PLEASE allow me to vent re:16-17 year old boys.
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You can patch up the damage with fruit tree tar. Buy it online under tree bark repair or insect barrier for fruit or decorative trees.
white oak? Be careful for oak wilt ...
You can use white latex caulk, less harmful and messy....and protects all the same....and won't be ugly for more than one season.
I don't see the rant?
Just posted rant
Wifi cut off
My damage is to ash trees, do you recommend the same treatment?
Ash trees...you really don't need to do anything, most trees heal by themselves....
...surprised they have survived the emerald ash borer beetle which have decimated the ash tree population in the midwest.
The latex caulk was recommended to me by an arborist....latex comes from many trees, and is the closest man-made stuff to protect a tree, and will fall off in a season after the tree has repaired itself.
Dude, at the end of the day it’s a tree. No more, no less.
Adds much to our property value...but that pales in comparison to the principle of disrepect.
Home to woodpecker, nuthatches, squirrels, etc. Right outside the bedroom window. It saves us 100's in power bills due to its shade. You'd want to hug it if was yer baby.
Looks exactly like the damage my treeing walking coon hounds do to my trees.
My wifi stopped mid rant!
Had last day of school pool party for son's jr class, as we've done for 3 years. Lotsa work.
New kid, arrogant, a "model-type"who cant leave his hair alone or stop preening. Dumb like Travolta in Welcome Back, Kotter.
Shook my hand with zero squeeze back, walked away 2x as I was talking. Total new guy douche.
Look what he did to our 175-200 yr old prize oak!
Threw garden implements and an axe at and into it.
Calling his dad...gonna pay for an arborist's diagnosis.
It is a property value enhancer. Daniel friggin Boone walked thru this yard!!!
Any advise besides a beheading?
**ALL other kids were awesome! ...smart private school kids, very disciplined a disrespectful. **
Whew. Thanks, frens.
BUT, the old cPTSD guy DID NOT EMERGE!! Hallelujah! That's a win.
Lol, I think my dogs are capable of anything. I’m still pissed they destroyed my salty army hat.
That tree is over 100 ft tall. Nearby, a 235 yr old beech w indian on horseback carved into it.
Lots of history
I live in the woods in indiana respect my trees. Hopefully you can fix it.
Oaks are susceptible to oak wilt, which is a virus carried by a tiny beetle. Once the oak wilt gets into a tree, it can go from oak to oak through the roots. It will wipe the tree out.
Cover the wounds on an oak, with pruning spray, or latex asap. The only safe time to prune an oak is in winter after the first freeze.
Thanks! Yeah, this is one of the oldest tracts of woods around here...I just lucked into it by the grace of God. It's not all "mine"..but 1 acre is and other 2 house's residents are elderly and let' us traipse around their woods, too...
It'll be tomorrow or Monday. Coincidentally, my wife met an arborist about 3 months ago and we're gonna call him Monday
Great advice/knowledge.
AXE ??? Where did the teen get AX ? Was he carring it around ? Horrible so sorry !
I have a basement! Prob 6 axes, hatchets, etc. Its a workshop lol
Hundreds of thing to hurt oneself with
Band jams on other side of basement.
Kid rummaged thru my stuff.
Thanks!
"Teen" is 17.
At 17 I was in college, my own crap apartment, went to grocery on my own, etc. (took laundry to mom lol)
Few of these kids could do it
I’m 19, turn twenty in a couple months. I’m trying to make enough to move out. You need to make $30,000 a year to be able to live above the poverty line in NC. I ditched college. Not for me personally. I’m a smart guy, but I can’t stand learning when it’s not on my own terms. Community college(both online and offline) felt like a prison. Now I work at a local lowes. Luckily they gave me more jobs than I signed up for so I get a lot of experience despite me being only part time. It feels good to know that others have confidence in me when, just a year ago, I was a lazy suicidal kid who didn’t know what to think.
Kudos, fren! Just keep on trucking along, prepare for hurdles, overcome, learn . Rinse and repeat.
Consider trade school,like aircraft mechanic or electrian.......
Omg he " rummaged through" ,,, thst says it all ... between that and what he did to your tree ., animals and people are not off limits in future years if he is not helped , this kid has major problems, waiting to happen , sue the parents hopefully they Get through to their kid ! Money gets people moving !!
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As I said in your other post… This person needs to be held accountable. You need to speak to his parents, and you need to make sure that your kids never have contact with him ever again. This is borderline animal abuse, which leads to sociopath behavior. There needs to be some kind of consequences. You need to stand up to him and his parents. You may be the one person in his life that finally told him enough is enough, this could be a life-changing event for him, and his consequences could lead him to understand that life does have them. Best of luck, and pray for this kid. He needs help. This is definitely a child who is screaming for somebody discipline him.
Plus, his prers6will shame him.
I will accept a sincere, yet semi-groveling, apology. We all make mistakes. His 1st impression though was less than impressive. No eye contact...VERY impt to me.
Whatever it takes… You could be the person to change his life moving forward because nobody else is stood up to him. Not even his own parents. God may have allowed this to happen, so you can be the person to make a difference in his life. Thank you for doing that for him. Because you need somebody. I need somebody to show him what a man is supposed to be. And a man doesn’t throw objects at trees. Like a tiny child
Amen.