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Your video was a godsend. Having put a lot of hours on my saw, which I love, I was having many of the same issues as you. Last Friday we we hit hard by Hurricane Helene here near Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Thank God I had ordered me needed parts several weeks ago, and used your video to overhaul my saw today. Now it’s almost as good as new and made shirt work of the first of many newly felled tree on our place. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Does it also choke the tree it's on?

I know it's been 2 years since you uploaded this amazing video, but I have a question. We have SO much buckthorn on our property and you mentioned cutting the and killing the autumn olive; why not pull it out the ground? Does it hurt or disrupt the soil to pull them out if we can?

@5:00 THANK you for the amazing explanation and examples around the complexities and issues with nitrogen! That was solid!

I've got about 5.5 acres of land and because of the ash tree die off, there is honeysuckle all over. I've been wondering if it's worth it. Ive cleared some areas and it's much better, but the size seems overwhelming.

Thank you for sharing this. My understanding is that the 2 species readily hybridize. That's why it's important to remove the non-native (C. orbiculatus) because it's changing the gene pool. For the same reason, it's important to remove the non-native white mulberries because it hybridizes with our native red mulberry (Morus rubra).

I've never seen the Oriental Bittersweet in the wild, but we have quite a bit of American Bittersweet here in west-central Missouri.

This is so timely! We were taking a walk and came across some bittersweet today. Unfortunately it is the non native version, which was easy to identify based on the video

Tell us about the weight when full? I am guessing it's easy to put on empty?🥴

Excellent video especially for us women 😁

Great videos... I just found your channel and look to it now for guidance....

Great video. I have read that oriental bittersweet produces "urushiol" just like poison ivy. Am I wrong?

Thank you. Great video. We treated a really large one a few weeks ago with the hack and squirt method. How long do you wait between treatments? It’s in an area of my yard I’d like to reclaim but want to make sure we don’t get more suckers!

Thank you. Great video. We treated a really large one a few weeks ago with the hack and squirt method. How long do you wait between treatments? It’s in an area of my yard I’d like to reclaim but want to make sure we don’t get more suckers!

At 16:01 minutes he said biodegradable bar oil. Most of the big brands went to biodegradable bar oil. I am not sure if the EPA enforced all bar oil to be like this. This is a great vidoe for some 1 starting of. Well done

This reminds so much of kudzu..both from Asia and choking out our state of Tennessee!

Its not invasive in my yard. Half of mine died off from volutella blight a few years ago, and Im struggling to bring it back. Whats left has never looked as healthy as it once did.

Please, how can I contact you? I need a tree Elaeagnus umbellata .

Here in PA, I struggle to differentiate between saplings of tree of heaven and sumacs

I'm doing the same thing with Japanese Honeysuckle and Oriental Bittersweet. For the larger vines, I bought this neat little new fangled battery operated chain saw. So far it's been a little beast.

Thank you for this information. I am against an area that is being restored to native prairie. A friend gave me some of these plants. As a result of your video, I am not going to plant them as I do not have a contained garden. Thank you!

So As you probably know, Lantern Flys love this tree. I have 1 mature Tree of Heaven on my property and the lantern Flys are all over it. I sprayed the tree and killed a lot of lantern Flys. My question is, should I cut the tree down and hopefully the Flys will go away, or will they then attack my other trees? I have Oaks, Maples, Sycamore, and others that I want to protect. So I'm wondering if I should keep the tree of heaven, sort of like bait for the lantern Flys so they don't go after my other trees.

medicinal plant.

Thank you for the information. I've been using Acclaim Extra on my Stilt grass. On the first go-around, I mixed 1 gallon of water, surfactant, and 9ml of AE. It didn't faze the stilt grass. Three weeks later, I bumped the dosage to 15ml. That amount made it look a little sickly but still didn't kill it. I'm considering going to 20ml next. Do you have any thoughts?

In our experience, Autumn Olive is a pioneer plant, meaning, it only grows in fields and at the edge of mature forests. You'll never get a "forest" of autumn olive. They just don't grow tall enough to ever compete with something like an oak tree. And you'll never see it growing in a forest of tall and mature trees. Eventually, oaks and other typical forest trees will grow taller, causing shade, and stopping it's growth. Of course until someone, or nature, comes along a clears a forest. This starts the process all over again. I have to disagree that autumn olive will ever compete with trees we typically see in an actual forest. Just walk into any forest that has mature trees and try and find any autumn olive. Your example here is of a very very young forest area (judging by the trunk size of your trees), and I would argue the nitrogen is actually helping your native trees grow faster.

glyphosate is linked to non hodgkin's lymphoma, a friend of mine in Canada used Roundup for years on his property to control poison ivy, he died of non hodgkin's lymphoma at 57.

I love this tree !

A nicely pruned spherical burning bush is gorgeous!

Dewalt is a garbage brand, over priced for failure after failure !!

Ty, great video

I'm having the same issue about to replace my unit now. Tnks.

What's wrong with the tree? Far as I can tell, they just chill.

Thank you so much for these vids

Thank you I don’t know why it was so hard to find a video that actually makes sense.

Poor thing

And now the Lord God has sent the spotted lantern flies to decimate our food crops... Turn back to the Lord and repent otherwise we are doomed.

This is SO HELPFUL!!

