Diseased chips on ROW

[MuniciPAL]

blasting diseased chips on ROW. does anyone know how harmful this is to other trees? other then the Dutch Elm Disease are there any others i should be watching for? i tried to tell my boss that we are spreading DED and he said "the trees are fuc*ed anyways"
our company disenfects our tools for collar cuts, but it defeats the purpose blasting chips in the bush........am i right?

 

[D Mc]

Well, your boss sounds like a real jewel.

All the studies I have read said successful transfer rates of pathogens through finely chipped mulch are of very low percentage. If there is a down side here, it is going to be that the chips will improve the growing conditions on your ROW trees and suppress the low weedy vegetation that is competing with the trees for nutrition. So the trees that you are pruning to keep the ROW clear will flourish and require more pruning. You might as well be fertilizing them.

Dave

 

[treemandan]

Well, your boss sounds like a real jewel.

All the studies I have read said successful transfer rates of pathogens through finely chipped mulch are of very low percentage. If there is a down side here, it is going to be that the chips will improve the growing conditions on your ROW trees and suppress the low weedy vegetation that is competing with the trees for nutrition. So the trees that you are pruning to keep the ROW clear will flourish and require more pruning. You might as well be fertilizing them.

Dave

Hold on, you haven't seen the trees and you never met his boss. He might be right. Now I have to get back to cleaning all the dead elm trees up that have fallen in the woods. I only have about 16 gazillion acres to go.

 

[randyg]

I know that discharge from chipper directed at a tree can clean bark right off in short order if close enough. Other than that, whatever is going on ground was already in the area right?

 

[treemandan]

blasting diseased chips on ROW. does anyone know how harmful this is to other trees? other then the Dutch Elm Disease are there any others i should be watching for? i tried to tell my boss that we are spreading DED and he said "the trees are fuc*ed anyways"
our company disenfects our tools for collar cuts, but it defeats the purpose blasting chips in the bush........am i right?

You know... (no offense) BUT try to guess why your boss is the boss and you are not.
Lets see your plight. Allright. Everytime I see a new tree planted I feel a twinge of despair for the hard life it is about to endure.
I was busting up some emerald borer real good with the splitter the other day. What a bug! I have to say its gorgeous! Man they were in deep too.
Pine Drive got its name from the black pines planted by the WW 2 works projects. I stay on that street for weeks chewing up dead 40 foot pines. Actually I just fiinshed my rear neighbors place, took out at least 12 that were decemated by the beetles, no not John and Paul the other beatles. which way do you spell beetles again? What in the heck is a beatle anyway?

 

[treemandan]

I know that discharge from chipper directed at a tree can clean bark right off in short order if close enough. Other than that, whatever is going on ground was already in the area right?

as with everything its a science. You have to be careful, very careful. You look up and see it coming? You know you have done something wrong. "Watch war ya point that thing jackars!" Like those kids on the TV. Although if I wore a sheilded suit I wouldn't mind stand right in front of it... for a second. Hey I bet if you wore the right siut and stood the right distance it would feel like getting a shiatsu. How about when the lock is forgotten and it swings into oncoming traffic shooting chunks out? I love the view from up there I sure do. You know, they rent them to anybody with a drivers license too?

 

[Bigus Termitius]

Well, your boss sounds like a real jewel.

All the studies I have read said successful transfer rates of pathogens through finely chipped mulch are of very low percentage. If there is a down side here, it is going to be that the chips will improve the growing conditions on your ROW trees and suppress the low weedy vegetation that is competing with the trees for nutrition. So the trees that you are pruning to keep the ROW clear will flourish and require more pruning. You might as well be fertilizing them.

Dave

Job security.

 

[yooper]

You know... (no offense) BUT try to guess why your boss is the boss and you are not.
Lets see your plight. Allright. Everytime I see a new tree planted I feel a twinge of despair for the hard life it is about to endure.
I was busting up some emerald borer real good with the splitter the other day. What a bug! I have to say its gorgeous! Man they were in deep too.
Pine Drive got its name from the black pines planted by the WW 2 works projects. I stay on that street for weeks chewing up dead 40 foot pines. Actually I just fiinshed my rear neighbors place, took out at least 12 that were decemated by the beetles, no not John and Paul the other beatles. which way do you spell beetles again? What in the heck is a beatle anyway?

Dan I love some of posts, You come up with some funny $hit. Ever think that he may not be the boss because he may work for a company like Asplundh and the general formans brother in law needed a job. so he made him a boss. I seen stuff like that all the time when I worked for them.

 

[D Mc]

Hold on, you haven't seen the trees and you never met his boss. He might be right.

I don't need to see the trees to know that that was an inappropriate response to an employee. When answering a question with a response such as "because" might work great with a 2 year old, if you want your employees to be effective and confident in their jobs, you need to give them the knowledge that they require.

I have been a boss. This is a very patience-taxing position. But proper guidance is part of the job.


Dave

 

[Ed Roland]

Well, your boss sounds like a real jewel.

All the studies I have read said successful transfer rates of pathogens through finely chipped mulch are of very low percentage. If there is a down side here, it is going to be that the chips will improve the growing conditions on your ROW trees and suppress the low weedy vegetation that is competing with the trees for nutrition. So the trees that you are pruning to keep the ROW clear will flourish and require more pruning. You might as well be fertilizing them.

Dave

These chips would have to be mixed into the soil to actually be pathogenic.

Dave is right on time here.