[AT] Knowing when to call it a day

[Mike M]

We moved into a property that is littered with Honey Locust, I am in the
process of eliminating them one by one. They are nasty trees and loaded
with 1-1/2 to 2" thorns.  Aaron we can't be too far apart, I live in
rural Howell.

Mike M

On 11/17/2019 7:37 PM, Aaron Dickinson wrote:
>
> My parents chose to plant 5 hawthorns as part of there landscaping in
> 1972, not bad when they were new, inside a long flowerbed. Over the
> years the trees grew and the flowerbed shrank. They didn’t last long
> once the flowerbed was returned to lawn and me, mower, and limbs came
> to a meeting.  My dad also planted a thornapple in the yard causing my
> great uncle to ask my grandfather how they managed to allow someone
> into the family that would intentional plant thorny apple brush in
> their yard. My great uncle always fought thornapples in the fencerows
> on his farm, he did later comment at what a pretty tree it has grown
> into with proper pruning.
>
> Aaron Dickinson
>
> Mason, Michigan
>
> *From: *Carl Gogol <mailto:cgogol1971 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, November 16, 2019 3:51 PM
> *To: *'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group'
> <mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [AT] Knowing when to call it a day
>
> After reading the extreme hate common on the list for Osage Orange I
> looked it up on line because the picture Dean posted of its growth
> structure looks so similar to my most hated tree, Hawthorne. 
> Everything you say is common to the cutting of Hawthorne.  Hawthorne
> has tiny fruit in comparison, but has the common need for sucker
> branches spaced 10 to the foot forces one to dismantle the clumps like
> a puzzle.
>
> Carl
>
> Manlius NY
>
> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *Dean
> Vinson
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 16, 2019 3:11 PM
> *To:* 'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group'
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> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Knowing when to call it a day
>
> Cecil wrote:  “I had not thought of taking the saw off the bar.  I
> will store that in the fuzzy memory bank for future use...”  That was
> the one bright spot for me of the whole experience, when I saw my
> chainsaw bar impaled into the ground:  At least the saw itself hadn’t
> been on the receiving end of all that energy.   The bar took a beating
> but I had a spare in the shop, so I was back in business today.
>
> And “In the fireplace, the wood is so dense that a small pocket of
> moisture in the wood can turn into an explosion.”  Yep.  I burn a lot
> of it in my wood stove where it’s safely behind the doors, but even
> there I have to be careful when opening the stove to feed in more wood
> or even when opening the ash pan door… the sudden rush of air
> sometimes precipitates a frenzy of sparks that shoot out all over the
> place.
>
> I went back out and finished cutting up that tree today, without
> further incident other than cursing the difficult nature of those
> trees in general.   I took the attached photo to show a particularly
> nasty section… it doesn’t all look like that, but a little bit is more
> than enough.
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
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