"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.

Do you put anything around the trunks of your fruit tree to protect from rodents and rabbits? I was thinking about using black flex drain pipe cut to size. Did not know if anybody has used that before?
 
Great job on the porch, those cedar trunks give the house a lot of character. Property is looking amazing, impressive growth on those loblolly pines.
 
satguy,
What i do use regular window screen tall enough to keep them from getting chewed.Just use a regular office stapler to fasten ends together,then cage them
 
That's fast. Wife had the camaro up to 103 with me couple of weeks ago and why exciting also very scary. Car still had a lot more in it but that was fast enough fo me.
Porch looKs great.
Lots of flowers on those trees. Pollinators, mainly honey and mason bees, are coming out here once it warms up.
 
Satguy said:
Do you put anything around the trunks of your fruit tree to protect from rodents and rabbits? I was thinking about using black flex drain pipe cut to size. Did not know if anybody has used that before?
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Do what buckdeer1 said with the window screen. I've heard horror stories about the black pipe. You can buy window screen at Walmart...

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Fruit trees getting fungus and diseases due to moist conditions inside the tube, mice/voles building nests inside and girdling the tree, and heat problems from the black plastic. I've never used it myself but I did research it (I thought it would be good idea) and these are the reasons I was told to not use it.
 
Satguy said:
Do you put anything around the trunks of your fruit tree to protect from rodents and rabbits? I was thinking about using black flex drain pipe cut to size. Did not know if anybody has used that before?
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I haven't ever used anything on fruit tree bases and only use welded wire for protection... maybe too many predators around here or something but I don't have any issues with that stuff...
Weasel said:
Great job on the porch, those cedar trunks give the house a lot of character. Property is looking amazing, impressive growth on those loblolly pines.
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Thanks, that's what I was going for on the cedar...got front porch completed now and will move to back entry porch next but have lots of tree planting to do now and a bunch of direct seeding of acorns...
dogdoc said:
That's fast. Wife had the camaro up to 103 with me couple of weeks ago and why exciting also very scary. Car still had a lot more in it but that was fast enough fo me.
Porch looKs great.
Lots of flowers on those trees. Pollinators, mainly honey and mason bees, are coming out here once it warms up.
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I noticed red wasp doing the pollinating thing on Thursday but it is mid 20's now with a frost so hard it looks like snow...always next year I guess..

We got a decent soaking rain here all day yesterday with some sleet toward the end of the day. Farm logs only shows 4/10's but better than nothing...hope it loosened the soil up enough for me to dig today for tree planting and some tree transplanting...
 
catscratch said:
Fruit trees getting fungus and diseases due to moist conditions inside the tube, mice/voles building nests inside and girdling the tree, and heat problems from the black plastic. I've never used it myself but I did research it (I thought it would be good idea) and these are the reasons I was told to not use it.
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I have heard the same...
 
catscratch said:
Fruit trees getting fungus and diseases due to moist conditions inside the tube, mice/voles building nests inside and girdling the tree, and heat problems from the black plastic. I've never used it myself but I did research it (I thought it would be good idea) and these are the reasons I was told to not use it.
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Makds sense. Thanks for the info.
 
Okie...I been a traveling fool the last month and just now catching up on threads. Absolutely love the porch addition...particularly the cedar posts with partial limbs left. Looks fantastic! Go Eli!!!
 
May have missed it; how do you intend to strip the bark from the cedar posts? I've used a pressure washer before but that was on trees that had been dead a while. I might need to strip something a little fresher and not sure the pressure washer thing is going to work as well.

Also, you might have thought of it already but I've found that all the wood I've harvested and brought into the house has needed sprayed with insecticide or wrapped in black plastic in the sun for a while. Lots of little borers and stuff inhabiting these logs that I don't to continue living under the surface... or getting into adjacent structural wood.
 
I used black tubing two years ago. I lost every tree it was "protecting". I think the heat caused it. I had a couple hundred feet so I cut it in 5' lengths and drilled some holes in it for airflow. It doesn't matter why. It just matters the trees are dead and gone along with the time and money to invested plus at least a year behind on the planting. I was hard headed. I read from the guys on the closed forum it was a bad idea and did it anyhow. Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way. I did.
 
Cat, I can't remember the exact dates but sometime in the spring a few years past Anne and I peeled full size red cedar trees in minutes each with a simple scraper. It comes off so easily. I did a search in hopes of finding out why and here is the link.

http://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/peeling_logs

On one of our maple sales the logging company appeared to have left one of the logs by mistake. When I walked over to look at the log, it was just the bark--perfectly removed just by moving it around a little while they were grading it. It was 12 ft. long fresh cut, stayed together in one piece and retained its perfect round log shape.
 
Triple C said:
Okie...I been a traveling fool the last month and just now catching up on threads. Absolutely love the porch addition...particularly the cedar posts with partial limbs left. Looks fantastic! Go Eli!!!
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We are really excited about the porch...we haven't got to sit out on it much yet because we have had a big cold spell lately and I have been cutting a bunch of trees, hauling wood, splitting by hand, and stacking because my tree order just came in and I am preparing the spots I want the trees to go...Have 500 seedlings to put in the ground this weekend...the partial limbs give you a nice place to hang things like steel traps, hunting jacket before you go in, etc...
catscratch said:
May have missed it; how do you intend to strip the bark from the cedar posts? I've used a pressure washer before but that was on trees that had been dead a while. I might need to strip something a little fresher and not sure the pressure washer thing is going to work as well.

Also, you might have thought of it already but I've found that all the wood I've harvested and brought into the house has needed sprayed with insecticide or wrapped in black plastic in the sun for a while. Lots of little borers and stuff inhabiting these logs that I don't to continue living under the surface... or getting into adjacent structural wood.
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Cat...the cedar bark will peel right off especially after it has been cut for a little bit. I like the look of it with the bark and the one post I have that is clear of bark has been down for 3 years and was cut in February 2014...bark just fell off and I drug that log out of a dozer pile... Once the bark basically "falls" off I will clear-coat the post...

As far as insect's go cedar has a natural resistance to insects which is why cedar lined closets, cedar chest, and cedar drawers are made to keep bugs out of your clothes. Other than the little cedar borer beetle there really are no insect issues and a sprayed application of permithrin will take care of those and in post applications like I am using there is no structural damage and only some cosmetic damage can occur which only makes the post look more rustic if cedar borer gets into that. All of the wood attached to the post everywhere is either cedar or treated so the tiny borer beetle has nowhere to go...
 
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