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No matter how you stuff or baffle the collars, sap circulation will suffer. When a small tree blows over, you can pull it erect with a rope and prop it there temporarily, to keep its roots underground, with a padded board nailed atop a post. To fix it permanently erect, don't use the time-honored makeshift of guy wires passed through hose. Put a screw hook or eyebolt into the trunk about halfway up and run a cable down at forty-five degrees to a "dead man" buried in the ground. This is a heavy pipe or post, not driven at a slant but laid horizontally at the bottom of a yard-deep "grave," which you dig at right angles to the trunk on the windward side. Pass the cable to the "dead man" through a slanting hole which you poke with your punch-bar, to avoid loosening the earth between tree and grave. (See Fig- 13) Once they have been blown over, resurrected trees are likely to go down again if another blow comes before they are securely rerooted. To guard against this, in case the next gale should come from a new angle, put in two or three cables to buried anchors. |
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