This white oak popped up after being released by a harvest in the mid-1950's. Unfortunately, it is just a stone's (or trash) throw from a township road, and it came up right through the middle of a discarded tire. The landowner is doing some work in his timber, so he is going to save it from a slow strangulation, just in the nick of time. I see a lot of interesting discarded junk when I am out and about, but old tires in the woods are always ugly. It wouldn't be right to leave you with this image in your mind, so here is a closeup of a little flower like the ones growing around the tire.
That's better, isn't it?
This white oak popped up after being released by a harvest in the mid-1950's. Unfortunately, it is just a stone's (or trash) throw from a township road, and it came up right through the middle of a discarded tire. The landowner is doing some work in his timber, so he is going to save it from a slow strangulation, just in the nick of time. I see a lot of interesting discarded junk when I am out and about, but old tires in the woods are always ugly. It wouldn't be right to leave you with this image in your mind, so here is a closeup of a little flower like the ones growing around the tire.
That's better, isn't it?
What is the procedure to "save the tree from strangulation"? Given the age of the rubber, it'll probably just flake off. The steel belts I'm guessing require an abrasive wheel of some sort?
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The inner rings are reinforced with wire or nylon, so he will need to cut them and peel the sections away from the tree. Trees will try to grow around tough obstacles, and sometimes it is impossible to remove the problem without doing major damage to the cambium.
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