My Random Tree Logs

[PinkFloydEffect]

This is where I'll be keeping my most random tree logs from my walks and such.

Starting with this attachment, who votes burl? If it IS a burl, worth any good $?

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Grafted Tree

Found a grafted tree on a walk, appears to be natural without using rods or cables. See attachments:

 

[Woodcutteranon]

The grafted tree is interesting...it takes me back to HS biology/ecology. Doesn't that have something to do with a trees "apical dominance?" (sp?) I can't remember the concept. I slept my way thru that class.

Here's a thought from the band..."there's too many home fires burning and not enough trees.":rocker:

Safe cutting.

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Animal Hole

The grafted tree is interesting...it takes me back to HS biology/ecology. Doesn't that have something to do with a trees "apical dominance?" (sp?) I can't remember the concept. I slept my way thru that class.

Here's a thought from the band..."there's too many home fires burning and not enough trees.":rocker:

Safe cutting.

Who knows I was too lit, when I got tired of sleeping in school I dropped out.
Someone might have done this a long time ago and it just stuck.

Here's another odd tree I found, has a hole perfect for an animal to live in and nice moss coverage. See attachment:

 

[banshee67]

id like to curl up in there and take a nap

 

[banshee67]

those things are weird
i got one down the road from me on a huge oak , the tumor is like 4 times the size of that one, crazy lookin

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Root Flares

id like to curl up in there and take a nap

^Your telling me.^

those things are weird
i got one down the road from me on a huge oak , the tumor is like 4 times the size of that one, crazy lookin

^I believe its a burl, that can be sold to instrument companies for its unique grain I guess.^


I attached a tree I found that has a root flare that is grown around a rock.
Also a much larger Oak tree in my area that has eaten this granite slab.

 

[banshee67]

when they talk about the world ending in 2012, they thought itd be natural disaster, not giant oak trees swallowing us alive!:greenchainsaw:

 

[ROOTSXROCKS]

Those are some really neat pictures. Since milling my first Log I can't help myself but to look at trees for there inner beauty. as a tree hugger that does cause a little inner conflict. That burl is a bit small still,for much more than a small bowl or decorative medallions.
there is one similar to it in a nearby state park that is like 3 feet round, I would dearly love to acquire it, Im sure im not the only one that has noticed it.
to bad that removing it opens the tree to infection.

The grafted tree its really cool, I would not be so friendly to it tho, Id cut it up into some really pretty stuff.

I have seen a tree like that played with it in a PS contest for fun

It was a cool place to live till they opened the strip club next door

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Moss Coverage

when they talk about the world ending in 2012, they thought itd be natural disaster, not giant oak trees swallowing us alive!:greenchainsaw:

Haha I don't think so!

Those are some really neat pictures. Since milling my first Log I can't help myself but to look at trees for there inner beauty. as a tree hugger that does cause a little inner conflict. That burl is a bit small still,for much more than a small bowl or decorative medallions.
there is one similar to it in a nearby state park that is like 3 feet round, I would dearly love to acquire it, Im sure im not the only one that has noticed it.
to bad that removing it opens the tree to infection.

The grafted tree its really cool, I would not be so friendly to it tho, Id cut it up into some really pretty stuff.

Those are some funny pictures lol. I do have a problem with a fine line between saving every single tree I can and harvesting whats really worth it.

I will make a travel back to my old stomping grounds and take a photo of a much larger burl on a different tree that I could not identify at my age.

I would rather leave the grafted tree only because its an awesome fishing spot I visit regularly and now MY tree. I have a mental list of trees I visit when I'm walking in their direction, trees of great age, uniqueness or strain.


I've attached more pictures from previous walks. The first one is a moss covered beaver fallen tree. From about mid 2008.
The rest are of a tree in NH on the same property as the one with the hole in its flare above in this thread^ This one is covered in moss for some reason, and I'm not talking about the North side alone:

 

[catman963]

Interesting pictures man!

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Interesting pictures man!

Thanks, I have so many pictures I go on longgg walks

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Old Apple Tree

So this is an old apple tree of some sort I found locally on someones property while walking down the road and snuck up and took some pictures.
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/A.jpg

Appears to have successfully overcome severe heart rot?
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/B.jpg
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/C.jpg

There was a large limb removed many many moons ago here:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/D.png

Limb wound shows heart rot that leads into a partial trunk heart rot:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/E.jpg

Look closely though at the holes?? Can anyone diagnose?
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/F.png

Another view of removed limb wound:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/G.jpg

 

[NCTREE]

Those holes in the apple tree are from sap suckers. sap sucker commonly attack apple and maple trees. The wounds produce sap which inturn brings insects to feed on the sap. the sap suckers return to feed on the insects. Sap suckers rarely kill the tree unless it becomes a severe case in which insects take over or the sap sucker damage girdles the tree.

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

Pine Tree Graft

Those holes in the apple tree are from sap suckers. sap sucker commonly attack apple and maple trees. The wounds produce sap which inturn brings insects to feed on the sap. the sap suckers return to feed on the insects. Sap suckers rarely kill the tree unless it becomes a severe case in which insects take over or the sap sucker damage girdles the tree.

Hey NCTREE thanks for that info!

Heres a Pine tree that has a graft at the crotch, I think its a blue spruce if anyone can help with that:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/1A.jpg

Heres the grafted area:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/2B.jpg

I do not know if its a live or dead graft:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af101/NateTeebo/Trees/3C.jpg

 

[ROOTSXROCKS]

Those holes in the apple tree are from sap suckers. sap sucker commonly attack apple and maple trees. The wounds produce sap which inturn brings insects to feed on the sap. the sap suckers return to feed on the insects. Sap suckers rarely kill the tree unless it becomes a severe case in which insects take over or the sap sucker damage girdles the tree.

Thank you I have a Jap plum with the same effect. I didn't know all the details either.

now back to that grafted tree, it reminds me of a record of some relationships Ive seen were they keep trying to stay together but regardless drift apart.

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

now back to that grafted tree, it reminds me of a record of some relationships Ive seen were they keep trying to stay together but regardless drift apart.

Looks like its strong you can see secondary twigging off the grafted branch coming out of the tree that were cut, it looks deep. Blue spruce?

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Thanks, I have so many pictures I go on longgg walks

You would enjoy walking over here too.

The forest has some interesting trees.

Also, a few hours south of here, near where we used to live in southern Oregon, is a man who does Arborsculpture, the tree trunk art stuff.

 

[NCTREE]

You would enjoy walking over here too.

The forest has some interesting trees.

Also, a few hours south of here, near where we used to live in southern Oregon, is a man who does Arborsculpture, the tree trunk art stuff.

Hey Vaden

Have you ever climbed a giant redwood? That is one of my goals in life. I would love to climb one some day. Can you climb these trees or is their laws or restrictions?

 

[PinkFloydEffect]

You would enjoy walking over here too.

The forest has some interesting trees.

Also, a few hours south of here, near where we used to live in southern Oregon, is a man who does Arborsculpture, the tree trunk art stuff.

Oh I bet, sounds like the guys making todent poles.

Hey Vaden

Have you ever climbed a giant redwood? That is one of my goals in life. I would love to climb one some day. Can you climb these trees or is their laws or restrictions?

Good question, please let us know Vaden!