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Post by missouriboy on Sept 9, 2017 13:41:36 GMT
Maybe a butterfly fapped it's wings real hard in Africa. Tinkerbell's on a bender. Pixie dust gone wild.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 10, 2017 5:57:08 GMT
Maybe a butterfly fapped it's wings real hard in Africa. Watched a docco recently about a West Australian forest; one of the biggest trees fell recently ..... had one in the back yard, felled it as a precaution. The Mexicans have suffered enough ;-) Eucalyptus jacksonii
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 10, 2017 13:07:27 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 10, 2017 14:46:20 GMT
I had a very large hackberry tree whose huge limbs shaded 2/3 of my house (just like the one below). It's canopy was a hive of animal activity. Squirrels inhabited its broken limb cavities and many generations of young trained in its canopy. It's annual berry drop attracted flocks of birds. Its trunk was perhaps 3.5 ft in diameter and had unfortunately developed stress joints in its bifurcated trunk. A severe micro-burst dropped the canopy in summer 2015 and draped it about the house. Insurance removed it and replaced the roof. Strong house ... never even shook when it came down. But the activity is gone. If given the choice, I would live under (or in) one again.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 10, 2017 14:58:58 GMT
I will be long gone before our 1st Black Walnut experiment reaches maturity. Magnificent trees! They aren't supposed to be able to survive here, but they do. They have survived very cold Winters as well as warm ones.
I currently have a plantation. Things were correct for missed fruit to sprout. Our farmstead shelter belt is aged, and I intend to rip parts of it out and transplant my plantation. The stock clearly demonstrates that it can survive.
Has been dry here, so I water them with 2"/week. Small saplings are growing very well.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 10, 2017 17:30:53 GMT
I will be long gone before our 1st Black Walnut experiment reaches maturity. Magnificent trees! They aren't supposed to be able to survive here, but they do. They have survived very cold Winters as well as warm ones. I currently have a plantation. Things were correct for missed fruit to sprout. Our farmstead shelter belt is aged, and I intend to rip parts of it out and transplant my plantation. The stock clearly demonstrates that it can survive. Has been dry here, so I water them with 2"/week. Small saplings are growing very well. Dry September here as well so far, although the early summer was normal. Perhaps the remnants of Irma will send us some water as that hurricane in 2012 did, helping to break that drought. On the edges of our old-growth white oak forest are walnuts and shagbark hickories in various stages of maturity. The monsters are scattered among the white oaks. The huge black walnut tree on top of the hill where the old house stood is ancient ... and filled with lead as it was the target practice tree. It's companion (at a distance) is a large cottonwood that is out of place on a hilltop ... fueling my speculation that there may be a concave clay layer at depth that retains water during dry periods.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 10, 2017 17:44:21 GMT
I will be long gone before our 1st Black Walnut experiment reaches maturity. Magnificent trees! They aren't supposed to be able to survive here, but they do. They have survived very cold Winters as well as warm ones. I currently have a plantation. Things were correct for missed fruit to sprout. Our farmstead shelter belt is aged, and I intend to rip parts of it out and transplant my plantation. The stock clearly demonstrates that it can survive. Has been dry here, so I water them with 2"/week. Small saplings are growing very well. One of my former neighbors, since deceased, had a wonderful house. He was a retried railroad engineer and would tinker endless around his home. He built, from scratch,hand made,the entire door knob latch of his front door. The only part not hand forged was the deadbolt key cylinder. It was beautiful. Back out in his shop he had a full on forge/furnace and a paint drying room. Image a large room with 12 foot high ceilings and the walls and ceilings were covered with light bulbs placed every 2 ft. Awesome. Among the art he provided to the neighborhood was a huge walnut tree in his front yard. This was a magnificent species and a few young sapling in my yard over the years were because of squirrels transporting nuts. (I hate squirrels) Sadly after he died, a young fellow purchased his place. I went over to say hello and give him some history of the place, did he know the grape vines out front were from some of the first vine stock bought over by WSU when it was starting up it's viticulture program? He said he was going to retain the place just as it was, which made me happy, but his first order of business was to take down the massive walnut shading his home from the morning and afternoon sun. There was not reason to do so as the tree was very healthy and I suspect he just didn't like the look. He also took down the quaint split rail fence enclosing the front yard that kept folks walking by on the sidewalk away from the fruit trees in the front yard. Image a split rail fence with grapes growing on it protecting a front yard of draft fruit tree and a massive oak in the middle shading the house behind. A great shame. I could no more cut down our ancient living white oaks and walnuts than I could cut my own throat. I took an oath to leave them as they are ... although no oath was necessary.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 10, 2017 18:34:39 GMT
To cut down a magnificent tree is..........
