Plant eradication method
OwnerChristopher N. MacDonaldinventor
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Abstract
A method of eradicating plants on an inaccessible terrain by selecting hollow balls formed by a frangible membrane, filling such balls with respective charges of herbicide fluid of the type to which such plants are susceptible to provide a supply of such charged balls. Selecting a repeater ball firing gun of the type incorporating a mechanism having sufficient propulsion to transmit a certain minimum muzzle velocity to such balls in a repetitive manner, transporting such gun by helicopter to hover over such terrain. Shooting a quantity of such balls at each plant from a range sufficiently close to cause the skins of such balls to be ruptured upon impact to thereby splash herbicide on the respective plants.
Claims15
A method for the precision application of measured amounts of foliar-acting herbicide to marijuana plants, including the following steps:
- selecting an herbicide of the type to which such marijuana plants are susceptible;
- selecting a supply of hollow balls formed by frangible skins;
- filling said balls with predetermined charges of such herbicide to form charged balls;
- selecting a repeating powered gun for shooting said balls from said supply, said gun being of the type having a propulsion mechanism adapted to repetitively deliver a selected propulsion force to said charged balls sufficient to generate a muzzle velocity of at least about 380 feet per second;
- said balls being selected with skins having sufficient strength to, when charged with said charges of herbicide, upon application of said selected propulsion force, resist breaking but to, upon striking the stems of such plants with a predetermined velocity, burst;
- transporting said gun and supply of charged balls to the proximity of said plants;
- aiming said gun sequentially at different ones of said plants from a selected distance sufficient to cause said balls to, when fired from said gun, be propelled along a projectile path to the respective targeted plants to impact said stems with said predetermined velocity;
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- firing a selected portion of said supply of balls at each plant to be eradicated causing said balls to penetrate at least some of the respective foliage of the targeted plants striking such stems thereof to burst said skins causing said herbicide to splash on said stems and the underside of the leaves thereof to enhance foliar absorption of such herbicide.
A method of precisely applying measured amounts of herbicide to marijuana plants having foliage thereon, including the following steps:
- selecting a foliar-acting herbicide to which said marijuana plants are susceptible;
- selecting hollow balls constructed of skin frangible at a predetermined bursting force and formed of a predetermined outside diameter;
- charging said balls with measured charges of said herbicide to provide charged balls each having a predetermined weight;
- selecting a gun for shooting said charged balls at a predetermined muzzle velocity;
- transporting said gun and charged balls to the proximity of such plants to be treated;
- mounting said gun in a helicopter to hover over said plants at a predetermined distance therefrom;
- aiming said gun sequentially at targeted plants;
- firing a selected number of charged balls at said plants;
- said skin of said balls being of material selected with sufficient strength to withstand the forces of said muzzle velocity and said predetermined distance being selected to cause said balls to, when fired from said predetermined distance at said predetermined muzzle velocity, penetrate at least some of such foliage and impact on the stems thereof with sufficient velocity to apply said predetermined bursting force to the respective skins thereof to cause the respective ball skins to burst and splash at least part of said measured quantities of said selected herbicide on the bottom side of said foliage to enhance systemic absorption of said charges of herbicide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.