The Official Work Pictures Thread

[davidwyby]

We have lots of fruitless that get hard pollarded to the same place every year, ugly while pollarded. Get all hollow and rotten and nasty and will never die. I tried to rip some small ones out with 12,000lb winch and they gave me quite the trouble.

 

[Cobleskill]

I discovered that mulberry is related to Osage Orange. That told me a lot. Their roots are both orange. That's what gave me cause to research.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Mulberry, Osage orange, a black locust all are fluorescent under a uv light. I think they share other properties as well.

 

[Cobleskill]

Osage limbs are incredibly strong. A neighboring farm had limbs put in along the road for posts. Cars would go off the road in the winter and hit a small post. Owners would be amazed the damage they did to their car.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Pollarding and coppicing are very old practices. Mulberry is food for animals. Goats will even strip the bark off for you. The long straight limbs could be made into fences, furniture, fire wood, baskets. Just another part of a harvest back when. Old willow furniture another example.
Harvest again in one two two year cycles.
We are too wet here right now to dump the load near the animals. And Katy got rid of the goats. But in years past, I'd dump the load out back, then toss the limbs over the fence a little at a time. Cow, horses, goats and sheep all thought it like candy. As much sap is in those, probably sweet to them.

 

[SeanKroll]

Yep, agroforestry.

 

[cory]

View attachment IMG_4253.mov

 

[cory]

Funny side lean toward house, steepish ground, no rope


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[davidwyby]

@cory

Schweet

 

[flushcut]

Funny side lean toward house, steepish ground, no rope


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So you retire and post more videos than when you were working?

 

[davidwyby]

Urlocallumberjill

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[Burnham]

Oh, hell yeah. Nice one.

 

[cory]

@flushcut kinda sorta!

 

[BIGTWIG]

@cory
Did you unretire?

 

[davidwyby]

I have known multiple guys who were good at their craft who retired and came back multiple times...that's what you get for being skilled.

 

[flushcut]

I don’t know any retired tree peeps that didn’t go do a job here or there.

 

[cory]

@BIGTWIG

Nope. Still a huge tree and treework nerd though. I have a lot of old pics n vids that I'll probably post some of to clog the 'net.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I doubt I'll ever re-tire. I'm tired enough