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Originally Posted by Ekka  LOL, that's not why I do it. I do it coz I'm unsure of this wulkowicz's blokes lurking pattern. |
Jeez, and here I thought I was being clear about encouraging us all thinking outside the box. Look, one author even found a square watermelon!
If you can find a lurkin' pattern, go with it. These days it's much more worrisome to be in someone's stalking pattern.
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Does he read everything or does he just stick to his pet topics etc. So I figure laying the cheese on the track well trodden by him is safest.  |
I named the thread to be provocative--and possibly humorous. (Am I required, BTW, to use the extra "u" in this site.)
I can't quite read everything yet because your site has its idiosyncrasies about informing me of new posts. And I was just now able to open Ekka's video--I'm running on a new Mac and needed a few new plug-ins.
In my other posts, I flagged my intentions and I said I wasn't interested in lecturing. The "square watermelon" contribution showed someone was out there thinking and surfing. What more could I ask for? I was busy writing when it popped in ahead of me. My compliments, jbhigh.
Back to the thread:
I'm offering a new consideration of tree growth that not only de-mistifies the basics, but explains the reasons for the Errera violations--and steps forward into new techniques and tools for the problems that vex us.
Treevet said: It is literally impossible to make a perfect cut sometimes, given the location of woundwood around a dead, still remaining, branch sometimes. Shigo used to say, if you cannot make this cut given the tools you have, it is time to make some tools that will make the cut. To me it is the attitude and feeling (love for trees) that you carry into that tree that makes you perform the best cut for the situation (and carry over to everything you do in that tree) that is as important as literally making that cut. (My emphasis)
I presented the beginnings of my concepts and the new techniques and tools at the ISA Conference in Salt Lake City. Stupidly, I took the last lecture slot thinking there'd be time afterward for discussions. It was my first lecture and I didn't know people had planes to catch and no one would stick around--except for the three guys who still beat cheeks anyway.
I haven't finished the Ekka video, but its struggles and frustrations are understandable. We have not yet given our arborist audience a coordinated and comfortable explanation of tree growth. And indeed it will include the answer to why we don't have square trees.
Thinking of me as pompous, or arrogant, or sly with pet projects does not help in internalizing your new knowledge about what we're discussing. I yam what I yam...
Find the flaws; pick it apart; I said this was a challenge. If I'm successful in expanding the box, future arborists will be climbing into trees with more tools than a chainsaw. (See Shigo below)
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BTW: Wasn't there a biblical comment about the above Ekka plan? "Blessed are the cheese layers for they shall inhairot the earth."
Anyway, I really do mean well, or at least I did. That's for you all to decide.
I also used the Shigo quote below at the conference and showed the new tools.
Bob Wulkowicz
