Best way to kill a tree?

[junkmanhunter]

Cutting the bark will do it. Trees get their water to the branches through the bark.

[Porterhouse]

As others have said, be careful....killing a neighbors tree can cause you some problems. I'd go the proper route.

[txnduckhntr]

drill 3/4 inch holes in it as deep as u can at a down ward angle. real deep, try to get into the middle of the tree.
fill it up with the poison of choice, half diesel/used motor oil works well. let that soak in and hit her again, repeat for a while until it doesnt soak up, which depends of tree species.
then, hear comes the trick part.......
jam a limb or dowel rod into the hole snug and break it off flush.
no one is any wiser

[mjdillard22]

fire, chainsaw, backhoe, frontend loader, bull dozer, C-4 - your choice

stomp rot might work

i agree

[xman59]

I have in the last three years found that huricanes... are a very usefull for removing trees, big ones, small ones, green ones, dead ones, tall ones short ones.... every thing but live oaks them are some tuff trees!!!!!!!!!!

might be a hophornbeam aka, toothache tree, hackberry, its a fairly hard wood also...

[boomerball]

Anything copper will do. Copper nails or drill a small hole and insert bare copper wire. Although since the tree is across the line, you would have to tresspass to do it.

if any of the roots cross into his property & are relatively accessable (i.e. not too deep), would the copper work in them? perhaps the deed could be done w/o trespassing.

[PYBUCK]

fire, chainsaw, backhoe, frontend loader, bull dozer, C-4 - your choice

stomp rot might work

Chemical called Remedy. Expensive but it works on all woody plants or trees

[Uncle Saggy]

Can't believe I'm reading this!!!! Do you all still choose between paper and plastic??????
I did not make it to the farm today to get the Spike info, will have tomorrow. There are some really good suggestions on this thread.

[JerryC]

Pour salt on the ground under the dripline. Five or six bags of rock salt should do it.