<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:courier new, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> I have been working on eliminating an extensive infestation of multiflora rose on our steep sloped woodlot and the bottomland/swamp at its bottom to make essentially a food forest of blueberries and pawpaws with a mixture of other natives such as American holly and Winterberry holly. To this point I have cut literally thousands of stems using an Ego pole chainsaw for larger stems and a similar Stihl with a table saw-like blade on the end for the smaller stems. I need suggestions for herbicide daubers to use on the cut stems when I repeat the process in the fall. I ordered one from Amazon that is only about 3 feet long when I need one at least 5 feet long due to poor accessibility to the multiflora stems.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> A complication I am having is that we lost a lot of trees due to Emerald Ash Borer which have fallen across some of the multiflora rose clusters. If we get enough dry weather this will be solved with a chainsaw to break up the extensive trunks for better access.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> The good news with this is that apparently Spicebush appears to be fighting the infestation of multiflora rose and Oriental Bittersweet.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> I am quickly becoming a fan of battery powered tools for chainsaws and similar.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Richard Gardner</div></div></body></html>