Briar patch removal ideaa

Cut a little section of timber out now the jiggers are over taking the area any ideas cheap ideas to get rid of them was thinking a controlled burn maybe ? Very grateful to be a member on this site with all the info an knowledge I get from you guys thank you

Goats, if anyone you know has them. Goats will make quick work of a briar patch. Stake and move or fence

Burn rotation will keep it in check. Those briars aren't a bad thing unless they are too thick for you to enjoy your property.
The spring after your burn you can get in there and spray the problem areas with herbicide

What he said!

Yeah its gna be thick as thieves after spring if I don't do anything ....any good herbicides ya guys use know of?

Crossbow works on them. If you have a tractor supply they also sell a generic version I think is called big and tough. Eric

I put a mulching blade on my weed whacker and cleared a food plot with it. after doing that twice, they did not come back.

If you have livestock feed hay in the briar patch and they will help clear it. Eric

I once heard that if a person can figure out where the growing point is of the Brier it makes it easier to treat with an herbicide. But I could never really figure out what that meant.

I have eradicated Blackberry patches where the canes were 8ft tall.
It ain't easy but its a controlled way that won't kill everything in the area so that once the blackberries are gone then something else will take over.
I cut the canes just above ground level with a hand clipper and treat the stump with glyphosate at a 20-25% mix rate.
I do this in July, August or Sept.

"Briars"? you mean blackberries?
Crossbow, about the only thing that works on blackberries in my experience. Hit shortly after they start leafing out. Then once again when you see what you missed. Then probably once again the following spring for any stragglers.

I have a lot of Briars that aren't blackberries even though blackberries could be considered Briars

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I guess I don't know what briars are then.

Around here it would be raspberries, multiflora roses, and some kind of a dang tree like shrub with what looks like needle sharp rose thorns. (not them long thorns like on a hawthorn or locust tree)

Greenbrier or smilac has a tuber like a potato. If you don’t remove it completely it will come back. Goats do a great job on controlling smilac.

I mow them with shredder, drop it on the ground.

Also found out that I can get the majority of berry vines with the teeth on the grapple, then dump them on a burn pile

Down here briars = green briar or bamboo briar
Then you have berry vines, multiflora rose and other vines with thorns

I’m guessing you’re not a rabbit hunter?

Is it Rosa laevigata (Cherokee Rose)?

If so, those are horrible. It grows in places around here. It creates impenetrable bushes if left long enough. You can’t walk through them, you simply can’t. The thorns will shred you and only one step below razor wire. If you use equipment to chop it down, the thick, woody stems left behind can puncture tires. When wildlife have a trail through it, you can hammer them with a bodygrip because the trail exit will look like a round hole.

I didn’t realize they were invasive until I just looked them up, but it definitely makes sense that it would be. Why someone would introduce that anywhere is something I’ll never understand.

crossbow and tordon for thicker trees

I plan to get a brush saw and to clean out a patch behind my house soon

https://www.ruralking.com/crossbow-herbicide-2-5-gal

https://www.ruralking.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=tordon

I used round up before. BUT you do know blackberry browse has more nutrients in them than any plant a deer can forage on. You got briars you got deer.

They sound the same but the pictures I see on line look different. You're right about not walking through them at least not without heavy TOUGH clothing.

John c yeah that's what I'm worried about I go through cut them an they just grow back but even thicker

LOL, My first thoughts too!

Tordon will kill near anything, railroad companies use it on the side of the tracks to keep brush down. Velpar is another great option on briar and bramble, but get it down on the ground before spring sap really starts to get flowing. I used to farm blueberries and briars are a real problem, velpar got em.

Triclopyr and metsulfuron methyl herbicides work really well on blackberry. Green briar leaves have a high surface tension and makes it hard to get the chemical to stick but with a little extra surfactant you will likely get good results. Best advice for herbicides is to positively identify exactly what plant you’re trying to kill and follow the label for treatment.

I like the suggestions on this thread to get a goat. I'd like to get a goat, but I'm wondering if I have to worry about critters like coyotes harming the goat. Additionally, if I anchor the goat I wonder if I have to worry about the goat getting entangled & injured. Thoughts?

Goats don't like to be alone, and yes coyote like em. A small fenced lot with a few goats will get cleared pretty fast, then you move them, electric fence helps hold the goats in and critters out but don't be surprised when you need to get new goats......

I have cleared large expanses of himalaya blackberries up to 12 feet tall to get fields ready to plant. Being certified organic herbicides aren't an option.

What I do is knock them down with a bobcat, pile them up somewhere to burn later, then run over the field several times over with a subsoiler (chisel) to about 17-18" deep. I run a grid about 1 foot apart going both directions to loosen up crowns and tap roots. As anybody that has dealt with himalayas knows, even just a small section of root will have them coming back. After subsoiling I deep plow then cultivate for the whole summer making sure any stragglers are disrupted.

There will always be some stragglers coming back in subsequent years but by and large it gets the job done. Where I have planted blueberries in an old blackberry field I plan on deep digging out any that come up in the rows in subsequent years. I have a steel handled tree planting shovel for that.

Briars are your friend are great cover and browse for deer

To a point. I mean some is good, but too much can sure be a nuisance.

I see the Briars are already starting to leaf out. I haven't decided yet how to kill some of the ones this year that I want to. Perhaps the most annoying ones are what's along the edge of my yard.