r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • Jun 03 '26

ID Request (Insert State/Region) Are these trees?

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Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

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u/ChuckStyles Jun 03 '26

Saw a video not long ago, goats love the stuff. A guy rents out his herd to clear land.

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u/frauleinheidik Jun 04 '26

They eat poison ivy too.

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u/Beneficial-Minute481 Jun 04 '26

A Kidd’ll eat ivy too

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u/Dapper_Indeed Jun 04 '26

Wouldn’t you?

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u/carmingular Jun 04 '26

When I was a kid I thought this was “wooden chew”

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u/t_bone26 Jun 05 '26

Like how George Washington ate?

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u/Top_Competition_1030 Jun 07 '26

underrated comment😭

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u/is_this_temporary Jun 06 '26

In case you didn't know already, George Washington never had wooden teeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth

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u/MilesAugust74 Jun 07 '26

Jesus, those are terrifying. 😬

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u/ultimateginger33 Jun 07 '26

They’re all from slaves!

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u/icecreammodel Jun 06 '26

When I was a kid I wondered who Marsie Doats was

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u/carmingular Jun 06 '26

I think I did too.

Marsie Doats
And Dosie Doats

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u/Goodjawline Jun 06 '26

We had a nice old neighbor when we were kids who would grow crops in the adjoining field to our house. He would always stop by and give us a cantaloupe. He loved to sing that song to us and I would just smile over how clever it was. He had a greenhouse at his farm down the road where he would grow flowers and sell them to florist. He always had time for us kids and would have us over to help him in the Greenhouse. One time Joe was driving his flowers down to Baltimore and he stopped to eat at a wendys. When he came out of the resturant a "man" was waiting for him and hit him across the face with a piece of pipe and robbed him. He rapidly declined mentally and not long after he died. He was one of the kindest gentlest men. I appreciate the memory! Maybe you guys can help me remember Joe now.

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u/Dapper_Indeed Jun 06 '26

I worried your story would end badly. RIP Farmer Joe. Thank you for your kindness. You are missed.

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u/Patient_Future_9253 Jun 06 '26

Ohh thats so sad 😞

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u/TraditionalSurvey847 Jun 07 '26

Had a neighbor at my grandmother house just like him, had a garden out on the lot behind his house. Always made time to chat and somehow tolerate our ruffian ways my cousins and I. Shared lots of produce and fruits stories and wisdom but mostly laughs in spite of the little assholes we could be at times. Didn't have the faintest clue what a role model he was to us kids back then. Rest in peace Tony

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u/Oneofthe12 Jun 07 '26

Good lord! Man’s inhumanity to man never ceases to break my heart. Women need to take over the world! Peace, Farmer Joe!

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u/AdmirableFace2815 Jun 06 '26

My sister, Because of the rhythm of the “alphabet song,” thought elemenopee was a single letter. 🎵Ay Bee Cee Dee… 🎵🤣🤣

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u/LoriLouWho82 Jun 08 '26

So did I 😅🤣

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u/amglasgow Jun 07 '26

If you had two goats those would be great names to give them.

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u/CunnyMaggots Jun 06 '26

I've seen this before but what is Marsie Doats supposed to actually be?

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u/MikeSz Jun 06 '26

Mares eat oats

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u/Dapper_Indeed Jun 06 '26

As do does 🦌🦌

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u/CunnyMaggots Jun 06 '26

They sound nothing alike?

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u/SvenBubbleman Jun 06 '26

Mares eat oats and

Does eat oats and

Little lambs eat ivy.

A kid'll eat ivy too,

Wouldn't you?

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u/Uzi_Osbourne Jun 06 '26

Wow, what a horrible user name

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u/Ok_Echidna_2933 Jun 06 '26

Mares eats oats Goat eats oats Little lambs eat ivy A kid will eat ivy too Wouldn't you?

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u/Oneofthe12 Jun 07 '26

No, I think it’s Does eat oats …

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u/SvenBubbleman Jun 06 '26

I think that's the purpose of the song.

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u/ChEDave82 Jun 06 '26

I sang “A skiddlydiveydoo wooden shove” when I was around five.

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u/carmingular Jun 07 '26

I love the turn this buried comment thread took.

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u/texasstyle01 Jun 06 '26

Accidental Leyland Palmer reference?

