Tree Question.

[mnahrgang (Mark Nahrgang, C.R.I.)]

@jhugenroth

They’ve always been aROUND

http://www.larsonhardware.com/prod/staple-diamond-point.html

Joe, I was referring to the hole it would make, you Smarty Alec :D. That would make a straight line, same as a flat staple. Nails have a round head, and would leave a round hole.

Anyway this was a fun thread. See ya, got a grand baby to go play with.

[klott (Kenneth Lott, 001236461)]

Duffy lives where there are no trees, so any peckers that like wood, are probably rare indeed.

[Erol_Kartal]

@dduffy

This is a great thread, nothing really makes any difference of who is right, or who is wrong, until Erol sits there with his camera like he’s doing a special for the National Geographic Society----:lol:

I thought so too…until I just noticed that my clean, joking response to yours has been deleted!

[dduffy (Dale Duffy)]

@klott

Duffy lives where there are no trees, so any peckers that like wood, are probably rare indeed.

Ken,

The Woodpeckers are into Stucco here, that’s there gig in the Southwest…odd Birds indeed—

They peck (bigger) holes in stucco than are already in the walls to reach the Scorpions, Tarantulas, Black Widows, Brown Recluse, etc, etc—:shock:

My experience with nails, staples, barbed wire, chicken wire, embedded in trees comes from northern Arizona, where there are large trees (even Cedar) and ranches…the ranchers would use a tree to staple fence too instead of driving a post if there was one in the fence route, and I have cut down many with rust oozing out of the side just like Erol’s picture and destroyed a chain or two on the saw (in the past)—

[jkogel (John Kogel)]

You’re all wrong, it was a sapsucker. http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/regions/lawnandgarden/SapsuckerDamage.pdf

Although they don’t usually go for cedar sap around here. Woodpeckers do so drill into cedar. The bugs would be in the sap layer under the bark, not in the heartwood unless it is rotten. And yeah, cedar does go rotten, usually from root rot. They go hollow from the inside.

Dale, why would you need that many staples to hold up your fence, trying to keep the goats in?

John Kogel
www.allsafehome.ca

[dduffy (Dale Duffy)]

@jkogel

Dale, why would you need that many staples to hold up your fence, trying to keep the goats in?

John Kogel
www.allsafehome.ca

Nope…Ain’t a “One Tooth Yellow Belly SapSucker”

John…I know a “One Tooth Yellow Belly SapSucker” Hole when I see one----:lol:—](,)—:lol:—](,)](*,)—:lol:

Erol better get his azz back to that tree with the cam, this is crazy----:lol:—:lol:

And check on my Goats too Erol—:lol:—:margarit:

[klott (Kenneth Lott, 001236461)]

@dduffy

Ken,

The Woodpeckers are into Stucco here, that’s there gig in the Southwest…odd Birds indeed—

They peck (bigger) holes in stucco than are already in the walls to reach the Scorpions, Tarantulas, Black Widows, Brown Recluse, etc, etc—:shock:

My experience with nails, staples, barbed wire, chicken wire, embedded in trees comes from northern Arizona, where there are large trees (even Cedar) and ranches…the ranchers would use a tree to staple fence too instead of driving a post if there was one in the fence route, and I have cut down many with rust oozing out of the side just like Erol’s picture and destroyed a chain or two on the saw (in the past)—

Tarantula’s? :shock: If you’ve got Woodpeckers that mess with them, I would let them have any tree they want!

[jkogel (John Kogel)]

@mnahrgang

I’ve never seen a round staple.

Mark, just for you, some round fencing staples. The rodent excreta and rusty nail provided for size reference. BTW, you are right, it was a sapsucker, kind of a woodpecker.

[ldapkus (Linas Dapkus, CMI)]

@jkogel

You’re all wrong, it was a sapsucker. http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/regions/lawnandgarden/SapsuckerDamage.pdf

Although they don’t usually go for cedar sap around here. Woodpeckers do so drill into cedar. The bugs would be in the sap layer under the bark, not in the heartwood unless it is rotten. And yeah, cedar does go rotten, usually from root rot. They go hollow from the inside.

Dale, why would you need that many staples to hold up your fence, trying to keep the goats in?

John Kogel
www.allsafehome.ca

Looks like a German Shepard in the photo.

[mnahrgang (Mark Nahrgang, C.R.I.)]

@jkogel

Mark, just for you, some round fencing staples. The rodent excreta and rusty nail provided for size reference. BTW, you are right, it was a sapsucker, kind of a woodpecker.

That’s funny!