Cleanin' Up the L 9-5-20

[TubeDude]

Thanks, Pat!  You are a blessing to society!

I have an idea.  How about a grappling hook on a cable attached to the trailer hitch of a truck?  I'm thinking that throwing it in the water past the pesky phragmites will snare them by the roots when pulled back up the ramp by a truck.  That will pull them up by the roots with leaving few remaining roots to grow back. Then they can be chopped up on the above water part of the ramp and hauled off without fighting them in the water.  You've battled these ferocious phragmites, so you might have some good insight into a grappling hook design.  I can fabricate one (or more) for you as my contribution to the fine folks here making the lake better.

Ronald   

Probably work.  But I found that the mud and roots are not very deep.  Merely running a shovel blade between the mud and roots and the concrete ramp was enough to loosen them...and then they could be pulled out by hand.  I just ran out of "freeboard" on my low boots...and stamina in my old body.  As soon as the water drops another foot it should be easier to clear a more or less permanent path through the phrags.

My first idea was to try to get someone with a small Bobcat front end loader down there.  Ten minutes and it would be done.  The challenge would be to get it down there on the existing moonscape roads.