The funniest thing is that the rebar was about 0.6' above ground level.
I don't think it happened on accident that pooch was either scratching his behind or didn't like the funny looking guy with a bright vest digging and pounding around in his backyard!
We did a project for the USACE in Baton Rouge, LA. and hired some local surveyors to help us out. Since they knew the area, they recon'ed the control monuments we were to use on one section of the project. They thought it was quite funny to take a dump on the monuments to leave us a little something something to remember them by....
The implied backyard enhancement easement also works along railroad rights-of-way.
Kent
The best mechanical line cutter I ever purchased was a heavy duty trimmer and a beaver blade (8"). It cut everything off at ground level. I think it would be perfect for your job. It is very safe, you don't have to bend over to get down to the dirt and it is amazingly fast.
This is not the brand of trimmer I bought, but it is similar.
http://www.toolbarn.com/tanaka-tbc-600.html
> Having spent some time today cutting line through a dense hillside thicket of bamboo ...
Some jurisdictions around here have designated bamboo an invasive species and forbidden its planting. I only wish someone had taken similar steps for Himilayan Blackberries, Scotch Broom, and English Ivy a hundred years and fifty ago.
> Some jurisdictions around here have designated bamboo an invasive species and forbidden its planting.
There are some dwarf varieties of bamboo that don't seem to spread as vigorously as the larger varieties. I've got a few clump of the dwarf variety that are more than forty years old and have extended in that time only a few feet from the original clump.
The rest of the bamboos are a nuisance.
Kent
> The best mechanical line cutter I ever purchased was a heavy duty trimmer and a beaver blade (8"). It cut everything off at ground level. I think it would be perfect for your job. It is very safe, you don't have to bend over to get down to the dirt and it is amazingly fast.
Well, the next time we need to cut a line through a bamboo jungle, I'll keep that in mind. A chain saw (overkill, obviously) and loppers did the trick this time, but it was a hassle.
Kent
Cutting line in S.E. Texas
Kent
..Is somewhat different than cutting line in the Hill Country
Hence the chainsaw or powerblade.
Kent
Follow that up with Roundup and it should last for years, otherwise, come fall it will be for naught.
🙂
I would add that one of the worst line cutting memories I have is hacking through a dense large thicket of Japanese Bush Honeysuckle when it was in flower and the blooms were full of pollen....
Hack with the machete...get covered with pollen....pull branches off of your head....sneeze, hack, cough....repeat.
What fun that was.
I have a nice patch of bamboo in my backyard...great privacy barrier.
Have not had to hack my way through it yet.
Thanks to all for making our Wisconsin winter a little more bearable today! I'll be putting on the snowshoes with enthusiasm.
By the way, you can keep your snakes, too.
Cutting line in the Bamboo Forest (like this?)
> Having spent some time today cutting line through a dense hillside thicket of bamboo along the rear of some lots adjacent to parkland, I think I have to say that I'd rather cut line through either a cedar or mesquite thicket any day. Add to that the yard waste disposal easement that common law apparently conveys by implication to owners of private lands bordering on urban park land and for decoration, add the pointed, knee-high stubs of old attempts to cut bamboo. The result makes the densest cedar brake or mesquital something to long for.
