"Paul S." wrote in message
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Just when you thought you heard everything:

A friend relayed a story to me of a neighbor who decided that he wanted to
get rid of a tree.

He decides, for whatever reason, that it would be best to kill the tree
before cutting it.

His method to kill the tree: mix together FIVE GALLONS of "Roundup", FOUR
GALLONS of "Weed B-Gone", a bag of Scott's granular weed killer, and a
half
gallon of TURPENTINE ("for extra good measure"?) and pour the concoction
into the ground at the base of three tree.

He could have used total vegetation killer. But this brings up the issue of
why anyone would kill a tree with herbicide when they are then faced with a
more serious problem of having a dead tree that will eventually fall and/or
break. Since you have to remove the tree, dead or alive, it seems like a
waste of time and money to kill it first - all other issues aside related to
the indiscriminate use of herbicides.