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I’ve never used salt to kill trees, but I have used salt on French Fries, and in just a short time, they were all gone!!
😂🤣 yes, salt works very well for that too 😋🍟
When salting roots, you should make more holes. Then use a funnel (a cone rolled from plastic or paper works in a pinch) to get salt down into the holes. It takes 3-5 years for the stumps to really break down. We’ve done this with the ever present cottonwood trees that are native to our area but have a tendency to over-run a yard if left to their own Medusa ways. That’s definitely a good description.
We do the same with spruce stumps. We also cut them off as close to the ground as possible.
A recommendation.... put the bags of salt up on wood or a pallet and not directly on the floor. It will draw the moisture up out of the ground and become a brick of salt. Love watching the adventures and how beautiful your new property is becoming with lots of hardwork.
I'm from Australia, Can I recommend you harvest some of the leaves and store them in your watermill. One the smell but 2 that you can press the oil. Eucalyptus oil is a brilliant disinfectant and used for Soooo many human consumable items.
Also if you store the Eucalyptus wood you want for winter inside the Watermill in a safe place it will help create a lovely smell inside and be less likely to burn if a bush fire was to be outside. The oil in the timber is not as bad as leaves, but is still there!
You're doing a great job! Well Done! N Congratulations on both your properties and the ones on wheels!
2 week "salting" follow-up at the end of the vid! If you'd like to help support our future reforestation efforts, using native, fire-resistant trees (cork oaks, etc) please consider joining us on Patreon ❤ We love and appreciate you! Britty et Drew
Maybe contact fire Dept they train crews for clearing fire breaks in the United States. Also fire crews from camps. They are model prisoners on way out they have to meet guidelines to be chosen for fire camps. They cut fire breaks and brush control all year long in US. The table is a wire spool. Love you guys. Hugs from So Cal
Hey Brit. Try using a funnel to get the salt into the holes that you’re drilling. You’ve got quite the project but no better way to learn your land.
Can’t financially help right now, but sending lots of love, hugs, prayers and good vibes to you and your beautiful property!! 💗🤗🙏💪🌟 Mary in SoOC.
Please please please be very very very carful using that tools
I spread salt throughout a big patch of poison ivy, it killed it off.
Rock salt is the best method for killing off all unwanted vegetation, with the tree felling you are doing as well, you will have it beat, good luck from the UK
Thank you for the encouragement! 💚
Great idea
Funnel to get the salt i to the holes
Wonder what the previous owners buried on the land😱Be careful
You need a funnel or made a very thick solution …called a slurry…..easier and in liquid form is absorbed faster -more efficiently
Ooo good idea!!
Hey guys, plant tip: at exactly 1:22 in this video with the window open onto the brambles, etc. the vine reaching up to where Drew's left thumb is looks like a passionfruit / passionflower, probably a "banana" type, such as Passiflora mollisima (google the name). It has smooth, 5-lobed leaves and tendrils similar to a pea plant, and it's also sort of fleshy like a pea plant (and will not feed fire). If you can save them or spot any others around, they are worth keeping and encouraging. They produce beautiful flowers and fruit, and can be grown on a pergola or trellis to provide shade and can cover quite a bit once established (and can grow fast but are easy to control as they are soft, have no thorns and don't become all that woody nor are really invasive).
Thank you!! Yes, we will try and save 😍🙏✨
@@Mrandmrsadventure some other ideas. When the blade ban is in place, try a scythe if they are allowed. They accomplish much the same as a motorized blade, albeit with more "elbow grease", and more slowly. Also, the salt trick for killing eucalyptus stumps might work best if you make the holes up against the inner bark and add some water. The wood of trees is not living tissue usually; the tree's sap, its "life-blood", flows through the inner bark primarily, so getting the salt directly into it would probably be most effective.
I was thinking a funnel might also help to get the salt directly into the hole.
