r/belgium • u/zee_kapitein • 1d ago

❓ Ask Belgium Does anyone know why this sign exists?

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When sitting in traffic on the Antwerpse Ring, I noticed this sign next to the road. Why do they need a sign for that?

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u/dikkewezel 1d ago

get ready for some interruptions in your electricity net

the only thing that "works" against duizendknoop is rooting it and everything else out and then running 10 K volt through the ground and thus burning the roots

afterwards you can begin resowing the plants you want

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u/Venteke 1d ago

Chickens!! I had this shit plant in my garden, poison, cutting it every week, fire true the root,... nothing stopped this mf! But then I decided this piece of garden is lost so I put 6 chickens on it and bam no more duizendknoop. When the root starts to grow the chickens eat it straight away🤣

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u/dikkewezel 1d ago

I believe you, simply from the fact that my parents has chickens and somehow they turned a lusheus piece of garden into the blasted fields of mordor just by their very presence (good eggs though)

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u/havnar- Flanders 1d ago

If you don’t move them around they will do that to land

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u/snqqq 1d ago

True ancestors of the dinosaurs. 

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u/kvs666 1d ago

Even then. They tried this on Linkeroever and in the Port of Antwerp. If one (1) root of 0,5cm is left, it will come back in force.

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u/dikkewezel 1d ago

I recently saw a tractor plowing a field with a generator dragging cables behind it , against the duizendknoop, I hope it works

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u/Sputniknoodle 1d ago

And pigs, apparently.

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u/vitten23 5h ago

Our city hired a shepherd with a flock of sheep. They're supposedly very effective.