I was wondering if anyone else has seen one of these? For lack of another description, I guess this unique bearing tree sign could be called a ÛÏsashÛ, like the ones worn by glamorous beauty pageant contestants:
This is on a juniper tree blazed and scribed about 140 years ago. The top of the tree fell over, hiding the blaze and sign in a dense tangle of branches:
That is cool.
Dave Karoly, post: 363926, member: 94 wrote: That is cool.
The Texas Beauty Queen?
B-) :-S
RADAR, post: 363937, member: 413 wrote: The Texas Beauty Queen?
B-) :-S
from Duck Soup (1933):
Prosecutor: Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
Chicolini: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
Prosecutor: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
Chicolini: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!
I like the idea of little aluminum tags, on Witness trees. I can see the following protocol with them:
Have a thousand of those little tags made.
Scrape tree down 1/2 way through the cambium layer. on a small spot, about 1-2" wide, and 6" tall, facing the corner.
Using an aluminum nail, nail one end of the aluminum tag to the tree, so that it will grow around it.
Now, as the tree grows, it covers the nail, and slowly covers the aluminum tag, and with a tag that was 4" long, it could grow about 3.5" out, or 7" increase in diameter, and still have the tail of this aluminum tag sticking out.
Seems to have some utility. I like leaving footsteps.
N
Mike - That is very cool. I have never seen anything like it. My guess would be that a forester, private surveyor or county surveyor had them made up and used them sometime in the past. You obviously have never seen any others in that area? I would guess it was a regional thing and there are probably more of them in that area.
You always have something new and interesting.
Kurt
Nate The Surveyor, post: 363966, member: 291 wrote: I like the idea of little aluminum tags, on Witness trees. I can see the following protocol with them:
Have a thousand of those little tags made.
Scrape tree down 1/2 way through the cambium layer. on a small spot, about 1-2" wide, and 6" tall, facing the corner.
Using an aluminum nail, nail one end of the aluminum tag to the tree, so that it will grow around it.
Now, as the tree grows, it covers the nail, and slowly covers the aluminum tag, and with a tag that was 4" long, it could grow about 3.5" out, or 7" increase in diameter, and still have the tail of this aluminum tag sticking out.
Seems to have some utility. I like leaving footsteps.
N
From Daryl Moistner's pics, an unintentional execution of Nate's idea. Also, painted (not aluminum) BT sashes:
BajaOR, post: 363987, member: 9139 wrote: not aluminum
If those are the BT tags we always used -- provided by USFS -- they're painted aluminum.