Christopher23434

Please keep me updated if any of you know any tips/advice for the tree. Thank you!

@Khriss No way. 😬

👍 Thank you. 

Lol   It almost seems like a conspirator-planned joke against me  But to re-summarize, I am not throwing knives at the tree, I am extremely worried about the generation old tree dying as a result of my unknowing actions.

Thank you and have a great day  

Well thank you for the reassurance, but it is obvious, like many before you, have not read my previous messages  I am not entirely surprised.   

Does anyone have any actual advice? I am doing the mulching and watering, but I am not sure that will do anything.

The bugs have completely gone, and the tree looks okay for the moment.

I don't use Utube for my knife throwing, except to catch up on the Adam Celadin channel. 

The trick is to spend months figuring it out, it is immensely rewarding. 

Are we getting into a boasting mach? I can shoot much better than I throw knives

But to be honest, I have to correct you. I cannot hit a strawberry from 30 feet (only 5-10 ft) but can hit a plank about 2 ft by 3 ft from that far. 

I am working on breaking my record and a few hours ago I might have just done it. I will have to measure it tomorrow.

But back to the subject, does anyone have any thoughts about how to ensure the trees survival?

I certainly hope so. Although my long standing motto is that hope is not a strategy. 

Lol it seems that you have not read my above posts. Let me make this brief. I am not throwing knives at it, I stopped weeks ago after finding out stripping bark could cause damage.

Now I am wondering if there is anything I can do to make sure the tree lives.

Thank you for reading

Is this damage potentially harmful to the tree?

I have a few pictures of the tree bark damage  (that last one is for identification):

48 minutes ago, roys said:

While nailing the fly😀

Unfortunately I can only hit a target around as big as a strawberry, and not 100% of the time. Talking about that, it is possible all the strawberry juice from my demos has attracted the flies, though I cannot be sure because all the other trees around the area are infected.

I am a lot less panicked about the tree and I hope/think that It will be okay after doing some additional research .  

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Hang on, hang on!

 

We’re missing the point here...

 

I would like to see the knives!

 

Even better, a short vid of the throwing! That’s some impressive distance esp if on target 🎯

That would be fun... My current record is a little past 29 ft. Ironically it is the same tree that is damaged that I managed to get.

As for the knives,  I could not get an actual picture, but these are the ones: 

And some of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Whetstone-Throwing-Knives-S-Force-Silver/dp/B082BR74JB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kunai+knives&qid=1624221495&s=sporting-goods&sr=1-1

For those who are interested in knife throwing,

I can only get the large carbon steel ones to go far. I actually like the target someone posted earlier. I need to find some new stumps to cut a good tree target out of to get a soft throw.

My throwing secret for long distance is my under hand housespin technique, which is to throw underhand with the point of the knife pointing towards your wrist and the flat of the blade against your palm.  Using this technique, you have to get it to do a half spin rotation into a soft, large target.

Other than that, I usualy do housespin on planks, which is just a regular half spin by the knife blade. 

I even threw forks, kitchen knives, spoons, and corn cobbers, although the spoons had to go handle first.

😏 I am getting the impression that either you can not help me, or you are right and it is not a big deal.

As I previously mentioned, I am not doing it. I am trying to hash out any potential consequences. 

No I have been using plywood for the past two weeks. I only got worried because of reading & hearing that it could damage or even kill the tree.

I love my hobby of knife throwing and have managed to get it a tree over 29 feet. 

It is true I cannot do things like that 29 feet away, but a plank is good enough.

I am just worried about the tree, which has been alive since I moved In 8 years ago.

Thank you for your time, I will keep checking if anyone has any information on the trees health and the flies.

Also, those flies have infested all other trees on the area, but seem to be heavily infesting the tree mentioned.

Thank you. 

I need help! 

It recently came to my attention that I probably have been killing the 50 foot or so tall evergreen in our yard. :(

I have been throwing knives at it for a month or so, and the bark is damaged from about head to toe level in meter high places around the tree.

I dont know how to fix it and thousands of flies are infesting the bark, although those same flies are on many trees around the property :(

Please help, I am panicing!