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.
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Cobleskill
Treehouser
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
Square peg, round world.
Mulberry, Osage orange, a black locust all are fluorescent under a uv light. I think they share other properties as well.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
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
California Hillbilly
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.
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
Treehouser
Yep, agroforestry.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Burnham
Woods walker
Oh, hell yeah. Nice one.
flushcut
TreeHouser
I don’t know any retired tree peeps that didn’t go do a job here or there.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I doubt I'll ever re-tire. I'm tired enough
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Wrecking two alders that were past their prime days. Solid wood. Oozy. Lil mushrooms on dead sections.
I'd already dead-topped the larger alder.
Had a branch from the big alder grown over by the smaller alder's fork, like a câble. I ended up leaving two branch stubs on the smaller alder to use as a rope cleat for a guy line to the larger at what ended being 8-10' below my feet while I polesawed the top into a stick. Tight drop zone between the house, shed and fence.
Miriam pulled the backleaning top by hand, and I gave it a shove, as we had to clear the rickety fence.
I'd already dead-topped the larger alder.
Had a branch from the big alder grown over by the smaller alder's fork, like a câble. I ended up leaving two branch stubs on the smaller alder to use as a rope cleat for a guy line to the larger at what ended being 8-10' below my feet while I polesawed the top into a stick. Tight drop zone between the house, shed and fence.
Miriam pulled the backleaning top by hand, and I gave it a shove, as we had to clear the rickety fence.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Wrecked another HOA declining alder in the greenbelt, along a road to 2 schools. Cable line along the road on this side.
Pole saw'ed the top from small wood and multiple trunks until I could hinge and manually tip it parlellel to the truck and wire.
Chunked it into the greenbelt. No clean up!
Pole saw'ed the top from small wood and multiple trunks until I could hinge and manually tip it parlellel to the truck and wire.
Chunked it into the greenbelt. No clean up!
