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Honeysuckle Popper - $139
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How to remove your dead bush honeysuckle
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It seems that everybody just talks about how to "kill" honeysuckle bushes and say nothing about how to "remove" them. There is a big difference, and you are about to find out that:
"Killing" honeysuckles is easy compared to what it takes to "remove" them.
No matter how you kill them, you will have a huge mass of stems to deal with. If you popped em out, you have the stumps too. You cant just leave them there, they look like crap, and you can only have so many brush piles. If you saw them off and leave the stumps, removal of stems is more difficult because you will keep tripping over the small stumps. That is why I say its better to pop out as many as you can to minimize that hazard.
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Creating brush piles attracts wildlife, and is a recommended thing to do if you have the space. Heres a good tip: Saw or lop them down to 3 parts. The brush part, the stem part and the stump part.
Where the brush pile is going to be, about 5-10 feet apart. lay down two pieces of rope or strap 10-15 ft long with a loop on one end. Strategically stack the brush on top of the ropes for the best effect, then loop the ropes over and cinch them down. This compacts the pile better and easier than jumping on it. Remove the ropes, and it stays compacted, enabling you to stack more in one place.
Cut the stems in pieces and stack them in a pile. Then take the stumps and pile them up.
The resulting 3 stacks will be much smaller than if you just piled them whole, and it provides 3 varied 'habitats'.
If you dont want brush piles, the only good option after that is to haul them out and chip them.
As I'm popping, I stack them in separate piles of 5-10, with the root end pointed in the direction I'm going to be hauling them. Leave space between the piles to walk through. To haul them, I take my rope with loop, wrap it around the stems near the end, cinch it down tight and tie it. This holds them together and makes it considerably easier to haul them.
For hauling longer distances, I at first thought I would need to invent something to make it more efficient, but I discovered an item that works good. Its the tree haulers nurserymen use to move balled trees around. Its sort of like an appliance dolly, but its wider and has large pneumatic wheels. The handles are such that one or 2 people can haul.
Point the hauler in the right direction and lay your cinching rope down 6-10 ft behind it. This is going to be used to 'cocoon' the pile after its stacked on the dolly. Then pile as many suckles on that thing as you can. Strap them to the dolly so they wont slide off, then go back and tighten the other rope around the brush. Tying it off like this stabilizes the pile and helps keep it from getting caught on things.
Burning them is a possibility if you live in the country. When I get about 10 piles laying around, I haul the first 2 stacks to an open area and set it on fire using newspapers. While thats burning, I fetch the next pile. They burn easily, even when freshly cut, but you have to tend it a lot to keep it going. I dont recommend making a giant stack and igniting it, because it will quickly become a very intense fire.
Sounds like a lot of work doesn't it. Well, it is. Hard manual labor. Like I said above, removing them is the hardest part. I'm not crying about it though, its a necessary part of the job, so it gets done.
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OK, enough of that hard work stuff!
Heres something else to do with your popped honeysuckles:
Make art out of them! :-)
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You'd think we would have better things to do! Mrs. Honeysuckle thought of this and it gives us something fun to do during the winter evenings. We have sold some, but are currently not. We have some lined along our driveway. Its a great conversation starter! As long as you like it starting with - "What the heck are those" :-)
Soon, I'll have instructions on how to do them yourself.
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Invasive honeysuckle shrub removal with an ergonomically designed garden tool
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