How do you manage overgrowth near wood piles? Tips and tricks.

[Dmitry]

Every summer I buttle grass and shrubs at my wood piles place. How do you, guys, manage this. Do you spray it with some chemicals or else? Just curious about ways to handle it.

 

[Prof]

I just use a weed wacker--I try to avoid chemicals around my home. I eat a lot of mushrooms and other wild edibles, so I try to keep things as clean as I can.

 

[Highbeam]

I would have processed, stacked, and consolidated all of your little piles into one or two piles so that you could mow around it. Then weed whack what can’t be mowed.

You’ve got a mess there with a jungle growing all around it.

 

[mrd1995]

Keep piles condensed and tidy if possible and weed eat every so often. Use a brush axe or weedeater to clean up any encroaching limbs.

 

[EbS-P]

Weed eat with a carbide tipped saw blade

 

[patrickk222]

i just use a weed eater

 

[Rob_Red]

Nice neat piles and a heavy duty brush cutter. No herbicide chemicals on site. I would venture to guess restacking and covering would help your seasoning efforts as well


looks like you have a beautiful space by the way.

 

[vatmark]

We cleared out brush and weeds and put down mulch. I will occasionally go around and spray individual weeds with weed killer. We have to keep the area cleaned up to avoid a visit from the "Karen" committee.

 

[brenndatomu]

Goats...

 

[xman23]

I mow a few spots. Twice a year. But what works the best is the bark mulch I get from the log mill. It lasts a long time

 

[Woodsplitter67]

Mine is up off the ground and now has DGA around it and under it. Before I did this work I had to string trim every so often. Is always off the ground and I dont cut into rounds until Im ready to process

 

[armanidog]

You might as well wait for a good freeze to kill all those vines and brush. Then you may be able to see what you got.
It looks like you have a lot of scrap pieces lying around. Maybe have a campfire later this fall using all the scraps and cook something on it.
Then while it's cool weather do some stacking and make some lanes for the mover to get through.

 

[firefighterjake]

Occasionally use a weedbeater . . . but mostly the bits of bark that all off tend to keep the weeds down.