I'm glad you've made this video. I did buy a pint of aclaim. I didn't have any Chinese/jap Stilt grass 4 or 5 yrs. ago but now I'm fighting it like crazy. I've been pulling and spraying. not sure what the time line is for the final termination of the invasive plant once sprayed but its seeming to be a bit more difficult to kill. maybe its just a matter of waiting a bit longer? I've been mixing it a bit heavy I think It did kill a bit of my wild ferns, I try to keep a little distance from them and pull the rest but being on a hill side I'm sure it works its way down hill eventually. I payed almost $150.00 now a pint. could maybe find it cheaper somewhere else but I know the economy & Inflation is the past few years has went out the roof $$$$ on everything. Im using a 2 gal sprayer Not sure if im getting my mixture right yet. How does this plant spread so easily what does the seeds look like? I mean its like it spreads like the dew falling on the ground magically, ha,ha, It has even been trying to push its way into my immediate front and back lawns. Ive got about a 3 acre area I think I need to work on section by section which I have for the past 3 years this is the first year I've tried Aclaim though so hopefully this will help catch me up verses pulling by hand. Plus I know Ive got to get other plant life growing in its place eventually. This invasive grass just kills much of the surrounding plant life all around it. chocking off everything it seems. Well thanks again for helping people fight this battle of invasive plant. Im grateful for your help.

I bought a backpack sprayer at Tractor Supply last year, and after watching your video, it's obvious that it's the same as the upgraded Field King sprayer from your link. Mine was branded "Roundup" (until I pulled the sticker) but I can confirm that all the upgraded features are definitely worth the premium. It's still $99 at Tractor Supply although no longer in stock at my local stores.

Do you have to trim the lower leaves off during the growing season?????

I was driving through NJ and PA the other day and this stuff is growing EVERYWHERE. Also probably the reason why there are so many spotted lantern flies.

My bolt broke off inside the sprocket and I don't know how to get it out without damaging the threads that holds the sprocket

Just picked up the DCCS670 (16"). Is there a way to defeat the plastic bar tightener to increase the torque there? The lack of lube holes on the bar tip seems like a weakness. Have you looked at Oregon bars? Any way to add metal dogs for better leverage, or would that stress the engine too much? I will need to avoid pushing the dewalt like I do my old Stihl 024 when I need that top end power. Main use is for opening quad trails for forestry work and layout. Bigger windfalls I leave for the loggers. Red Flag days are a big issue around here so this helps with that too. Thanks for the video - and STAY SAFE!

There is a creek at the bottom of our woodland slope that is dry, unless it rains. I have some 4-6’ TOH near there. Could you tell me what solution to use for a basal bark application? The diameters of the trees are too small for hack and squirt. Thank you so much for all of your informative videos. I am in the Western Hills area of Cincinnati!

China been sending lil shots for yesrs with thisbtree and these stinkbugs and lanterns smh

That last part is where your Cognitive Dissonance really shows. You're looking out over all that ruined ecosystem, even acknowledging that it might have been someone's garden at one time, and then telling folks to go ahead and plant the invasive non-native plant... but keep it contained. You don't want to come straight out and admit that it's a bad idea, that the plant is too much trouble and too high a risk, even as you're standing in the middle of an ecosystem overrun with invasives that are destroying the food web. I've been trying to talk several local churches into doing away with their non-native landscaping by pointing out that God's plan has a greater depth and breadth than we can really understand. Dr. Doug Tallamy touches on this in his videos where he shows who we've so horribly fragmented the local ecosystems that we've seen a 40% decline in insect populations since the 70's. That's basically in my lifetime! How did this happen? Because people forget that while we might be stewards of the land, we don't have perfect understanding of how the ecosystem functions. Think about how Kudzu has ruined millions of acres of ecosystem throughout the south, and is slowly working its way north. That plant was thought to be a great thing by the arrogant fools who promoted it. They thought they knew best. And look at what they accomplished. Look at all those many families who were ruined as their homesteads were overrun and their property values tanked. Look at the ecosystems destroyed. As someone currently battling against invasive plants here on my land, all things planted by previous owners or neighbors, I'm absolutely wrecked by the costs of trying to fend the stuff off so it doesn't ruin my property value. Bamboo, Privet, Creeping Charlie, English Ivy, Wisteria..... every year sees me spending hundreds of dollars in fuel and herbicides, and hundreds of hours of my "leisure" time. And all because people weren't good stewards of the land and didn't appreciate what God put right in front of them. Honestly, this fetishization of foreign plants is a little weird, and it really stands out to me when I can travel all over the country and see the very same plants because everyone's buying from the same growers who promote their stuff in the same few gardening periodicals. If I never see another Crepe Myrtle, I'll be a very happy guy! As The Woodland Steward.... be the steward. Maintain the land as god designed, keep it healthy, and pass it on to the future generations.

We have hundreds of these tress and thousands of suckers. In the two years we have been at our house, they have spread significantly. The original owners may have planted them 14 years ago which would explain why there are so many..

we love our honeysuckle down in southeast texas and southern louisiana. it's so fragrant just like our magnolia trees and without them it would upend our birds & bees energy sources. they don't mind sharing...anywhere i walked as a kid there was bushes everywhere to sip like a mint julip! we wouldn't dream of tearing them down!

I got the same saw today. And my cat is just exactly the sam as yours. They must be sisters.

You like a toy electric saw because it just runs,yet here you ste tebuilding it. And you can buy a shit ton of gas for ehat justbone of those batteries costs. No thanks.