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Diego de la Vega wrote:
Does anyone know how bad potassium nitrate is? Potassium and nitrogen are naturally occurring elements and both are necessary for plant and human life. I am just not sure what to do and do not want there to be any long term effects.
Diego
Rufus Laggren wrote:> driveway
How deep/wide? The dozer might not affect much more area than it takes to get in and get out - just about the right width for a drive. It will also (potentially) leave you with a completed driveway, especially if you arrange to have any gravel or other needed enhancements delivered head of time. I've never heard of trees dying off next to a new driveway; then there's the future material delivery trucks and concrete trucks and such. IOW, the dozer's weight may not really impact things that much considering...
However, if you're really sure about the two months to chemically decompose, why that's practically instantaneous in the great scheme of things! But that time line sounds a bit optimistic... How did you arrive at the two months figure?
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Rich Pasto wrote:dude if you are cutting a driveway an operator can do it without going more than a few feet off the road. Ive cut many roads through the woods from New york to hawaii without a 'large area of effect'.
the lowest impact method is to fell the trees but leave a high enough stump to wrap a chain or rigging around. Then pull that sucker out with a D6 dozer.
the shoulder of your driveway will recover quickly if you grade it out and seed it. maybe some nice clover, wildflowers and yarrows
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Susan said, " I drilled 1 inch holes thru the top of the stumps and poured inn Epsom salts into the holes poured a little water in then added more and a bit more water then covered them until the next spring. They didn't look dead until I saw pieces of the bark falling away and now after a year or so big chunks are coming off and the roots that were sticking out above ground are also rotting/composting away.
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Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula KNO ₃. It is an ionic salt of potassium ions K⁺ and nitrate ions NO₃⁻, and is therefore an alkali metal nitrate. It occurs in nature as a mineral, niter. It is a source of nitrogen, and nitrogen was named after niter.
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Magnesium sulfate or magnesium sulphate is a chemical compound, a salt with the formula MgSO₄, consisting of magnesium cations Mg²⁺ and sulfate anions SO2−4
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Phil Swindler wrote:In my personal opinion, there is no personal problem that can't be handled with proper application of high explosives.
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Phil Swindler wrote:In my personal opinion, there is no personal problem that can't be handled with proper application of high explosives.
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Jonathan 'yukkuri' Kame wrote:Cut a big hole in the center with chainsaw/drill/chisels/fire, whatever. Then use it as your composting toilet for a week. Innoculate with fungi & bacteria. Then build a big compost pile or hugel on top and plant into it.
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Diego de la Vega wrote:Cutting them down myself and leaving stumps:
pros:
-No damage to surrounding tree roots from heavy equipment (this creates more standing dead trees which were once valuable live trees)
-less work if you are patient, you just let the oxidizer (potassium nitrate) do it for you.
-stump rots and leaves a smallish sink hole you can then fill in
-cheap as far as cost
-small area of effect
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