On Jul 11, 10:13*am, "
wrote:
How do you kill a pine tree short of cutting it down? (It is not ours
to cut). So far 5 gallons of gas has not helped.

MJ

Girdle it. That is cutting off a strip of bark all the way around the
trunk of the tree. DH has done it to several being careless with the
lawnmower, works every time.