FYI: I’ve read that if you pour water into the hole of the stump after the salt really makes it work faster, also tying a plastic garbage over the stump again speeds up the process. Hope this helps!
I love me a passionflower vine but if one were to cut it back it would grow back even faster! They have a passion for lifel, lol
i Love Your Deep Breaths In and especially the Out breath as I can hear yours ....so calming.
You are the most endearing couple that I watch. Loving all your endeavors and progress you are making, together with help from your neighbors. Cant wait to see the mill renovation begin. Much love ❤
Great explanation about why the metal blades are restricted. Would have never guessed that in 100 years, but suppose it makes sense!
Yeah, in Portugal we cant use metal blades in summer because it staart fires when 40 plus °C.
Living in Australia we have massive amounts of Eucalyptus trees & our Koalas love living in them & eating the leaves! 🐨
I love the oil & dilute it with water to freshen up the floor & benches! 🤗 So glad you have Luis to help with the clearing & making it fire safe as we know all about bushfires 🥺🔥 On a brighter note congrats with getting keys the future will be so satisfying renovating your incredible home (not on wheels)! 😁🥂💜💙🇦🇺
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Wonder would Koalas thrive in Portugal? There ya go, all ya gotta do is start a Koalas habitat, hahahaha. That shouldn't take long hahaha
@@Jennelle1958 I don't think they would survive in the wild in another country other than Australia. There are some in Zoos around the World but they are endangered & need organisations like WWF to monitor population. We lost a massive amount of Koalas & many other animals in wildfires in 2019 so they are precious! 🤗🇦🇺
@@Jennelle1958doubt it. They eat a specific type of eucalyptus.
Better not to mess with the eco-systems... Each one to his own, right? Besides, I don't think coalas would like the cold winters here.
An Australian tree. They contain oil which is why they burn so well. The leaf travels in the wind/ thermals and can start spot fires kilometres from a fire front. May I suggest when drilling you lift the drill bit occasionally to clear it, should make it easier to operate and on the drill
I've used rock salt & Epsom salt to kill tree stumps, I've always combined it with water to penetrate the roots & soak the stump. Without water will likely take longer, especially in the summer with the dry weather. So exciting to see the changes each week. Little by little big & small changes. ❤
Great point, thank you!! 💚
Also use a giant straw with a funnel st the top. Water in after that
@@Mrandmrsadventure We also have used salt and hot water or just water. We have used this method on weeds, where there aren't close to other vegetation that could be killed in the process. Your doing great guys.
I worry about salt too much salt spreading too far and ruining the soil for a good long while.
Love that your neighbours help with the tree clearing. It’s to the benefit of everyone to work together to protect each other’s land from the fires. 😍🇨🇦 p.s. maybe don’t leave the salt bags directly on the floor as you have leaks/damp floor.
Glad you are still getting some rains. See you guys on Sunday 💯💯
Many decades ago, when my late husband and I were a young couple with nothing to make a household with, he like you two, found an industrial spool in the course of his trucking job. He brought it home, sanded it, covered the top with new smooth pine boards and trimmed the table top with a wide brass band. It was our very nice looking coffee table for many years along with a scavenged 100 year old, horsehair stuffed, black, leather chair. It’s really fun to see you guys getting your land in good shape. Wonderful to see the mighty efforts, research, neighborliness and foresight you are putting into it!
I'm amazed by the response of the locals to your call for "help"! First Nelson and José, now Luis. And he seems to be an experienced lumberjack, too! Usually it's the area's "expats" who already have an organised network that helps other "expats", mostly due to the ease of communication, but I see that the locals aren't afraid to volunteer for the jobs even if the language is a barrier.👍
I commend you for introducing the Portuguese names of things in the middle of your English speech, Drew, it shows that you're starting to get familiarised with some terms. The more you use them, the easier the pronunciation gets. Keep doing that and in no time you'll be speaking half English, half Portuguese in the videos. 😄
14:29 - That's a fibre optics reel, probably from a recent expansion of the rural fibre optics' network in the area. What was inside might be just fibre and not glass _per se._
14:37 - It's very easy, actually. If you ever got a table through a door where it apparently wouldn't fit, you'll know how to make the reel fit through your door. 😉 I just hope you're not thinking about disassembling it.
