Getting rid of cherry, easy ways?

[secuono]

Have many cherry trees I need to get rid of.

Thinking I need to be girdling the trees to kill them. But what tools do I need? Some are small, others up to a foot wide.

 

[bobm]

Why don't you contact several lumber companies ... some of them just may want to harvest the trees for cherry wood.

 

[secuono]

Pretty sure they are too small and bendy.
Can't give away wood here, down n dry or down and cut to 3ft sections, still nothing.
Nothing but lazy shmucks.....

 

[Nyboy]

I given up on the number of cherry trees I killed. Do yours produce fruit, do they flower ? I know their leaves are bad for horses. Cherry and dogwood are 2 trees I love but cant grow

 

[Ridgerunner]

Those look like wild cherries. I assume you know that the wilted leaves are poisonous to certain grazing animals. The wilting causes the poison to concentrate. I know horses can have problems, other animals possibly can. So be careful if they have leaves. I'm not sure how poisonous limbs or bark are.

If I were girdling them I'd use an ax or maybe a hatchet. Remove a strip of bark all the way around so nutrients can't get to the area above. Another option is to use a chain saw and take the whole thing down. In either case you will probably get some suckers, below the girdling, from the stump, or maybe from roots in the area. I don't think wild cherry is as bad about suckering as many other trees but expect some.

 

[catjac1975]

Cut them to the ground as close as you can. Then cover with multiple layers of black plastic and weigh down with rocks. The plastic must be able to withstand a few winters. And yes they will sucker like crazy otherwise.

 

[secuono]

Some are grown to barbwire, metal posts or woven fencing.
I've taken pics of them flowering, but IDK where they are now.

I probably have many more along the other fences....One by the house, never an issue with the animals, but supposedly alpaca are far more sensitive to poisonous plants. =/

Here's some bad pics of them in general from 2016.

 

[secuono]

Trees were IDed as black cherry in an ID group.

 

[canesisters]

Weedeater
Circle them hitting just enough to knock the bark off
..have killed too many trees to count by clearing the grass away from their base so I can enjoy how pretty they are......

 

[secuono]

Took better pics of them & posted them for free cut n haul.