Dead Trees - love slicing and dicing them

[mdvaden]

Whenever time allows, I sure enjoy cutting dead trees apart to see what may be inside.

 

Took down a fairly small birch today. My guess is that it died not just from topping, but from root damage too.

 

The top was somewhat hollow and composted. As I cut the trunk every 5 feet from the top, the width of decay got narrower inside, making me think that topping was not the only culprit. They the next sections showed the diameter of decay increasing significantly, and almost the entire width near the stump.

[Khriss]

You'll carve som good planters out of that-twenty knicker a peice

 

K