18:00 - Oh boy, you did it... 🤷♂
Hi from Vermont. Lay some wood under the salt bags, the salt can damage the floors. Also maybe find some buckets with screw tops to store the salt in. We use food grade buckets with screw tops to store food in.
You guys work so hard. A day will come when all the hard work will be over and you can relax and look back at this time. ❤❤❤❤
You have to drill holes and I would say 5 or 6 in a tree. I don’t think salt setting on top will do much good. Good luck.
Shared salting outcomes at the end of this vid, so far so new growth! 🫶
I love watching you guys and your journey. No man is an island and it's nice that neighbors are giving their hands to help you. Stay safe and healthy. God bless you guys. ☺️💖🙏
that is how i have done it for years, drill holes and pour salt in them, it take time , but does work, and im in SC
Thank you so much for the rock salt tip re. Tree stumps and vegetation . We will use that on invasive weeds and eucalyptus trees. Such an exciting journey for you both ❤❤❤
Really glad to see you talking these dangerous invasives.
You get a variety of eucalyptus trees, there is heaps in Australia and it's food for koalas
Hello! Two suggestions from Canada for future salt application, 1. Funnel and 2. Dissolve in Vinegar. I've used both to good success, but will likely need multiple applications. I suspect a few tablespoons of salt won't be sufficient to destroy a large root ball. Liquid application is faster, so might enable to cover more ground in the same amount of time. Good progress on a tedious but potentially life saving job. I admire your tenacity!
Wow, lots of work. You are going to really need to get to work planting clover or yellow wood sorrel - something sturdy - on that hill to keep the erosion under control now that you cleared it. Looks great!
Eucalyptus makes great mulch if you have access to a mulcher. Also, the trees are fire adapted ads the burn and regrow. The timber is also9 great fire wood when you dry it. If you soak and boil the leave y ou get a great oil product. They are great dry country plants that's why they do so well here in Australia. Cheers.
I'm from Australia, the Eucalyptus trees caused major fires here in Australia about 3 years ago. Sometimes called 'the devils trees from hell'. 🙂
so definitely worth our efforts of removing and restoring balance 🙏💚
You could get a distiller and make essential oils from your eucalyptus trees
Here in California, USA, I had planted several Eucalyptus trees. Over the years I had to remove some. They will start to resprout, if you cut them off above ground. I discovered that, all I had to do was to "Griddle" them at ground level. That stopped the spouting of new growth. I used an Axe and/or a Pickax to do the griddling. Just a thought of something you might try. It doesn't cost anything and overall it is easy to do.
You could use some of that wood for woodturning, you could make table lamps bowls coat hangers etc etc etc
Root Kill which is essentially copper sulfate will kill trees & plants. To keep our sewer line free of tree roots we throw a handful of pennies & small pieces of copper scrap into the clean-out trap once a year. Doing that has saved us from having to hire a plumber to clean out the roots every year.
Even when your cleaning up your land you look like a beauty queen! You're such a beautiful, wonderful and amazing couple. I hope all your dream come true on your new home! Stay Safe and Enjoy Life 😉 🙏 ❤ Hugs from Fort Stockton, Texas...❤
Where you have removed the trees on that slope, watch out for soil erosion when you get heavy rain. Perhaps stack wood horizontally on the slope as a barrier.
I’d try getting a funnel that you can insert into the hole you made and then put the salt in. Hope it works.
Sooooo, sometimes, the deep breath that I take with you is the reminder I need to breathe. 😂🎉😊
We need the little reminder too 😌🙏✨
Yes, I have used that method. After you have finished melt wax in the top to seal it and cover if possible. I used black rubbish bags.
