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["breezyhill" <breezyhill@myway.com>]

OK, but can anyone offer some help for this poor tree with a hole and 
splintered wood where itused to have a 5" diameter branch?




 --- On Tue 09/07, breezyhill < breezyhill@myway.com > wrote:
From: breezyhill [mailto: breezyhill@myway.com]
To: NAFEX@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tue,  7 Sep 2004 21:40:49 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [NAFEX] Damaged trees

<br><br><br><br>My fruit trees are sited next to the hay field.  The neighbor 
puts up hay on a share basis, and forever there has been no problem.  Until 
today.  He ran into one of the apple trees and tore off a branch of about 5" 
diameter, ripping it OUT of the mother branch at the junction.  The wood is 
splintered three inches or more into the main branch--I pulled chunks out and 
can stick my finger in there.  I pruned it off as best I could, but it is so 
splintered and the bark around it is so loose I don't know how to help it 
heal.  He skipped a tree, and then skinned a pear tree, knocking off a chunk 
of bark about 1/3 of it's diameter, and abourt 5" tall.  Young tree.  What's 
the best way to "fix" it?  Have put up a temporary fence to warn him off the 
trees when he returns to ted and bale.  
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