This just happened with a Lemonade stand in Alabama. A boy wanted to go to Disney world and his mom didnt have enough money… so the boy opened a lemonade stand. Neighbors called the labor board and the mother may be in trouble… in violation of labor laws.
I rode my bicycle along with neighbor boys miles to put up hay every summer for a few bucks… to my parents…working was the law. I made something like $5 per day working on our farm… tobacco, corn, chickens and horses. I think some folks call it an allowance nowadays. (yes i bought my own bicycle with money earned from working).
Those days are gone… ive never seen kids work like we did… let alone kids riding bicycles on the main roads. We rode the main roads until our tires were bald looking for pop bottles to cash in.
According to my parents…our generation was much softer than they were… I had it made and didnt even know it.
Nope, glyphosate isn’t sufficient. It is best used on grass.
My preferred chemical for poison ivy is a brand-name product called “Crossbow”. Use
it and you’ll be poison ivy free (until the next bird brings in and deposits some more seeds from some poison-ivy up in a giant tree somewhere–since that the place most seeds are produced, not at ground level)
Glyphosate has worked fine for me on poison ivy and other plants, even trees, but there are a few things it doesn’t kill. Takes one to two weeks and permanently kills poison ivy. It can take two months or more to kill a tree with a 12 inch diameter but it will permanently die. 1/2 holes need to drilled into the base of a large tree and the glyphsate need is poured into the holes.
Crossbow which was previously mentioned contains Triclopyr. Yes Glyphosate can and will kill just about anything, but for toughier or woodier things, Triclopyr seems to do so faster and more effectively. Mix or find a brand that contains the two, hard to beat.
I cleared a very brushey grown up half acre down the ridge behind my house with a axe, hatchet, bowsaw and loppers… near 20 years ago.
There was some poison ivy, lots of briars, muscadine wild grapevine …many many saplings and non keeper trees in the 4-8 inch range and bushes… lots of buck bushes, ironwood.
As long as i dont touch poison ivy with bare skin… no problem.
It gets bush hogged a couple times a year now… and i can see deer and turkeys way down that ridge now… some of which end up in the freezer or on the grill
I’ve drilled mutiple 3/8" holes into 20’ red cedars and used a syringe to fill the holes with straight glyphosate. The cedars are still alive years later. Glyphosate is pretty worthless on woody plants IME
If your trying to kill scrub trees learn from a rabbit you dont need chemicals just girdle the base of trees. How many of you have lost a tree to rabbits or voles that way? 2 minutes with a machete , knife , or chainsaw and the tree is done for. This website is covered with sad stories of fruit trees lost to rabbits, i have a few i could tell myself.
Maybe you cut the tree down instead of girdled it. Girdling a tree kills it but cutting a tree down sends its energy to the roots instead of stealing its life energy.
Years ago i had a tree that was developing a hollow spot. Dug around in there and found many bullet slugs. Hard to say how many years those were in that tree but eventually they killed that part of the tree.