Hello . I follow your channel and advise you next winter to plant oaks on the ground to avoid fires and to avoid wild weeds growing. Good job 👍
Yes! That is our plan, along with planting other fruit trees and “firefighter” trees, like Mediterranean Cypress - they grow fast and create a fire barrier 🙏💚
I live in Australia and we are surrounded by Eucalyptus trees. They are dangerous as heck during fire's. We were in the new years eve 2019 fires. Our house was saved but lost sheds etc. Very scary. Cant do much about wild fires they are crazy but you are doing what you can. Well done massive job !
thank you loves 🙏 may we all be safe and protected and help restore balance to these lands 💚
Well done guys. You guys are working it for sure!! If you want to log those for fire wood then get cutting and chopping before they dry out. When the Fresh and green then they easy to saw and split. After awhile the become harder as the dry.
Ask your friendly chainsaw guy to cut a cross on the stump with his saw after he fells each tree, and I agree with the person who mentioned soaking the salted stump with water to aid it soak in.
Much Love ! Hope you are having a great time !
You guys really made me laugh today😆… the dead drill in the stump, getting the table into the house, the table falling apart, water sloshing etc…. I have a tool that extends and has a magnet at the end so I can easily pick things up that have fallen in tough to reach spots. It doesn’t work on all metals though. But it is oh so handy to have! Thanks for sharing! God bless🙏🏼😎🥰
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I love that your Millhouse adventure is happily attracting new viewers to your wonderful channel 💟
Reminds me of my husband and I 33 years ago. Making our home. New everything with 4 little kids. We worked hard and made our home. You got this!
Your home place is becoming so beautiful.❤
Hey guys! Greetings from Puerto Rico! Love your channel! By the way, instead of pouring the raw grains of salt on the tree stumps, try making a very concentrated salt solution by dissolving the salt grains in water and adding dishwashing detergent and vinegar to the mixture. Then, use a pipette to pour that mixture through the holes you digged in the tree stumps. Or use a Sprayer to deliver the mixture inside the whole. That has worked for me! Eucalyptus trees have a very intricate and extense root system, and preparing this mixture will ensure that the solution gets deeper and closer to the roots and dry them out. Bright and Abundant Blessings from Puerto Rico! We love you guys!
You can also use that auger you guys have have to dig deep holes around the tree trunks and deliver the concentrated salt + vinegar + dishwashing detergent solution to the roots. Just a thought.
I’m a new subscriber and love your channel! It’s so nice that you have local heroes to help clear your land. You are both so much fun to watch. Keep up the great work! 🥰
Thank you love!! 💚
🇨🇦👋 I used a funnel to maximize the salt going into the stump.
you should grow food or at fruit tree near those holes. perfect organic fertilizer.
Having cleared a buffer zone you are still in danger from embers, they can travel 100's of meters ahead of a fire. Clean gutters rubbish away from house etc.
Great job cleaning the truck and getting rid of those trees. Amazing what you figure out to do. Fascinating!
Até logo 👋 😊🥰
Great vid enjoyed the added audio of the birds chirping at the end. Would love to see drone shots to see progress of tree removal.
Stay tuned! 😊
Use some of the logs to make a wood shed to organize your firewood. You can also use them to build planter beds for herbs .
Whoa, Brittany being all ruthless and treekiller-ish! You guys have the right idea - there is nothing more destructive than wildfire, and they are predicting a bad fire-summer.
It was counterintuitive at first, but all in all, it is the best way to love our land back to life, and to keep it protected it for generations to come 🙏💚✨
It’s hard to see the trees go ..but knowing the fire devastation Theo and Bee went thru it’s understandable ❤
Wow lots of work😉❤️
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You can harvest the Eucalyptus foliage for cut foliage to be used by florists or to make esential oils rather than waste it.
Copper nails are also good at killing off unwanted trees...get them into the roots and they'll deal with them soon enough.
