Not what I like to hear

37chief · Aug 8, 2017

I should be done mowing for now, but with all the rain we got this year the weeds keep growing, and I get new jobs. Yester day I looked at a job, with 5-6 ft Cockle Burrs. Looked to be a fairly good job. As we were done looking at what needed to be done, the owner mentioned out there somewhere is a spring tooth harrow. At least I know it's there. Any of you have the Cockle Burr weeds? Stan

glennster · Aug 8, 2017

we have cockle burr and burdock here too. and beggars lice in the timber. i try and keep up with the cockle burr and burdock spraying before it goes to seed.

ben brown · Aug 8, 2017

(quoted from post at 12:26:27 08/08/17) I should be done mowing for now, but with all the rain we got this year the weeds keep growing, and I get new jobs. Yester day I looked at a job, with 5-6 ft Cockle Burrs. Looked to be a fairly good job. As we were done looking at what needed to be done, the owner mentioned out there somewhere is a spring tooth harrow. At least I know it's there. Any of you have the Cockle Burr weeds? Stan

i tell him he finds tke spring tooth tooth harrow to give me a call..

KEB in GCMS · Aug 8, 2017

We have one field that has them, it has been a chore to try to get rid of them.

David G · Aug 8, 2017

I drop the bucket down and tip back to skim the surface when worried about obstacles.

Philip d · Aug 8, 2017

I'd tell him the same could cause a lot of damage
he'd not likely be willing to pay for aka not my fault
he was warned

wjytexas · Aug 8, 2017

cockle burrs, beggar lice, stickers (grass burrs) goat heads, mesquite, horse cripplers, prickly pear, and others too numerous to mention.

Two Dogs · Aug 8, 2017

If he would not sign a paper stating he would be responsible for any mechanical or tire damage I'd tell him AMF. Let him find his own junk.

dlbuck · Aug 8, 2017

Traveling through Arizona about thirty years ago, stopped to eat at a roadside cafe got one in my green beans.

Russ from MN · Aug 8, 2017

We have a lot of Cockle Burr in N MN, what I can't run over with the mower I spray with 2,4-D. The county does a poor job of mowing the roadside and it spreads from there.

cuby · Aug 8, 2017

he is warning you about the spring tooth,what else is hidden that he forgot about?

ss55 · Aug 8, 2017

Cockle burrs are common in the Midwest, they are fairly easy to control. If you already have more work than you can handle, you should not have much trouble picking and choosing which jobs you want to take on.

leroy in ne · Aug 8, 2017

paint them gold and sell cockle burrs to tourists as porcupine eggs.

20MuleTeam · Aug 8, 2017

Some of the seed will wait 7 years to germinate. Not too hard to control with modern day chemicals, but were tough to control is the old days.

Greg1959 · Aug 8, 2017

37Chief- Once the plant has died and dried, Those Cockle Burrs become barbed projectile missiles that are more than likely able to find the most tender part of your anatomy.

As the front axle of your tractor pushes over the dried plant and moves forward. The plant is then disengaged from the front axle. Thus, the plant becomes a multi-forked trebuchet. Launching hundreds of prickly barb bombs at the most sensitive parts of your body. Eyelids, lips, nose, cheeks and anything else they can find.

37chief · Aug 8, 2017

The owner had me mow them before the seeds formed. My brothers cows would get their tails full of the burs. Stan

Kickinbull · Aug 8, 2017

We have them. Brought here in cattle feed.

morgan in ar · Aug 8, 2017

I don't know if I have ever seen any that tall, but I am always battling them. I think they stink when mowed. Whenever I am driving through the Delta, and I see a field of cotton, it always looks like a field of cockleburrs to me.

Ferd · Aug 8, 2017

When I was a kid in South Dakota somebody was selling them in the Black Hills as porcupine eggs.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 9, 2017

If I were doing a lot of bush hogging jobs in unknown ground think I'd invest in a metal detector to go over the field with before cutting,it'd be a pain but not as much as running over something like a harrow.

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