cutting a co dominant

And just to stay on topic...the best way to remove a large codominant stem is not to remove it at all. It's much perfered to manage it with cables, subordination, or both. If there are no laterals, a good stub can initiate sprouting, then in time return to manage those sprouts, much like topping repair.
A subordinated branch may never need to be removed.
If a large codominat stem does need to be removed, and you're into heartwood, then sure, make a proper prunning cut and understand this might be stage one of a removal.
One interesting point is, that codominant stem removals where there was shoots or small brances near the cut, did a better job of compartmentalizing than those that did not have branches nearby.
 
Ah see, now this is getting much better. A really good thread.

It can be a problem to return to some of the stub cuts in the canopy to target cut them later ... I can see some people thinking you're conning them and after a recall for $'s.

Hey, have a look at this video. It's 2.47mins long and 13.67MB in wmv streaming format so the Mac users can feel pissed off /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif I wonder if Glens has got a Mac? Anyway, here's the link.

www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/codom.wmv

The species although a rapid grower is soft and light wood, what would you do here? I'm open to ideas ... sometimes /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Right at 50 minutes to fetch. Plays fine on my Linux box. Macs should fare fairly with it too, though you would do well to consider using better, for several reasons, ogg. There's a link to software near the bottom of the article, http://vorbis.com/software/.

I just (loosely) remembered a joke from a gradeschool magazine from 35 years ago or so. A Texan was visiting Australia and was being given a tour of a ranch. The Aussie pointed out some of the cattle and the Texan said "You call those cattle? Our heifers are bigger than that." Similar remarks were made about other things as well, since as we all know, everything in Texas is bigger and better. But then the Texan pointed to a kangaroo and asked "What the hell is that?" The Aussie asked in return "Don't you have grasshoppers in Texas?".
 
Gee, you get into some wierd stuff, like never heard of half that stuff. I try to stay mainstream so anyone can click on and watch.

When I look at my server stats it's like 92% of visitors are using IE, 7% Firefox and there's a few wierdo's here and there ... probably protestors and unemployed greenies using off the beaten track products! Haha

50 mins to download that! Wow, you'll have to pedal faster.

Anyway, got some suggestions for that wound?
 
It's sad to see a tree in that shape in that type of location. She absolutely wants to keep it? How old is she? If she's only got a few years left herself and the tree is sentimental then it might be worth trying to prolong the inevitable for a little while.

Some thru-bolts and major reduction are all I could suggest, but my advice would be to not delay getting a fresh start with a replacement. One that will be maintained from early on to head off such structural problems. One that wouldn't tend to spread so much over the structures like that.

I don't see enough there to work with to make it worthwhile.

What do you suppose your server stats signify beyond the almost total impossibility of buying a pre-assembled IBM compatible PC without having to pay the Microsoft tax? Trust me, it doesn't have the market share because it's good; it's purely evil marketing. To see for yourself just how much it really sucks, try using something else for a while.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060210/tc_cmp/179102616&printer=1

Ogg is good both for its technical merits and because it's unencumbered by patents. It's free that way and it's free monetarily, as is the excellent software which enables your Windows box to use it. What more could anyone want?
 
Yeah, you fixed it but good!

I got a kick out of how fast and far you ran from that little tree.

The thing I hate most about the streaming format you've used at least these last couple of times is that I can't back up to the beginning during play but instead have to start over anew. I believe a "fixed" format which would allow variable rewinding requires the whole file to be present before play can start. Obviously that would be detrimental to "streaming" it off a server, so indexing gets sacrificed for that purpose. For files which you're not actually streaming from a server, though, you might do better to not format them that way.

(Well, there's that and that I have to run bastard MS code to play them; it makes my feel dirty.)
 
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Yeah, you fixed it but good!

I got a kick out of how fast and far you ran from that little tree.

The thing I hate most about the streaming format you've used at least these last couple of times is that I can't back up to the beginning during play but instead have to start over anew.

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Glens, I could go back at will to any point in the video...I watched the top fall 10 times just for fun...every 2 seconds or so. 'Course, I am using that dirty old XP. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Good vid, Ekka...I'd a run, too....anything bigger than me is big.
 
The player I use has a mechanism for such streams where every 10 seconds becomes the new earliest point that can be rewound-to. So, for instance, once I get past 2:20, where Ekka is just fixin' to turn and run, I can jump right back to that point with my left arrow key. Until 2:30, which becomes the new pseudo-start-point. In A/V files which are not encoded specifically for streaming, I can jump to and fro throughout the file.

Sounds like yet another case (this time with the player) of MS doing stuff differently than the standards in an attempt to produce a "value-added" situation. So folks who use it to produce output not really suited to the usual purpose will never know it, and stuff which works as it's supposed to appears to be "broken" if/when they try their content on it. Same old song and dance from Redmond; embrace, extend, extinguish.
 
I ran coz I wanted to be safe /forum/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif

Could've got hung up and the broken leader pushed it around toward me ... I hate getting hit by shit. I'm fragile and old so takes me a while to recover /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Notice that whilst I was going thru the back cut I was looking up at the tips to see when it was going ... lot of wankers keep looking at the trunk /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Anyway, plays just great on my brand new MS XP system, thanks Mr Gates. Yeah, I got a brand new PC and loaded XP, damn thing thinks for itself and is so user friendly. My email server had a button to push to config your Outlook Express ... done, just like that and working, I love it.
 
A computer thinking for itself can be a very bad thing (hence all those zombies continually trying to infect me, even when I'm on an intermittent dialup connection).

Ekka, you really should do yourself a favor and try something like Ubuntu Linux if you want something that's user friendly (in the way I think you mean) and robust (not to mention actually capable). Don't ever forget that anything halfway interesting that MS does, they got the idea from someone else. The only thing they've ever really innovated on their own is evil licensing schemes.

I hate to have stuff hit me too, and the best way I've found to prevent that from happening is to not turn my back on a falling tree and/or quit watching overhead 'til everything's still again. I may have run as far and fast as you did, but if I saw a video clip of me doing it I would no doubt find it humorous. Don't take it too personally.
 
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