[NAFEX] Mulberry emergency surgery

Lon J. Rombough lonrom at hevanet.com
Tue Oct 2 13:51:29 EDT 2007


I've used the carriage bolt method on trees with good success.  If you 
use a stainless steel bolt and nut, and leave some extra length, you 
can unscrew the nut a few turns every year or so and prevent it from 
being engulfed.
-Lon Rombough
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On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:43 AM, rob hamilton wrote:

Your tree might be to small for this, but this brings up the time my 
Loquat tree split in half from the weight of a big ice storm we had 
about 4 years ago.
Some people from this list told be to bore hole through the middle of 
the tree trunk and put a large carriage bolt through it with some 
washers of each end and finish it with a nut to hold the trunk gather. 
I put some tape across the wound to keep the water out and braced the 
branches with a some cargo tie.

I thought this was crazy, but the tree is healing quite nicely. The 
wood is growing around the the bolt, washers and the nut. A few more 
years, it will be covered. I need to make sure to mark it just in case 
I need attack it with a chain saw.

That crotch might always be a little weaker that the rest, but I read 
you can aways take some branches that are growing toward each other and 
twist them together. In time they will become one and may be a natural 
brace.

I have been thinking of this last method as a way of insuring rows of 
bushes from crown borer attacks. If a bushes crown gets girdled the 
bush can be nourished from the neighboring bushes, till it re-roots. 
Just a theory..
 
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