Unregistered how's it going?

chip buck

good dude and u?

dont like the quran thing but love Christ.

chip buck

I was trying to understand your ref to 32 and being hot so some simple 5/9 ths calc and came up with 89.6 which must be hot for u.

Rob Chace

ahhh ive made sense of it now.
but, not to pick on your comment:
"(d)? or(c)?
because if you are hot at 32 d then u have too much clothing on however if you are 89.6 c then thats confortable 100 d for 100 day straight."

but, (d) or (c) as you said is nonsense they are both degrees (unit of measure) one is CALLED celcius/centigrade "C" and one is called farenheight "F", so it would have made sense first time round to have used "C and F"

but that aside yeah i agree with ya.

Doglitsh

I'm doing OK... but I'm not very used to forums or blogs and what not. The reason I'm on this one is because I'v been trying to figure out what in the world is in my back yard!? I don't usually question mother nature... i'v hunted and fished here in Louisiana and out in Texas and Arkansas before and have seen plenty of odd and outgoing things, some too grotesque to explain. But this just itches at my brain.

I was cutting down some old trees and clearing out parts of my new home. When i got to my back yard i have a fence of my neighbors old barbed fence that lines the very end of my property. So i tried to take out a few of the trees that fell from some storms way back. That is when i stumbled across a tree that was snapped off and fallen but still slightly attached. I decided to pull it out... Now down in the region i live now, thorns are a norm. But this tree isn't... its a good 15 maybe 25 years old, has soft bark, kinda like skin. When i tried to pull the remaining tree off the stump, i felt a prick. I looked down to find that this tree had small thorns on the tips of the new sprouts it was growing... I looked further down and saw that on only a small portion of the tree it had bigger thorns, some 1 inch by 1/2 inch. They grow out of bulbs or bump-like growths on the stems and branches and are all over.

Now i'd say it was a bug or some sort of egg inside the tree, but this is just like a regular thorn tree, like it was a mixture of a young oak and some sort of thorn bush... is there any help you can tell me or anyone can tell me? Or is there a forum link that i can ask on for some help? Because I love mother nature but I would rather not have some new type of tree growing thorns and keeping the squirls and birds off my property.

conrod

Welcome...... @Doglitsh I think it is a toothache tree, just google that and look at the images. Not sure if we have them in Australia.

Eric Frei

Here's what I was up to.

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kyRee Elain

hey guys...well it is the middle of summer here in WA and every thing is dying...except funnily enough the trees!!

Submulch drip watering is the go twice a week for about 30mins at sunrise and sunset and I have a Betula penula putting on height growth and and a Prunus sp.(Black Cherry) making new growth in the back yard

.... everything else is going dry and crispy...meh. Oh and would you believe that the Dicksonia is sprouting new fronds?? Amazing.

Rob Chace

Happy Birthday to ME :P

Done it

Have a good night.

Steve C

Hi Eric - Still figuring out how this site works. You asked How things are down here - Fantastic. Just had the thunderstorm promised by the Weather Bureau - three days late! but just great. BTW how do I post a new thread? Not that I have somethin to say now but perhaps later.

surviverguy

It's going fine. I just won an old 056 super off ebay. I'm looking forward to trying it out. I recently took down a 70 year old red oak 24" at breast height. It was about 90 feet tall. I used an old 034 which did the take down but its slow in this "big wood". I want to cut it up for firewood. I think Husqvarna are better large saws but there were benefits to going with the 056 super. The price was lower than the large xp's and the domars. The saw uses the same chain and bars as my other Stihls. I have an old 7000 plus which would be a great firewood saw but the oiler is non-functional. I found myself on this sight reading other peoples opinion about chainsaws.
The weather is cold with big rains so I'm indoors planning my outdoor adventures. I own/manage 55 acres of woodland in Georgia. I have a tree farm. I'm also getting ready to plant 13 nut trees...black and english walnut, pecan and almond trees. Georgia is #1 for pecan trees. SOmething about the hot humid summer.

Rob Chace

now have 3 stihl 044s think im addicted. just need a 460 to fill the "gap" in my pro range stihls. Might start on Huskys next....

koon

Yeah,that sound good,!!still trying to learn the sight.

koon

Trying to learn this web sight , trying to see how other arborist around the world do things and to learn and make my job a little easier!!!!! BUT otherwise been really busy doing take downs and pruning and moss picking on live oaks and afew other tree's !! I been doing tree work since 1988,A lot has changed in tree work,something good, some okay,I just hope people realize trees are important and we need to take care of what we were given!!So how everthing that way?

Apocalypsse

Stressing a bit with a tree I planted next door (long story short, family friend lives theres rent free coz of divorce battle but should have been gone years ago), had a little TPZ up to protect the tree from animals (our cat likes scratching new trees...) and him and his kid. He has gone and removed the TPZ so now if I see it scratched up in any way I think I'll go overkill with a TPZ. This tree needs to stay because we have an aging Gleditsia with an included union.

koon

Those cats can hurt those trees when they us them as scratching board, but do what you must!!!

Paul Goodall

Did you ask him why he removed the TPZ?

Paul Goodall

I forgot to ask too - do you know what variety of Gleditsia you have?

Apocalypsse

My cat scratched up our apple tree pretty bad, almost to the point of ring barking it. Got some chicken wire around it now.

@PaulG - Don't know why he removed it, guess he didn't like having a 2m x 2m bit of lawn fenced off. The tree is still young and vulnerable to things around here, going to protect it as much as I can. I believe we have a Gleditsia triacanthos, one of the varieties from about 20 years ago, no thorns, produces pods but none germinate. Must have had a big failure about 1m up from the young (all I remember growing up is a big hole in the trunk which has decayed out a fair portion of the trunk), it has callused over pretty good, only a small hole left. On a lower limb and on one ~2m above the included union I've found borer holes, but the rest of the canopy is solid, just some deadwood as the tree grows.

nelsthorn

Things are great, cutting loads of firewood and in fact have posts going in the chainsaw thread trying to decide on what I am going to get for a new saw here real soon. Good, interesting stuff.

Paul Goodall

Slowly slowly at the moment. Just waiting for the anti-inflammatories to kick-in so I can get out and do some work.

Mick Leslie

Things are going slowly. Doing homework researching my new saw...

Rob Chace

oooohh, interesting. What saw?

Andrew Pau

LOL, I look forward to gaining psychic abilities just like you as I gradually uncover more and more of the hidden wisdom from the most ancient of trees...

I'm doing pretty well, except my neck and shoulders are starting to feel a bit sore after reading through posts in just one section of this forum back to 2008! I'm learning so much already about how to plan my new garden properly!

Thanks for all the excellent information here.
Andrew

Mick Leslie

I dunno. I'm leaning towards an MS362. It won't be used every day, but when it will be used, it will be worked pretty hard. I want it for track clearing and firewood. The way I see it, I want to keep it for a while so I'm trying to justify the price.

Vince Occorso

Hello to everyone,cold as hell here in PA right now.I have a manual or two to share but can't seem to be able to do to needing "sufficient privileges".What do I need to do to be able to PM others and share what I have?

swenson.luke

I hope to learn your psychic ways and some more about trees on this forum, thanks for that cool trick Eric Frei

runter

hi sorry i havent been chatting how secure is the web site for purchases and do they accept american express

Jeff Darby

may I enquire what do wish to purchase?

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Runter,

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