Just make sure they're not coated in any anti corrosion surface finishing...use some sort of high grit sandpaper to remove it from the surface if you're unsure
fascinating! thank you for sharing 🙏
@@Mrandmrsadventure i noticed a while back that you took a hand full of weeds from the river bank and suggested that they looked good enough to eat.
Yeah, don’t do that.
Those things were either Hemlock which would kill you in about 24 hours…paralysing you from the legs up…or possibly water Hemlock…which will do the same in half the time.
Not sure if you’ve seen anyone else talking about it in that vid or not.
Basically, if it looks like that and it’s next to water, then, probably avoid.
It does taste nice though by all accounts.
Welcome to Portugal and nice video guys!
Use a funnel and a thin stick. Pour the salt into the funnel and use the stick to keep it flowing into the hole. Avoid getting salt on the ground.
Also start cutting the "weeds" From the top to the bottom. It's easier.
It's really cute to see you two learn about the culture and your new property together.
We're all looking forward to going along the journey with you. ☮️
The portugese people are the kindest always willing to help , I'm glad yous have got lots of those trees down ❤
Try chain instead of a blade, it works really good. Britney, get yourself a faunal and yes the salt really works, but you need to fill the hole and pack it a bit.
always fun to have comments from you again 🤗
@@Mrandmrsadventure When Lee killed herself and everyone was talking about it like she tragically died, I just couldn't hang. But I'm happy to be watching you guys again. I know your build content will be fun, and funny and good for others who plan to do a similar thing.
I might try this. I have five types of invasive plants. That's a big job. Stay safe.
This video was recommended to me by TH-cam, I’ve spent the last three days catching up and watching all your old videos!!!!
Today I’ve finally caught up 🎉
I can’t wait to follow the rest of your adventures with this beautiful old mill….
A quick tip with salting the stumps is to add water, so it becomes more slushy and will fill the holes better as well as absorption into the plant…..
I also agree with moving into part of the building, just put up a temporary door into the new part of the building, giving you time to work on the old part first…
How exciting to have you along for our journey and to know that you have seen so many of our past videos! And thank you for the slushy salting tip 🫶😊
Me too
You are such troopers open to working and learning. I love the mix of work and play in your videos. You have already moved mountains…take care of your heart energy and each other.
Such an interesting episode - you and your audience learning - so glad your viewership is growing you guys deserve it!
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Well done for getting rid of those awful eucalyptus!
You should use a funnel to put the salt in the hole of the trees trunks
Wow. How much work you have accomplished 😊 That’s amazing. You work so hard. Love you both. Your dream is becoming beautiful already. Wondering how cold it gets in the winter and will you be able to get into the house or still be using your van. ?? It’s absolutely grand. So happy also your getting help from the locals. That’s so amazing and gracious. Your so lucky and thankful. 🫶🫶🙏🙏🙏💯💯
From Michigan US
Very interesting: learning a lot from you guys about conservation and land management. By the time you finish, you're going to be experts. The way your friend and helper was swinging around that ax breaking up the trees was very impressive. You're certainly lucky to have him. Every time I tune in, I'm surprised at the progress. In spite of a few salt spills; great job!
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Those trees and thick branches come in handy when treated for all sorts of things.
The leaves when steamed is great for the airways.
Look out for honey too.
Hola chicos ,me encanta verlos trabajar para que quede limpio el terreno.El eucalipto esta bien que los saquen porque crea muchas raices y pueden dañar la propiedad.,Sigan asi y me encanta ,porque puedo leer los comentarios, TH-cam me los traduce en español .besos desde Córdoba ARGENTINA 🇦🇷💋 😊
Aww bless your hard work with success. So important for you to get these trees Away from your property. Hope you Take time to relax & chill as you are working So hard. Love the table 🎋!!! Lovely neighbors wanting to help very lovely people 🪵🪵🪵🪵
Keep safe Take care Both 💙🩷☕️☕️💐
Sooo glad you are getting rid of the eucalyptus
Great video guys!
