Clearing rhododendron

[jjll]

Is there a best time to clear rhody in a small 5acre woodland?

I've had a look in the FC website and it mentions about chemical application of the stumps after clearing and the optimal time. Is this the only time factor to consider?

I'd imagine all clearings will be burnt on site.

 

Cheers

[njmusk]

this is the only time of the year I get to clear them, and get them into some sort of order, got acres of them, all been left to grow wild over the past 30 years. Itry and pull the stumps out, and burn everything.

[roys]

Got acres of them to do myself, plan to get a few friends together and have a rhoddy bash and burn next month.

[se7enthdevil]

us turners would be interested in the larger lumps 4"+.

 

it's a really nice timber.

[roys]

I have a Kukri which has a rhoddy handle, it will be getting well used to help cut its cousins down

Steve I will keep my eye out for +4" stuff, although most of it tends to be smaller.

[Gareth_elms]

No real time lkmit on when to cut them, we do alot for natural england during the winter months upto end of march (bird besting season), as FC guidance says get the stumps quick with herbicide we use roundup pro bio. If your burning it make sure you burn it all any little twigs left may grow new shoots next year.

[aspenarb]

We clear hundreds of acres a year and no chemicals are used at the time, if its rake and burn , cut/chipped or mulched the regen gets sprayed off the following years as part of a program.

 

Bob

[aspenarb]

We mulched this area twelve months ago and this regen has popped up, not a huge problem to follow up with backpacks at a later date.

 

 

 

 

Its not bad when you consider some of these area`s were choked up with Rhody to height of thirty feet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 23, 2016 by aspenarb

[PaddyFF]

Looking good aspenarb. Hell of a job to do by hand without machinery

[aspenarb]

Looking good aspenarb. Hell of a job to do by hand without machinery

 

Still have plenty to do by hand Paddy, we cant trash the footpaths or rights of way through these places with machinery so there is plenty to cut and chip by hand.