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I've seen hack and squirt discussed on here before, but I've never tried it....I usually cut them down and paint the stump.

I have a very larger weed tree that has been shading out some saplings I planted in what used to be the back side of a barn...the barn is long gone but the ground is extremely fertile from years of cow crap concentrated in that area.

I don't know for sure what kind of tree this is....I believe it may be a boxelder. It is approaching if not over 3' diameter. At around 7 or 8 feet up, the trunk splits off into several massive limbs going every which way. No way I could cut this down without a cherry picker. I guess my next best option is to kill it where it stands so that it stops leaching sunlight, water and nutrients.

What is the proper way to hack and squirt a tree this size? Girdle it with a chainsaw and then spray concentrated herbicide in the wound?
 
Since your just dealing with one tree and you are unsure of what it is, I would double girdle and put Tordon RTU in the cuts. Some trees do not kill well at all girdling without herbicide or will shoot up many rootsuckers.
 
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You can use a 50% Roundup mixture during the Fall when the sap is going down in the tree, but there are trees that you wont kill this. I like Tordon because I can use it in the Winter after deer season and havent seen anything it wont kill, including Beech, which is rather hard to kill.
 
smstone22 said:
You can use a 50% Roundup mixture during the Fall when the sap is going down in the tree, but there are trees that you wont kill this. I like Tordon because I can use it in the Winter after deer season and havent seen anything it wont kill, including Beech, which is rather hard to kill.
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Yup, Beech doesn't respond well to Roundup in hack-and-squirt applications.
 
I second the Tordon on the beech trees. My place use to have scores of those worrisome umbrellas and my Gransfor Bruks axe and bottle of Tordon proved to be a force for those hard to kill beech trees to reckon with. This year they responded faster than ever to my hack and squirt process. I would imagine the dry weather was key.
 

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