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I was back at where I took the first year of classes to become a utility arborist (C.U.A.). Trees that I had climbed years ago (2000) were still being climbed with spurs and were still alive. I am not advocating the use of spurs to trim trees that are not around powerlines, I accept it is not that good for them.
But this takes the cake, you can see hundreds of gaff marks on these trees (pines, alders, hemlocks, etc.), and they are doing good, or appear to be. Some of the marks are hard to see and are healed right over, others are fresher. So, how come they are not dead, I mean climbed dozens of times, every year, for years? By guys starting out, baby steps, driving thier new spurs in hard 'cause they are scared to fall (remember how that felt), anyways, are the trees in B.C. so much tougher, or is the "spurs kill trees" line a little hysterical?
But this takes the cake, you can see hundreds of gaff marks on these trees (pines, alders, hemlocks, etc.), and they are doing good, or appear to be. Some of the marks are hard to see and are healed right over, others are fresher. So, how come they are not dead, I mean climbed dozens of times, every year, for years? By guys starting out, baby steps, driving thier new spurs in hard 'cause they are scared to fall (remember how that felt), anyways, are the trees in B.C. so much tougher, or is the "spurs kill trees" line a little hysterical?