damage from tree tags

[Stephen Blair]

so is ot the rust thats causing the problem then in the tree?

[David oakman]

That or wet. I have seen the plastic tree ties inside a tree stem and it was going the same colour which must be water getting in i think:001_smile: I know a plantation where the trees keep dying because they used the potato bag ties and they are growing in the stems and they rot at them two places and snap:thumbdown:

[Arborist Sites]

Prob is when you explain about alloy nails to the client and the extra cost its a big NO. I wont pay the difference and therefore we use the cheaper version and as can be seen is no good. Catch 22

[Stephen Blair]

they cant be that much more expensive in the grand scale od a tree survey though, can they?

[Arborist Sites]

x by how ever many trees and you would be supprised.

 

If you ordered a taxi and i replied i could pick you up in a merc instead of the nissan sunny but it would be 3x more for you 10 min trip to the pub you would tell me where to go

[Mesterh]

Looks like someone didnt want that tag to fall off!

 

I use standard steel nails but try to tap them into thicker bits of bark or where it splits, less likely for the tree to grow around it.

[Stephen Blair]

x by how ever many trees and you would be supprised.

 

If you ordered a taxi and i replied i could pick you up in a merc instead of the nissan sunny but it would be 3x more for you 10 min trip to the pub you would tell me where to go

 

i was looking for a real price comparison between steel and alloy.

[Ian Leach]

I use small coach bolts screws into bark like cork screw if screwed the timber closes around it, so less water gets to it

[David Humphries]

I put up some bat boxes for the council, we used aluminum nails, so some poor bugger don't knacker their chain in 100 years time.

 

No worries there Dave, as by then, science will eventually have discovered how to harness a Novalaser, which will be adminstered by future arbs using jetpacks and will back cut through any stem or obsticle.

All delivered at 1 petawatt = quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) watts of power.

 

So............... no more blunty chain sharpening

 

 

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

And no chance for a quick cuppa/crafty fag