What to do with Willow.

[lxskllr]

Some kind of fungus?

 

[davidwyby]

No idee. The crotch looks questionable and the sap i’d guess borer or something?

 

[davidwyby]

The man lift blew a hose again so I had to postpone the tree I was going to do today…so I used the Telehandler to do my own. Wifey swung me around. I’m no tree trimmer…
Little one next to it has these scratches or cracks in the bark. Bunch of cats around the neighborhood…?



Decisions, decisions… I cut it off above the limb on the left…I bet it breaks off some day. At least now I can reach all of it from my roof with the pole saw and nothing is hanging over the neighbors.

 

[davidwyby]

thing explodes with growth and starts dropping limbs. Gave it another hack.

Couldn’t make up it’s mind

 

[flushcut]

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The only acceptable way to deal with willer.

 

[Kaveman]

Ground level trim...

 

[Dave Shepard]

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The only acceptable way to deal with willer.

It will still sprout from the ashes.

 

[davidwyby]

Speaking of which. A customer friend found a good stump removal process. Big centerless tractor rim around the stump, build a fire in it. Stump burns down into the ground.

 

[Nutball]

At least it does in the desert. It's hit and miss around here using fire to burn a stump.

 

[Kaveman]

From what I've already seen in the big hills here, that would be a great way to get a forest fire named after you.

 

[flushcut]

At least it does in the desert. It's hit and miss around here using fire to burn a stump.

You just need a bigger fire.

 

[Nutball]

From what I've already seen in the big hills here, that would be a great way to get a forest fire named after you.

The Kaveman fire has a certain ring to it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nope

 

[davidwyby]

 

[davidwyby]

At least it does in the desert. It's hit and miss around here using fire to burn a stump.

I was surprised how well it worked on green stumps. If nothing else it will kill the stump so it doesn’t regrow. Euc stumps from two years ago are big thick 15’ bushtrees.

 

[SeanKroll]

The stump-bone is connected to the root-bone.

Long smoldering, underground fires could be a problem, especially if some or all the roots are dead/ dying.

 

[flushcut]

Several decades ago the peat bog near me caught fire and smoldered, I think, three years until a heavy snow winter smothered it.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Coal seams are the real danger. Centralia,xl PA has been burning for decades.

 

[Cobleskill]

The fires in Canada last year kept burning underground right through the winter. Popped back up to the surface in the summer. The air and sky here was not as bad from the Canadian fires this past summer as it was in 23. Seemed like it was hazy all summer long.