Idiot stick smashed in the face chain sawing giant bamboo

Ha Ed, worse collateral damage is aching old bones. Have been courting the Advil bottle for this project.
Cursed w/'can't sit still' and Aspergers drive LOL.

Funny topic the kudzu. Bunch a southern folks get around and start mouthing it.
Laughing about it's way of introduction and crying about the damage it causes.
Nothing holds a candle to it, can cover entire forest and turn it into rotten trees.
What else does that ? Wonder if timber insurance has a clause to protect themselves from the damage.

It does not do Florida much, guess the sandy soil keeps it in check. Loves our red clay though.
Gonna design an 'International Kudzu Harvester' one day. Don't laugh. You want fat cows ?
I hunt that 5 acre patch figuring the kudzu protein goes to the antlers.
Problem is getting in there without being heard and then getting a shot.

If I am not mistaken, Asians have a culinary interest in the goiters. Big as basketballs, like a giant kohlrabi.
Takes a backhoe to harvest them.

Heck James,just another "Man scar" to brag about! I bet that did put stars in your head for a bit-glad all is ok.............

Ouch, been there done that only not with bamboo. Lucky it wasn't worse. Gotta watch that bamboo it's sneaky.

I was thinking he got a bam-boo-boo

Yes James, and some. Wiser for it though.

Standard procedure for shrubs and trees like invasive privet Larry.

Kudzu and bamboo have so many auxiliary tubers and growing points along a their long underground root system.
It is not likely the poison will travel far enough up the roots to reach all the viable nodes and tubers.

The only way I have killed bamboo was with salt, and that was on a grove that was going to have road gravel put over it.
Salt is a polluter in itself, would never use it on plantable ground.
Plowing, burning, roundup applications for 10 years straight every year, painting cut canes with brush killer(2-4-D) was for nought.

Just learned this stunt, reading up on trimming and grooming bamboo. Cut the poles off about two feet high and make the cut just below the node.
That way the cane will fill with rain water and slowly drown the root system.
To maintain a healthy grove, you cut the bamboo off at ground level just above the node so it will not hold water.

Definitely had my share of those events, even have a few scars to prove it. Fortunately my pretty face didn't retain any obviously visible scars .