From our Weed Master...
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The four 55 gallon drums in the neighborhood are full of new herbicide. Locations:
2 backpack sprayers are located at the Fire truck Barn. Please return them when you are finished using.
This year the Forest Service has provided a mixture of Transline (for broadleaf plants such as thistles) and Escort (for houndstongue). Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for Transline and Escort are attached.
I have a few bottles of concentrate that will make 15 gallons if you have a tank on your ATV or side-by-side and want to tackle weeds along roads and trails. It would be great if you could “Adopt a Trail” this summer. Most trails in the area are becoming infested.
Please try and keep an accounting of how much herbicide you applied and where in general you applied it. We have to report our use in September to continue to receive “free” herbicide.
Happy spraying.
Mixing of Concentrate - very important - please read (per the Forest Service):
Safety Information:
Literature on weeds in our neighborhood that we are trying to control:
Bob Jelinek, Weed Warrior
303-807-9601
- 2 at the Fire Truck Barn. There are 2 steel drums. Use the hand pump to fill your vessels. If one drum is empty, move the pump to the other drum.
- Jelinek’s gate at 306 Smith Creek Rd. Drum is black polyethylene open top. Use the bucket to fill your vessel.
- Kusich’s upper gate on Mountain Rd. Drum is black polyethylene open top. Use the bucket to fill your vessel.
2 backpack sprayers are located at the Fire truck Barn. Please return them when you are finished using.
This year the Forest Service has provided a mixture of Transline (for broadleaf plants such as thistles) and Escort (for houndstongue). Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for Transline and Escort are attached.
I have a few bottles of concentrate that will make 15 gallons if you have a tank on your ATV or side-by-side and want to tackle weeds along roads and trails. It would be great if you could “Adopt a Trail” this summer. Most trails in the area are becoming infested.
Please try and keep an accounting of how much herbicide you applied and where in general you applied it. We have to report our use in September to continue to receive “free” herbicide.
Happy spraying.
Mixing of Concentrate - very important - please read (per the Forest Service):
- Do not underfill your tank. For example, if you are making a 3 gallon batch, add 3 gallons of water, do not add anything less.
- Fill your spray tank or backpack approximately 1/2 full.
- Add the concentrate.
- Triple rinse the bottle that the concentrate came in and dump the rinsate into your tank.
- Add the remaining volume of water.
Safety Information:
- Please wear some sort of eye protection and a long sleeve shirt when applying herbicide.
- See links below to Material Safety Data Sheets. These data sheets are also tacked to the wall in the room in the back of the Fire Barn.
Literature on weeds in our neighborhood that we are trying to control:
- See the PDF files on: Thistles in general, Musk thistles, Canada thistles, and Houndstongue, including photos.
- We mostly have houndstongue, musk and Canada thistles in our area, although Bull thistles are starting to pop up. Note that houndstongue, musk thistle, and Bull thistle are biennials and can be killed by simply severing their tap root with a shovel (using a shovel can only be done successfully on the houndstongue in its first year when all you see are the leaves that look like a dog's tongue; if the plant has gone to flower, it's best to bag the plant before the flowers go to their nutlet seeds).
- Canada Thistle is a perennial, the only real effective way to control it is using an herbicide.
Bob Jelinek, Weed Warrior
303-807-9601