was treated with glyphosate. (within a month) although from what I was told application rates were greatly exceeded.

[Stubby]

We had to ring bark some as habitat in a bat wood once .

[mikeh]

Just legally dismantle the bugger or had it got a TPO on it & 'client' trying to be clever - warn em of consequences if so & if no TPO give em quote for takedown.

[urbandekay]

Don't think it has a TPO, think they just can't afford to have it taken down, been waiting 2 months for £60 they owe me

[MATTMOSS]

It will still need to be taken down when it's dead?

[Stubby]

Or is there room to just let it fall ?

[Gary Prentice]

It will still need to be taken down when it's dead?

 

That one on AH Road is still stood:biggrin: