Because you do have a great sense of humor, it appears you had an old goat get rid of the poison oak along with some help from the local deer.

@FLPhotoCatcher

Ай бұрын

Sheep can do the job also, and they are easier to keep. I raise hair sheep, which are better than wool sheep since I don't have to shear them.

@soscattered6126

Ай бұрын

​@@FLPhotoCatcherwoosh

@FLPhotoCatcher

Ай бұрын

@@soscattered6126 Wool

@MrWiseinheart

29 күн бұрын

​@@FLPhotoCatcherI didn't even know there's hair sheep 🐑 first time I hearing this.

I had 10 acres infested with poison oak that was fenced for cattle, but I needed it for sow (mother pigs) pasture so I put insulators on one of the wires so I could electrify it. When I turned the sows in the field they discovered that poison oak and thought it was dessert. They ate the easy stuff first, then what they could get at up the trees, and lastly rooted up the roots. When they were done there was none left with very little effort on my part.

@forestrussell-yount1355

26 күн бұрын

thats gnarly

You may be the only youtuber I have encountered who can do the sponsorships talks without it getting annoying, keep it up.

Here in the Great Smokies, I havent seen any poison oak. But the poison ivy grows EVERYWHERE. I get a bad rash just looking at it. Have you ever visited Appalachia? All the cool kids are visiting here. You could bring that snazzy string trimmer with you. I would even let you sleep in my cool log barn! (because you arent coming in the house with that mess all over your clothes)

@cathiwim

Ай бұрын

I would fix you dinner!! I am in the area as well!

as a landscaper, thats not mowing, thats scalping. do what must be done.🍻

This technique is the same when trying to eradicate bamboo. You wait for the plant to spend its energy creating new growth, then you cut it all down before it has time to store energy in its rhizome/roots. After a few years it's gone. Great piece of knowledge, thanks for sharing!

@Freedom_Half_Off

6 күн бұрын

It is the exact same for kudzu or wisteria ... except kudzu has roots that can weigh hundreds of pounds so it takes a little while . Really it is a principle as much as technique . In dry areas you are going to see quicker results than you will in the Southeast when rainfall is plentiful . Still ... there are droughts even in the South so knowing droughts help could be included in the planning if one comes along 😶‍🌫️

My lower back is hurting just watching you use that string trimmer on such a large area!

@bennym1956

26 күн бұрын

Yea, I have back problems.

@haku-jin

26 күн бұрын

Electric trimmers with an H-shoulder harness have done wonders for knocking down rough acreage without breaking my back.

You gotta love this guy, how could you not. To the point of this video……BRAVO!

"I'm not even wearing those socks." ~ sensible chuckle

"... use peer pressure if you have to." Its things like that, that makes me watch your videos. Thanks for all the content😂

Thanks to the inventor of the gas-powered string trimmer... Only digging by hand before...

04:30 min - 😂🤣😂 this joke made my day... deers at the sawmill...

I truly enjoy your videos. We have a problem with poison oak all around the flat where our home is located. I am going to follow your methods on eradicating that garbage. Our grandkids run all around the flat and usually one or both with get it. I have a friend that tried to burn it and he got it pretty bad from inhaling the smoke. Thank you for sharing your vast amount of knowledge.

I've found that poison oak roots are shallow so the plant can be easily uprooted--as long as you're not terribly allergic to it and you're wearing gloves and long sleeves.

Bookmarking that website for when I need to buy some more socks. Much appreciated 👍

I got goats specifically to get rid of a ton of poison oak and they won't touch the stuff. They eat the ground, trees, and tree bark barren and the poison oak just looks lively as ever.

Having tried other methods with less success I'm going try it your way. This makes more sense than what I was doing anyway. Liked and subbed!

I was waiting for you to whip out some TechNu at the end. Nice to see the poison oak not climbing up any of your trees either. Great piece of upper oak woodland, very defensible space as well. Thanks!

Nice airborne urishiol.

Who wouldn’t want goats? Goats are awesome!

@TopDedCenter1

28 күн бұрын

and all the cool kids are doing it.

@timseguine2

20 күн бұрын

They are literally goated.

the word is variable ! I keep getting nailed from the vines in the ground the leaves don’t bother me so much. Love your property

Wonderfully informative. Thanks.

Whoa! The cut to the saw, look at that mound of organic material! Spread'r around!

we also do this for invasive leafy spurge

Always entertaining and informative

As a Marine I really appreciate that you left no survivors while wacking those evil poison oaks off.

I’m totally jealous of your backyard!

Thanks!

Enjoyed from Texas!

I can’t weed whack like that anymore, but I do know that this technique is valid. I spot apply ground clear and brush mow now.

If the super close cut of the weed whacked works best for the poison oak I would probably just do that in the areas with poison oak and simply now with a mower the older areas that you have eliminated the poison oak from. That's a lot of work!

Had my skin start itching and crawling !

good job

No no, i´ll stay with chemical. Watching you spreading sap, oily particles and fine vegetation particles everywhere, i start scratching. May be you´re not allergic to it. Thanks for the tric.

Your ad caused me to subscribe 😆

I need a solution for poison ivy, but not a trimmer since I would turn into a giant bubble and die. Also a trimmer wont deal with the bigger vines (i have had up to 6 inches here, but i think I killed that plant)

@Raycheetah

Ай бұрын

1 gallon of vinegar 1 cup of salt and 1 tbsp Dawn dish detergent in weed sprayer. Apply on a sunny day when no rain is expected! =^[.]^=

@musicalchairs56

23 күн бұрын

I would love to know as well. I have decades old vines on my hickory trees. I had to use some spray on the growth on the ground because it was getting dangerous as it's spreading into my yard. I don't know how anyone would ever suggest using a string trimmer. Seems crazy. I just use my regular push mower and if the wind blows the debris back I'll have it on my legs and arms.

