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    Root Collar Excavation/ Stem-girdling Root Pruning thread

    Oscillating tool is great. My one and only YouTube video, I showed using an air chisel on some big ugly SGR. @climbingmonkey24 the pics are there. If you'd rather let me know and I'll try to find them in a folder and post here.
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    Gap Arborist Supply Closed?

    Yeah...I couldn't get on their site last week. I wasn't sure if it was something on my end...guess not. Hope they are doing OK.
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    Root Collar Excavation/ Stem-girdling Root Pruning thread

    If you don't remove the girdling roots on a declining tree, what happens? It dies, right? If you do...well it may die, or hopefully it will do better. The things I watch for/points of discussion with client. Is it realistic to expect recovery? That's a professional judgement call. I don't...
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    Hands turning dark/purple

    That will depend on the individual doctor too. Some will only take referrals so they aren't overwhelmed by the hypochondriacs.
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    Silky Tsurugi for $49

    If it's not right I'll send them back. But I don't care too much of it's large or medium teeth.
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    Beech Leaf Disease

    @GregManning - any efforts to treat your tree(s)?
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    Silky Tsurugi for $49

    On Amazon. Its large tooth. I prefer medium tooth, but for the price, I'm not gonna complain! Not sure how long that price will last. I bought 2... https://www.amazon.com/Silky-Professional-450-30-Tsurugi-Handsaw/dp/B005Z070V2/ (description does say Med teeth, but the pic is red handle...
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    Hands turning dark/purple

    Maybe start with a chiro - if you have one you have confidence in??? The good thing about self pay, if the specialist will see you without a referral, you don't need to ask anybody's permission. Just go and pay. We've found they aren't that much more expensive than others - its just knowing...
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    Beech Leaf Disease

    From what I've read/learned (mostly Cleveland Metroparks where it was first identified) its understory trees in a forest. They would not be more vigorous as a young landscape tree might be. They are already fighting for their survival with limited sun, so I think its like you said - smaller...
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    Hands turning dark/purple

    Probably worth a visit to a doc - a visit shouldn't be a few hundred dollars max. That's not nothing, but its less than 1 month insurance. Our local health system has a 50% discount for self-pay... Ask around. More self diagnositics... a pulse ox monitor is pretty cheap.
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    Beech Leaf Disease

    Yeah I was going to tell @Treezybreez to hold the leaves so they are backlit (sunlight works well) and look for that banding. There are "sections" between the veins. They alternate light and dark with BLD. Also BLD isn't necessarily a death certificate. Older trees hold on for at least...
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    Giant Trees - a research project.

    Much of Appalachia had been clear cut twice by 1850... Especially if there were any iron furnaces nearby. Then Chestnut blight hit in the first half of the 20th century wiping out a high percentage of trees again.
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    Giant Trees - a research project.

    That is the question! Let's plant 200 trees on randomized 1 acre plots. Encourage half to have low branches and half to look like "a proper woods grown tree" then report our findings in 150 years. I'll get the seedlings. You get the land and time ;) The best we have to work with is what you...
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    Giant Trees - a research project.

    I wasn't questioning your methods at all. Just saying that the way a tree branches influences DBH. That Silver maple is a good example. Look how quickly the diameter drops above the first 2 branches. Now imagine if those were not there (pruned off or lost to competition when the tree was...
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    Equipment Financing Companies

    So I just looked at a statement. It says "AVANT TECNO Financial Solutions" all over it. But at the bottom it has an overnight delivery service contact addressed to: "Bank of America Lockbox Services, Auxilior Capital Partners" So its apparently a shell of BOA. Not asking you to say more...
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    TGR Benefits

    Well, that brings up up another explanation related to the the "income" for a tree that comes from leaves. This is related to defoliating insects: I first explain that trees do have a "savings account" in the roots so they can take some defoliation and put out a new flush of leaves. That's...
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    TGR Benefits

    Absolutely. I think I may have come up with that...or I may have stolen it from somebody else long ago! So feel free - even pretend its yours.
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    Equipment Financing Companies

    I think they (manufacturer) must supplement the loans. The only equipment loan I've ever taken was last year 0.99% for 36 months from Avant (other option was 0% for 24 months)...but I think they may be holding the note based on the statements I get unless they are also sending paperwork on...
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    Sawdust, a washing machine killer?

    That looks like it may be the exact same model as our washer. The Maytag dryer keeps going and is relatively easy to repair, so I haven't gone to a Speed Queen dryer yet, but maybe when the current dryer quits.
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    TGR Benefits

    Paclobutrazol blocks the tree's production of gibberellins. Since the tree has extra sugars that it isn't using for the gibberellins or the associated tip and shoot growth, it is "looking" for someplace else to use that. Secondary meristem growth is controlled primarily by auxin and cytokinin...

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