I was given these 2 wooden carvings. Both of them have some damage but are still very cool. One is just the bottom half but one has the carving of a man on top. What might they be? And what are they worth? I’m in Ontario, Canada but I believe they were salvaged from a hotel out west.
We have a lot of mature and small buckthorn around our farm. The biggest are full height but there’s a lot of them that are about 4”. I read about a tool called a Brush Grubber, found one at Princess Auto, and brought it home.
We’ve been pulling the buckthorn up with our 4x4, but it works fine with an ATV or small tractor. The clamps have heavy, rounded teeth that are spring loaded. You clamp them on the trunk and they clamp tighter as it gets pulled.
We tried the "chop it down and cover it" method which probably works if we had an acre of tarp and a year. We had also just cut a few close to the soil, and lost track of the trunks, and we'd trip over them. In the spring (2nd photo) you can see they were putting out 100 suckers.
In the second photo the buckthorn trunk was about 7-8”. We chopped the trunk down enough to about 4” to clamp on the Grubber. We used an old tire to give it some height.
Photo 1 - pulled out all the buckthorn roots. Some of them were 4 feet long.
Tips:
we waited until after a rain. Trimmed down a few of the trunks to about 4ft
We used an old tire in some tight spots - so you aren’t just pulling across the ground, you’re pulling up
Use an ATV, 4x4, tractor or a truck or possibly a car. Get a good chain. Use safety glasses and Stand clear in case your chain snaps.
We used a long saws all blade to cut some roots about 3ft from some really stubborn big stumps
My husband can clamp on the Brush Grubber to smaller trunks and pull them out by hand BUT I am going to build a lever this week and try to see if I can do it myself.