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Re: [nafex] Dead wood on apple tree



At 02:19 PM 07/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I was just reading an old book on concrete, and it showed a tree with a big
>dead area, they chiseled it down to sound wood and filled in the hollow with
>concrete.  It was a very neat job, and probably helped support the tree, but
>it would be best to find out if that is actually recommended.  There was
>another photo of a tree that had been done that way, and the bark had grown
>over most of the repair, they said eventually it would entirely fill in.

There's a big old American beech on one of the main streets here in Hoptown 
that has a large cavity, about 10-15 feet up the trunk, that has been 
filled in with concrete - been there longer than I've been living here; 
tree appears to be doing just fine.

Ken Asmus has a photo of the MI champion bur oak in his 1999 OIKOS Tree 
Crops catalog; the tree has a large cavity extending up from ground level - 
at some point in time, someone filled it in with cinderblocks (it doesn't 
look as though they used any mortar), and over time, the tree is slowly 
engulfing them - as Ken says, "a good chainsaw deterrent"!


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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