How to kill thorn trees

However, it is a challenge to cut. Echo the Tordon on the stumps after cut. Worked well for us......still have a ways to go, but I will get rid of them! Have you found others which are "thornless".......wondered if it was a male/female situation? Or are they entirely different varieties of trees?

"Honey" Locust has thorns, Black Locust does not.

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My goats LOVE honey locust.

use CROSSBOW its a brush killer its a lil pricy but not like round up, i bought 2 1/2 gallons for $120. you can get it in different sizes but bulk is cheaper. i mix it 1 pint to 3 gallons water kills every thing i spary with it.

You could also do this and then burn the stumps.


Cut all down and then goats?



Are you only interested in chemical ideas?

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Your county agricultural extension office can probably also give advice.

I have lots of Honey locus trees on my property and I cut them and pile them where they fall to keep the thorns from getting scattered over my property.

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Must be nice to have some tame and accommodating honey locusts, where you can just deal with the stumps. I have a viral strain of wild hair honey locust, where you might get the stump, but the feelers (roots under the ground) might extend 20 to 30' out from the main stem of the trunk. Kill the tree, and twenty sprouts pop up.

I've had to grub out all the roots to get mine.

I'm sorta touched, but I have problems with pouring poison out around my place. I prefer axes, hoes, fire, etc.

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I have found that just ringing or girdling a honey locust and spraying crossbow in that area will kill them. After a year or so they burn very well standing so I often just stack some brush around them and burn. If you cut them and don't get every thorn you will have flat tires for years. Those thorns get hard.

Remedy herbicide mixed with diesel fuel and hand applied with a paint brush in a band around the basal area of the trunk of the locust any time of the year, even winter, is effective. The solution must be applied in a complete band and not to the point of runoff. There should be no soil contamination when applied in this manner.

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That's a good alternative to chemicals. Fence it in with a good electric fence, cut them down and let the goats eat all the sprouts that pop up until they quit popping up.

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Thanks for all the good ideas. I have to cut them down because I'm rebuilding fences and in the part that is in the woods is where I'm going to build a new house and I want to save as many of the good trees as I can. I have to be careful because I have three nice springs that feed into a nice pond full of large fish. the new house will have a walk out basement onto the pond.