Anybody cut Mimosa trees?

[KD57]

I cut my first one, an old tree in my Dad's yard he wanted removed. It was the first one I have ever cut, and the last. What is in those things? It gunked up my bar and chain w/ some kind of sticky glue like sap. It was in a fence, so I was glad I used my junk saw to cut it out.
How do I clean the bar and chain? I was thinking maybe kerosene or something like that ? Do you guys that cut sap trees have the same problem?

 

[pdqdl]

I never had that problem.

 

[ozzy42]

Down here we have cuban laurels,ficus,and banyuns..
They have a thick white glue like sap.PITA I tell you.
I clean up with srtaight gas,or gojo w/pumice.

 

[Ed Roland]

I cut my first one, an old tree in my Dad's yard he wanted removed. It was the first one I have ever cut, and the last. What is in those things? It gunked up my bar and chain w/ some kind of sticky glue like sap. It was in a fence, so I was glad I used my junk saw to cut it out.
How do I clean the bar and chain? I was thinking maybe kerosene or something like that ? Do you guys that cut sap trees have the same problem?

sure it wasnt a mulberry?

 

[tree md]

Hmm, I had to remove a Mimosa tree last October that had grown up right next to the foundation of the house and went up to about 20' above the roof. Had to get in it and rope quite a bit of it out. Don't remember too much sap. Maybe the sap was down because it was late in the year.

Anyway, any I use straight gas to remove sap from equipment and my hands and forearms when I have to cut something sappy.

 

[KD57]

It was a Mimosa for sure. I didn't limb it, he drug it off to the burnpile, so I don't know if the sap was only at the base or not. All I did was fell it, then flush cut the stump. Could be sap was down. Anyway, after soaking it in a mixture of gas and diesel all day, the sap came off w/ a little brushing.

 

[TreeTopKid]

I have but there's a variety of Sumac that I've cut many times in Europe that is much worse. I had to get a total haircut because I didn't fancy a gasoline shampoo.

 

[Backwood]

I cut 6 or 7 last year, none had a sap problem. Cut them with the intentions of sawing them into lumber ( something different ). When I put the first one on the bandsaw it run me out of the building, that thing STINKS. Smelled so bad I wouldnt saw the others. Since then I cut two of them and burned them in the heater, but that aint fun either. Still have a few left , not sure where they will end up.

 

[Texas Traveler]

I cut 6 or 7 last year, none had a sap problem. Cut them with the intentions of sawing them into lumber ( something different ). When I put the first one on the bandsaw it run me out of the building, that thing STINKS. Smelled so bad I wouldnt saw the others. Since then I cut two of them and burned them in the heater, but that aint fun either. Still have a few left , not sure where they will end up.

What we have here is nothing but a giant weed, no value at all.
Except some flowers in the spring.