Congrats on the success with killing the evil poison oak! Wish I still had any form of turbo mode but sadly any more I only got slow and super slow. Also glad we are on the west side of the cascades so we have almost no poison oak to deal with downside is no shortage of sting nettles. Totally understand about uncooperative wildlife it is like they know when you want them and go into hiding

@christiedecker2724

29 күн бұрын

Stinging nettles are edible and an herb. You have a treasure there and don't even know it. Blessings! "Stinging nettle has been used for centuries to treat a variety of conditions, including: Painful muscles and joints, Eczema, Arthritis, Gout, Anemia, Hay fever, Diabetes, Osteoarthritis, Urinary tract infections (UTIs), Kidney stones, and Enlarged prostate"

In areas where the poison oak is thinner, is it worth only trimming patches where the plants are? Especially if you’re not worried about defensible space and having patchy grass?

You're going to weedwack the entire area???? Ma Ma Mia!!!

@edrose8358

Ай бұрын

You gotta really want it. Oh, and be sure to wear the correct socks. 🙂

@timgerk3262

Ай бұрын

Defensible space doesn't defend itself. Cut the grass 100 feet from anything you wanna keep, and branches six feet up.

We don't have poison oak here,just poison ivy. The great thing about poison ivy is if it's in your yard, all you have to do is mow it down each grass mowing you do. Doing that all spring and summer (except in dry season when it doesn't grow much anyway) kills it out by the fall. Fortunately I'm not super sensitive to it, so mowing it wasn't a problem.

if you wash within 8 hours or so you wont get a rash. however a dust mask may be a good idea

I have tons of poison oak. The idea of cutting it with a line trimmer seems crazy. Cutting normal weeds leaves me covered in debris. Wont I be covered in bits of poison oak too? Sounds like a disaster!

what brand line trimmer is that

Does this work with poison ivy as well?

String trimmer out for me, with my luck , it would splatter poison ivy juice onto to me ! no. I have a wooded area where it would be tough to use. If I had that type area you were doing, I would the lower deck and use my riding lawn mower.

200 sq ft down, 180 acres 😊to go.

Good luck PO says I will be back haha

I just dig it up by tha root👏🏽😂🤣

You couldn’t pay me enough to do that. I weed whacked some poison oak once and even though I was covered from head to toe with clothes, I still suffered from that awful rash literally all over my body. I get it so bad…

deer are like goats with lower maintenance. as for the technique, my dad refers to it as "denial of green" if you don't let the weed have any green, it will eventually give up and die.

@omegamale7880

28 күн бұрын

Goats will devour everything in sight whereas deer are particular about what they eat.

@kenbrown2808

28 күн бұрын

@@omegamale7880 yeah, they particularly like your strawberries and roses.

How about hiring somebody with a bunch of goats and let them be responsible after the grass is gone they come and pick them up. Makes sense to me.

;-)) the ending

A pretty susceptible person would likely get a good coating of oils from mowing like that, but very interesting concept of killing PO

I did the same thing with the Sage brush i had here on my property. Waited till july and August and cut them, and they just dried up and died.😉👍

Dig something with a flail mower

Hogs instead of goats? Ventrac ( expensive ) for the turbo mode areas?

Does the old goat (wife) work?

You don't need goats when you already have their relatives laying around the mill. I have same problem 5 under the trees by mine. Listen to people talk they are hard to hunt you have to be sneaky yet anytime of day I have several watching what I am doing

How do you kill it with out killing everything else

It looks like the poison oak has been replaced by the Western Black-Legged Tick.

skip the flowers that are in bloom while you weed wack and allow them to go to seed too.

Flail mower.

never seen deer running a sawmill before......

Those trees wont grow into good timber unless you plant more trees and push them to grow tall to reach sunlight

THATS not a forest its a dried out grasslands

Poison Oak is an important browse, meaning nutritional food source, for deer, and elk. So are Black Berry bushes and more. Your open understory tells the truth about how you feel about the animals who inhabit your forest land… or don’t. I get it that you have to take care of your bottom line, and that is wonderful, however, foresters typically ignore creating “habitat Islands” which feed the local creatures in lieu of planting ONE MORE TREE. There has to be a happy medium.

I'll keep the goats. Mowing 20 acres with a weedeater is nuttier than squirrel poop. Just like all these people with 10 acres of yard they mow once a week just to look at. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me to use good pasture & hay ground for wasting time and fuel.

scythe mowing would work and not spray poison oak material all over you.

Sock Fund 🧦

So I’m stuck using chemicals.

Gotta use goats. Gotta have…mutton curry

You should want….and then get goats.

Poison Oak is so bush league. Let’s see you deal with Kudzu or its northern cousin, the dreaded Bishop’s Weed.

Goats are awful. People don't understand that about them.

Why would you want deer to eat poison oak? Sounds more like animal cruelty.

@SilvaDreams

Ай бұрын

Deer are the natural control of poison oak. Though unless you are immune to it.. This is a horrid idea.

You own all that land? You must be a mega millionaire. And you don't just loll about on your sun deck drinking mint juleps, smoking cigars and discussing high finance with your pals? What's wrong with you?

This is the same way you deal with invasive bamboo.

Can it work on the DEMOCRATS PARTY. 😊😊