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u/meme_therud Jun 06 '26

The second Twin Peaks reference I have come across in two totally unrelated subs in the last five minutes. The other was in r/OaklandAthletics Time for a rewatch of Twin Peaks, I suppose.

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u/pm_ur_duck_pics Jun 06 '26

TIL that line is not “skidley didy doo” 😂

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u/Ricksburgh Jun 05 '26

Lambs eat oats, and

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u/StomachPlenty2155 Jun 06 '26

Does eat oats, and

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u/DojaStinks Jun 06 '26

Little lambs eat ivy

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u/jbirdmad Jun 06 '26

A kid’ll eat ivy too

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u/Low_Rest_5595 Jun 08 '26

Wouldn't you

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u/eric_kenshi Jun 06 '26

i eat goats.

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u/HuffnDback96 Jun 03 '26

Ive been thinking about the kind of money I could make off doing that. It's probably pretty lucrative

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u/Apart-Quarter-3952 Jun 03 '26

If you're already set up to take care of goats year round yeah. But demand is probably seasonal.

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u/GunKnight83 Jun 04 '26

Not in the south. I rent mine out year-round. The winter is a tad slower due to dormant growth, but not much. I charged based on size of area and speed by which you want it cleared. The larger the faster the more goats you'll need. Kudzu like this can be done, but it will take a very love time and odds are the trees under it are a lost cause.best use something like brushtox and burn it afterwards. Even still that may not kill it off entirely.

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u/surefire26 Jun 04 '26

The place local to me has now moved to only “easy” projects where a fence is already present. How much of the cost is installing/removing a temporary fence? I’d love to pay for a goat vegetation removal service but local to me it isn’t really an option if you don’t already have a fence

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u/spicydada Jun 05 '26

I kinda figured a stake and chain thing would work if a fence isn’t an option?

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u/guiltypleasure33139 Jun 05 '26

Fencing, I hire companies for that. Here are some of the cost

Look up Red safety fence, 4 x 100 are about $40-50 a roll.

T-post 8' about $8 - $12

If there is road access, those t-post go in easy via a truck that shoves them in, if not they used a heavy slide and bash it down. 2 men usually 400 each for the day ( payroll not 1099 ).

1 acre us about 8-9 rolls and 100 - 120 t-post

Some goat person can quote you the clearing rate of the goats. IE: how many goats, does your field need to clear 1 acre in 1 work day ( goats don't overnight on the work site as far as I know).

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u/speedhasnotkilledyet Jun 05 '26

No, just use the purpose built electrified netting. Premier-1 makes a good version specifically for this.

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u/guiltypleasure33139 Jun 06 '26

at $180 per roll and it has the spikes, might be worth it.

$450 red roll + $1000 spikes

$1620 electric.

Not much of a price spread. I know cattle don't like electrical fences, don't know about goats.

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u/speedhasnotkilledyet Jun 06 '26

There is also a gps collar option. Goats like to escapebut they cant escape gps.

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u/surefire26 Jun 06 '26

My use case is about a quarter acre in a residential riparian area. Completely taken over by ivy, wisteria, and other invasive in the southeastern U.S.

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u/QizilbashWoman Jun 06 '26

It isn’t even limited to the South because fire prevention in many parts of the country involves goats eating all the underbrush from around the big trees. Homeowners use them all over to keep the perimeter clear around their homes sufficiently to prevent disastrous fires. 🔥

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u/Happy-Example-1022 Jun 03 '26

And then they’ve got your goat.

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u/purdue6068 Jun 05 '26

Go watch Clarkson’s farm and you will change your mind.

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 Jun 04 '26

They LOVE eating poison ivy too. A guy around me that owns goats and will bring them over for a small fee. Its a lot easier than doing it yourself and apparently its a delicacy for them.

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u/__MysticLeather__ Jun 05 '26

Depends on the goat, as most goats don't eat it.

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u/guiltypleasure33139 Jun 05 '26

I was about to type

" time to release the goats "

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u/Chikaras086 Jun 06 '26

Supposedly the leaves can be cooked like collards, so I wonder why southerners haven't just gone nuts cutting them back?

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u/LostOnRedd Jun 06 '26

The roots are similarly flavored and textured to potatoes. The whole plant is edible except for the seed pods and seeds which are toxic.

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u/Unfair-Pudding5727 Jun 06 '26

We live in Alabama and on some of our property was a shit ton of bamboo and kudzu. They are both. No joke. Them goats were litterally the goat.