great job folks be careful too. from UK
It is found in many lozenges, cough syrups, rubs, and vapor baths throughout the United States and Europe. Herbalists often recommend using fresh leaves in gargles to soothe sore throats and treat bronchitis and sinusitis. Eucalyptus ointments are also used on the nose and chest to relieve congestion.
wow! hard day's work! i was blown away with all the fireproofing you have to do with all of the eucalyptus trees!
glad the locals are helping you guys out! their knowledge is priceless! blessings! 🕊
Hi, new to your channel and enjoying your journey very much. I use salt with boiling water as a weedkiller. The salt dries out and the boiling water sterilises. The expanding foam being eaten by vermin, the foam is quite poisonous to the rats/mice if swallowed in large quantities, when you use it in future, use wire wool first to help block the gap, they hate the wire wool on their whiskers and go elsewhere.
I'm thinking that when you finish the project on the property, you will have a house and a very beautiful place 🤗 .
Go ahead and don't give up on your dreams.
Welcome, greetings 🇵🇹 .
Thank you for the salt idea friends, i didnt know this at all. You are so brave for all this hard work but dont burn you. Sometime it's not bad to get away for one day to refresh.
Soooo much fun watching newbies muddling along! Lol
I am sure 🤪🥰🤗🙈
IT is the oil in the leaves that explodes when fires are approaching ,these are but young trees ,those pods are called GUM NUTS ,many many types of these trees ,but as i said earlier use diesel and don't poison the soils with salt
Great job. Sooo much hard work.
Please do your home work on the salt. If it leaches into the ground much more vegetation will die off. Property Looking great.
It’s funny, but I’m an Aussie who has grown up learning how to live with the threat of fire, have watched my home burn to the ground, yet for all of this, I wouldn’t part with our beloved eucalypts. They feed out native species, provide spectacular bush land environments for a massive diversity of species….and they smell spectacular. It is an incredible sight to see the blue haze above the mountains west of Sydney that is caused by the eucalyptus oil. Don’t get me wrong, if I lived in Portugal, I would be there beside you helping to rid the land of the non native species, but it hurts my heart a little to see them cut down. I hope you you win the war because fire is no joke.
Hi Mixing undiluted vinegar with the salt is a lot more rapid in killing the tree. Still do the holes then pour in the solution. Hope that helps
Eucalyptus makes great firewood!
loved the episode, I was always taught that hammerong in copper nails would kill off tree stumps too. looking forward to the next
Delighted to have found your channel. You are both wonderful examples of 'can do'. I have a question for you. Have you though of using your stream to generate electricity? I often watch a guy called Marty T channel. He's in New Zeland and uses hydro to power his home. The generators are repurposed washing machines! OR tune into kris harbour. He builds water turbines in Wales. Good luck with your future home.
Yes! We have thought of this! Using solar power in the summer + wind and water energy at night/in the winter. Have been studying DIY water turbines but have not heard of the repurposed washing machines! Fascinating, thank you for sharing and for being a part of our journey! ❤️
You guys totally "a-salted" those stumps!
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What a job! Nice that you have help! Thank you Drew and Brittany, sending much love and positive vibes 😊❤🤗
Salt also dissolves concrete in case you are unware. :)
The salt experiment seemed to work well, at least with the tree stumps, rather less well with the back of the truck. Good once again to get help with the land clearance.
We put salt and then vinegar on our stumps. Works great. Are you not concerned that if you mulch the branches with seed pods that wherever you spread the mulch you will be growing more trees? I throw away certain weeds rather than put them in my compost for that reason.
You might use a small diameter funnel on the salt holes and pour water mixed with the salt. The salt will go deeper that way.
Get a large pump bottle mix the 50 / 50 water and salt and spray the stump surrounding area, once week for 3 weeks and they will die.
What you guys use a giant tarp over that skylight I live in Florida and we put tarps on leaking roofs all the time they work