<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I dearly love my own weed wrench — have used it on multiflora rose, Japanese barberry, althea, Linden viburnum, bush honeysuckle, oriental bittersweet, privet, mahonia, wineberry, and probably others that don’t come to mind right now. It doesn’t work well on callery pear (roots too brittle) or autumn olive over 3/8” diameter at base.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Margaret Chatham<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Jim Drennan <<a href="mailto:jdrennan@heritageconservancy.org" class="">jdrennan@heritageconservancy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">My organization had 3 sizes of weed wrenches and I never found them particularly useful- my volunteers didn't really like using them as well because they tended to snap a lot of the roots off. I like to use a mattock tool as it seems to be more versatile. </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 11:41 PM Muth, Norris (MUTH) <<a href="mailto:MUTH@juniata.edu" class="">MUTH@juniata.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto" class="">Looking for recommendations or comments on the utility of weed wrenches or similar. Wondered if it was a helpful mechanical option for privet, bush honeysuckle, or autumn olive.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Thanks.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">James Drennan</font><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">Land Conservation Manager</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">Heritage Conservancy</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">85 Old Dublin Pike</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">Doylestown, Pa.</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">18901-2489</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">(215)345-7020 ext.134</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, serif" size="4" class="">fax (215)345-4328</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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