The fellow had a loose screw.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 10, 2017 20:28:20 GMT
I will be long gone before our 1st Black Walnut experiment reaches maturity. Magnificent trees! They aren't supposed to be able to survive here, but they do. They have survived very cold Winters as well as warm ones. I currently have a plantation. Things were correct for missed fruit to sprout. Our farmstead shelter belt is aged, and I intend to rip parts of it out and transplant my plantation. The stock clearly demonstrates that it can survive. Has been dry here, so I water them with 2"/week. Small saplings are growing very well. (I hate squirrels) You must have Yankee squirrels. My southern squirrels are well behaved. My brother who lives in Kansas has the same problem. He plants flowers on his deck in the spring time and he claims the squirrels dig them up and toss them to the ground below. I tell him that those are Kansas squirrels, and cannot be compared with their civilized Missouri cousins.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 10, 2017 22:40:55 GMT
[ Snip ] A great shame. I could no more cut down our ancient living white oaks and walnuts than I could cut my own throat. I took an oath to leave them as they are ... although no oath was necessary. I feel the same. Put it in your will! PS: Oh, could you leave your data store to me?
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 11, 2017 2:00:01 GMT
[ Snip ] A great shame. I could no more cut down our ancient living white oaks and walnuts than I could cut my own throat. I took an oath to leave them as they are ... although no oath was necessary. I feel the same. Put it in your will! PS: Oh, could you leave your data store to me? My throat? Or the trees?
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Post by Ratty on Sept 11, 2017 6:10:27 GMT
I feel the same. Put it in your will! PS: Oh, could you leave your data store to me? My throat? Or the trees? Hmmmmm ..... now let me think.
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Post by acidohm on Sept 20, 2017 18:16:48 GMT
Japan just got a 6.1...mexico couple of days ago.6.2 new Zealand yesterday
If we get a big volcano go off, we may have to look at this with a bit less sceptism,
Or at least I will....😉
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 20, 2017 21:05:26 GMT
Japan just got a 6.1...mexico couple of days ago.6.2 new Zealand yesterday If we get a big volcano go off, we may have to look at this with a bit less sceptism, Or at least I will....😉 Don't think I've seen any papers really attempting to explain in detail the forces that result in more seismicity ... but the data I've seen analyzed suggest clustering of generally larger events in periods of lower solar activity. Of course some people thought (think) that our CO2 is dangerous. But I see no reason to believe that geomagnetic - gravitational (electric) forces couldn't have such an effect. And may well. Was that enough of a hedged answer?
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Post by Ratty on Sept 20, 2017 22:26:32 GMT
Japan just got a 6.1...mexico couple of days ago.6.2 new Zealand yesterday If we get a big volcano go off, we may have to look at this with a bit less sceptism, Or at least I will....😉 Don't think I've seen any papers really attempting to explain in detail the forces that result in more seismicity ... but the data I've seen analyzed suggest clustering of generally larger events in periods of lower solar activity. Of course some people thought (think) that our CO2 is dangerous. But I see no reason to believe that geomagnetic - gravitational (electric) forces couldn't have such an effect. And may well. Was that enough of a hedged answer? I think so .....
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