2006-12-19 08:15:59 · 11 answers · asked by Kyle3701 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The tree is causing harm to a building. I'd rather cut it down when the wood is dead instead of alive. Sorry for not giving more details. We do plan on planting a new tree much further from the building.
2006-12-19 08:24:25 · update #1
Use a chain saw and cut it down.
Drill as many holes as you can in the stump and slowly pour broad leaf weed control into each hole.
It usually takes a year or two to completely kill the tree.
Keep the wood because it is GREAT for BBQ. In Texas, the only good thing about a mesquite is the wood to cook with.
2006-12-19 16:14:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
best way to kill a tree: remove a strip of bark 4 inches wide all around the tree near the base. by this time next year the tee will be dead.
2006-12-19 08:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by wilrycar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like mushrooms you can get rope spawn for oyster mushrooms from Fungi Perfecti. You clear some bark at the base of the trunk and put the rope spawn around it tightly and it will grow oyster mushrooms on your tree while taking it out. The mushrooms are delicious and the website is pretty cool.
2006-12-19 08:53:01 · answer #3 · answered by tajmina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can girdle the tree by taking a saw and cutting the bark all the way around the tree.
2006-12-19 08:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by Squeegee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess the stuff they're saying might work, but I'd just get an arborist to take care of it right away. If you kill it, it might keel over in unpredictable ways. Plus, you've got a dead, ugly tree on the lawn for a year.
Anyway, your call...
2006-12-19 08:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by Jerry J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's growing under the house, like out the side, but roots underneath, cut it down to the stump. Buy a product to kill the stump. 'Stump kill' is supposed to work real well. if you can get at the stump, pull it after it is dead. If you think it will damage the house, just leave it, it's dead.
2006-12-19 08:48:04 · answer #6 · answered by Phone E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aww why do you have to kill the tree?
Get a tree guy to just come and chop it down it makes great firewood and they will also take out the stump.
2006-12-19 08:18:53 · answer #7 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go get someone with a chainsaw....I just cut down 5 last weekend below the surface.....they weren't real healthy is why i did it ....love trees and would never take one down unless it was causing problems...
2006-12-19 12:52:27 · answer #8 · answered by tafttootsie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you get hold of some large copper nails, about 4 inches longs and drive them into the trunk, or drill some holes into the trunk on a downwood angle and fill the holes with poison.
2006-12-19 08:21:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
drill a number of goodly size holes near the trunk , and pour diesel into the holes ---that should do the job .
2006-12-19 23:00:43 · answer #10 · answered by bill g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