how to remove tumbleweed?
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Twice a year we remove ours from our ranch. We created a "drag" which we pull behind the truck. It may take a couple of passes with your small truck, but it works. Make sure your drag is close to the ground, front & back. Good Luck!
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You need to develop an entire town where absolutely nothing happens - the tumbleweed always goes to those towns and tumbles by the doorways
You need to develop an entire town where absolutely nothing happens - the tumbleweed always goes to those towns and tumbles by the doorways
When the wind blows raise the fence on the downwind side.
Of course being from the coast I am thinking of the tumbleweeds that are actively tumbling.
burn it! burn it and till up the dirt if you want to get extra points.
umm..the only thing that ever worked when i lived in El Paso, tx was they gathered all the tumbleweeds in a gully and burned them...don't know if that's a solution in your situation or not
GET some thin nylon fishing line and tie them to gether.and use the line to tie them down or they will fly out. YOU can stack them high with fishing line. GET THE cheap stuff. BRING A SCISSORS OR KNIFE to cut the string when you get to your spot to unload. good luck.
They make great bonfires when they`re all dried out. but seriously, put on long sleeves and gloves, and rip them out by the roots,(works better when they`re small.)if you get them before they go to seed, they should`nt come back. lot of work, but if you don`t they`ll be back........
Make sure to get them while they are green as the will spread seed everywhere if you let them mature.
The easiest way to attack them is to get a good hoe. The tumbleweed has one main root. Wearing a heavy pair of jeans and boots, approach the weed from the side, sliding your foot under the plant until you come in contact with the root. Lift your foot slightly and step on the plant, pushing it aside with your leg and foot, exposing the root. Whack it off using the hoe. Flip it over, and wear gloves pick it up by the root or plant near the root and carry it to wherever you are taking it. If you want to haul it off you can. Otherwise, figure out a way to burn them if you locale allows.
If you want to do like most folks, simply leave them and then next big wind that comes along will make them someone else's problem... ;)
I've never had to deal with tumbleweed. I, like most farmers use chemical spray booms. And use broadleaf weed killers like 2,4D or maybe a Trimec or a Dicambria MCapp spray on them. Those are chems you can buy at any farm, AG, Coop store, But if you want instant death you need your Chemical App licence and you can get Paraquat ( an instant defoliant) or soil sterilizers like Carmex and Simazine with a lil Thionex. I deal with a lot of Scotch Broom where I live and the stuff is explosiviely weed noxitious.. It explodes its seed pods up to 75 feet when hit. Its hard to kill, its seed lay dormant for up to 10 years. But I keep it under control with 2,4D and 3,5,6T and MCapp and Diacambria with a WA 100 surfacant. and it works well.