On Jun 22, 12:12*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

I have a mulberry under my deck. *It's really getting out of control..
I chop it off every year, but I know that's just a Band-Aid.

Last year I cut it off, drilled deep holes in the stump, and dumped
in Roundup concentrate. *Didn't even skip a beat. *It's bigger and
badder than ever.

Are you in Texas? I think HeyBub said it's legal there to use plastic
explosives on out-of-control plants, as long as you fire a warning
shot with a 16" naval gun first.

There are other restrictions: Has to be "in season" and there's a bag limit.
I don't know the limit because no one pays any attention to that sort of
stuff around here.

Plastic explosives are for pussies (and also expensive). We generally use
what's on hand - typically Ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel. Set it off with
a standard #6 blasting cap.

When I was about 15 my dad got a summer job for me working as this old
guys farm hand.
One day we went out to clears some stumps out of a pasture he was
going grow crops in.


We spent most of the day blasting pine stumps withh dynamite. Toward
the end of the day there was a big oak stump left and the last of the
dynamite had failed to do the job. He had heard about using
fertilizer/ deisel fuel but had never tried it. He figured it couldnt
be as powerful as the dynamite so he mixed up about 200lbs of the
stuff in a portable cement mixer and stuffed the hollow core of the
oak stump with it.

Jimmie