Which tool to cut sunflower stalks

[16:1mix]

With winter approaching it is time to cut the stalks of my annual crop of sunflowers that grow voluntarily each year. I had to give careful selection to the cutting tool, my choices were:

1 hand operated pruning saw
2 hacksaw
3 lopping shears
4 chainsaw
5 lawnmower
6 thermonuclear device


Which tool did I pick?

Hell yes....the chainsaw!:greenchainsaw:
What would you have picked?

Of course that was all I needed to get excited about cutting wood again but that'll have to wait for awhile, but hey....I got to HEAR it!

 

[rxe]

FS550 with a circular saw blade?

 

[Al Smith]

Hmm,that's a tough call.In parts of the world they call the proper tool a machete .Here on the other side of the corn belt we called it a corn knife.

Then on the other hand I suppose some tough ones may call for more extreme measures.

I did use a Poulan s-25 once to gnaw down some castor plants.Tough old buzzards.It took a Ferguson TO-20 to extract the roots.

 

[blis]

clearing saw is my choice...

 

[brian660]

090g

 

[daemon2525]

Why couldn't you just push them up in a pile with a bulldozer?
Seems the easiest to me...

 

[Mad Professor]

Brush hog then turn them under with the 2-bottom plow.

 

[rxe]

090g

Yeah, when the 090 just hasn't got enough torque to handle the job, the 090G is the one you turn to.

 

[newguy18]

scythe.yeah i'm the grim stalk cutter.

 

[jhellwig]

I would use the thermo nuclear device and then salt the earth just to make sure they don't come back.

 

[2dogs]

FIRE!

http://terra-torch.com/

 

[2000ssm6]

A...........

ECHO

 

[ELITER]

Cycle bar mower...

 

[Ray Bennett]

I'm torn between finger nail clippers and a 50 gallon drum filled with fertilizer and diesel

 

[spacemule]

I'd use an ar15.

 

[Bill G]

In Illinois they are considered a weed and controlled with Roundup early. They are not noxious so the county will not get after you but the neighbors will.

Bill

 

[16:1mix]

In Illinois they are considered a weed and controlled with Roundup early. They are not noxious so the county will not get after you but the neighbors will.

Bill

LOL!

I planted these in my yard in town for birds to eat off of. Also draws bees but that is no problem, we have a truce! Actually I planted them once and they reseed themselves every year so I could easily see that they could become a weed but they are limited to the space that I allow them, probably no more than 20 are growing any year.

The stalk they grow always amazes me, like a tree on a smaller scale!

Later!

 

[gdn]

anvil loppers

 

[MikeInParadise]

I am very disappointed in this post...

There was a perfect opportunity to justify spend big $$$ on a brush cutter or clearing saw :biggrinbounce2:

 

[Al Smith]

Well,sunflower eating goats could be an option.They could devour the residual and fertilize at the same time.How can you beat a deal like that?

Ya have to watch the male goats though.Those nasty guys pee in their whiskers and butt you in the posterier if your back is turned.Oh no,mean and smelly all in one package,egads.