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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #40 on: July 06, 2008, 06:39:53 pm »

 Any of y'all remember the little tree  in the beginning of this post ???

  Here's the little feller, 1½ years later.

 

  We had a discussion a long while back, whether or not trees grow UP as they grow. The discussion was about fence wire being too high for the fence to keep in cattle. Check out the rope marks on this tree, where I tie Reina's clothesline. The second pic is for comparison to the height from the ground. The original line was tied at 5½ feet, because Reina is short.

 

 

  That line is now nearly 10 feet off the ground.  :o  So, yes, trees DO grow UP as they grow up.  ::) ;D ;D :D
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #41 on: July 06, 2008, 07:16:04 pm »
I don't know what you mean by line here.

If you mean clothes line, then it moved up because Harold moved it there.

If you mean that growth node, then that is where the bud scar is for that year's growth. Not a scar caused by the clothes line wire. ;D
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« Reply #42 on: July 06, 2008, 07:20:33 pm »

 Sharpen up yer Bi-focals, SD. That top LINE is the ORIGINAL place I tied that clothesline, 1½ years ago. I have dropped it down several times, so Reina can reach the line.

  That bud scar is NOT the line in question.  ::) ::) ;D ;D
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« Reply #43 on: July 06, 2008, 07:24:13 pm »
Then blame it on Fred, he's been up to hanky panky and moving Reina's clothes line.  ;D
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #44 on: July 06, 2008, 07:28:52 pm »

 Even Fred can't reach THAT high.  ::) ;D ;D
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #45 on: July 06, 2008, 10:00:48 pm »
Wow Harold!

You have discovered a new trees species, the only one in the world where the cambium grows up as well as out.  You better get some cuttings so that you can patent it :).

It is either that or you have a climbing clothes line :D :D :D :D.
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« Reply #46 on: July 06, 2008, 10:05:07 pm »

 I knew y'all wouldn't believe it  ::) ::)

  Photo is proof, that's all I know.
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #47 on: July 06, 2008, 10:08:26 pm »
I'm with ya Harold. :)
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #48 on: July 06, 2008, 10:15:04 pm »
Harold
Just hafta know what kind of tree that is...any ideas?

How high do you think that "line" moved up that tree in one year?  ???
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #49 on: July 07, 2008, 07:38:11 am »
beenthere - it's a balsa.

Harold, I find this pretty interesting.  The phenomenon you are describing here is not possible according to our understanding of tree physiology :P.  I'd like to see the same "experiment" repeated with something that can't be moved, the height of which is measured at consistent, repeated intervals.
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« Reply #50 on: July 07, 2008, 07:41:59 am »
  Tree is Balsa.  I'm getting ready to cut the limbs off, and send them to the Donkey, for his Bi-Plane project. After drying, they should go light freight charges, so, he won't be paying a fortune for the wood.

  I would guess, without measuring, that the top line scar is 16" above where the line is tied now. ???   I never thought this could happen, either. That's why I bothered to revive this thread.  :P ;D
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #51 on: July 07, 2008, 10:35:06 am »
Reminds me of a joke.
Two farmers had gone together and bought a big mule.  Trying to get him into the barn they found that the door was too short.  They were in the midst of tearing the top of the doorway apart to add some height to it when a new college grad from town stopped by and studied their plight.

"Why don't you just dig a bit of the dirt away at the bottom of the doorway",  he asked, and then promptly left, having solved the problem in his mind.

One farmer looked at the other and said, "just like a college boy, can't he see that this mule's ears are too long?   His legs are fine."
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #52 on: July 07, 2008, 10:51:37 am »
Quote from: Fla._Deadheader on July 07, 2008, 07:41:59 am
  Tree is Balsa.  I'm getting ready to cut the limbs off, and send them to the Donkey, for his Bi-Plane project. After drying, they should go light freight charges, so, he won't be paying a fortune for the wood.

Just full of torment and tease eh? :D

Basswood in the barn should work fine, when I get going on it. ;)
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« Reply #53 on: July 07, 2008, 06:05:50 pm »

 
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Just full of torment and tease eh?
  I don't think so.  >:( >:(

  You DID say you wanted it, RIGHT ???  >:( >:(
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Re: Any Idee's ???
« Reply #54 on: July 08, 2008, 02:46:44 am »
I said I need some, and I knew you had some, but was in jest as it's half a world away. Basswood is closer. ;D
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« Reply #55 on: July 19, 2008, 04:01:36 pm »
the balsa tree was used by the polynesians to build the kon tiki rafts they sailed from peru to tahiti this is how the islands of the south pacific were settled
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