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Fred Morgan
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:07 am |
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We have a few of our teak trees that have bowed, sometimes a lot. It really is a very small percentage, say 10 or 20 out of 3,000. They also seemed to be grouped in one area too.
Anyway, I was out in the fields yesterday and Hector and Martin came up with the ATV and started tying them up. Have you ever tried to bring back to straight a tree that is nearly 30 feet tall? We were actually able to do it.
I was for just cutting them down since they were obviously defective (in my eyes) but Hector found out that you can save them by straightening them.
Teak tends to go straight up first with pretty skinny logs, then, at about 24 to 30 feet stop for a while and put on thickness.
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LogRite
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:18 am |
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Are they tying them off like circus tent poles? You should post some photos.
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Fred Morgan
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:23 am |
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If I get a chance I will. All but one only needed a single line. One required two.
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LogRite
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:26 am |
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| Is it because the ground is softening up during rainy season. Or are the young trees just too top heavy?
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Fred Morgan
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:30 am |
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It is just that a few are geneticly weak - anytime you plant 30,000 trees, you can expect a few to be bad. Our current loss is around 5 % which is considered very good.
There are trees that are the same diameter if not a little thinner who look just fine, for some reason, a few trees resemble a wet noodle - but the most your couldn't bend if you tried.
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