Removing Leads from half-Dead Man-maple

[treeness]

I do agree on the money aspect of the tree, the wood is as heavy as gold. There is only one Lou I know from Manitoulin and he's a legend, my instructor all through school. Great guy to shoot the ish with, hardly felt like he was my teacher.

 

[adolan]

Of course I was talking about Lou dog from the "island" lol I was in your class!

 

[treeness]

Now your just baffling me with mystery, who is this?

 

[jmcscrap]

Boxelders are notorious here for butt rot, seems like everytime the wind blows we lose 2-3 because the roots have all died....

 

[Toparboring]

Nice vid Frax yeah Boxelder is a fun tree to work in and if people like them you just made a lifetime client.

 

[classictruckman]

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Good work, but is that really a Maple? The bark and leaves look more like sour wood.

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Boxelder to you...Manitoba maple to me.

Never seen a sourwood. I live a sheltered life as far as trees go.

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Anytime you wanna make a trip out here, we have some bigger, stronger trees. Although still nothing like you see down south.

 

[Frax]

I'm in Ottawa at least once a year Classic! Sounds like a plan.

 

[dylanclimbs]

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Plus I was born in a nickel mining town in Manitoba.

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The Flon??

Nice work, Nora. I, for one, like working on Manitoba maples. I've always looked at people funny when they've tried to tell me you can't trust em, or that they are brittle. I suppose when your only frame of reference is the hard maple, or oak tree, then the softer maples seem sketchy, or garbage trees.

I've worked on some dandies in Calgary, real dandies. Out here, they all seem to be afflicted by the boxelder bug, like real bad. Just thousands on the trees, millions perhaps. Don't want one anywhere near a house, lest the morning coffee carry a little extra protein.

I've got one growing in my back lot, self seeded, dang thing grew 6 feet this year from a cotyledon last year. Unreal.

Oh, and don't sell the Calgary climbing experience short. Its a great place to learn trees and tree climbing...I think you are well aware. Those eastern seaboarders are blessed to work on the hardwoods they have out there.

 

[highclimber30]

I like to call em the stink ash, learned it on wikipedia. We've gottem here too, they look as if they get bigger up north. Can't say I've ever seen one around here that could be mistaken for a quality tree. Nice vid Frax, nothing at all to criticize, my thumb comes unwrapped all the time, dmn thumb. What's that red fungus this tree gets that makes it smell like an asser negundo?

 

[classictruckman]

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I've got one growing in my back lot, self seeded, dang thing grew 6 feet this year from a cotyledon last year. Unreal.


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Yeah we cut one down last winter about 15' tall, got a call in the spring to go cut the stump lower(couldn't in the winter because of the snow)we got there and were in shock the dam thing grew back!!! all 15' of it, all green like new growth except the suckers were 3" or bigger.

 

[RopeShield]

Thats what they call Stooling. Victorian Era technique for producing large leaves and flowers with ornamental trees like Catalpa, Paulownia, Aesculus etc.

Allow the tree to get approx 12" in dia and then cut it down to stool height, watch the sucka grow and then choose the most vigorous sprout to remain.

Big lush and tropical like leaves and floweres and fruit if your lucky.
Its crazy go nuts plant growth.