The 2024 Yamadori/Collecting Thread

[circledisk]

Got some trees flagged for future collection. Several Utahs and a couple of pinyon pines.
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wow those are incredible. I wish I had material like that near me.

 

[The Barber]

Not 100 percent sure of what this one is but I believe it is basswood, collected it about a week ago, don't think I posted it.

 

[Cajunrider]

After a few sessions of heavy use here is what I found.

1. The Milwaukee AX 12" 5 TPI Wrecker blade is stout and can withstand being jabbed into the ground. However, the carbide pieces of the first two teeth broke off. I guess the weld wasn't strong enough to deal with being the jabbing tip. Other than that the saw blade holds up well enough. I still have not used it long enough to make statement on durability. The other drawback that I have is that the teeth tend to fill up when cutting trees with too much sap. If you see smoke/steam coming from the saw blade, be ready for spending a few minutes to clear debris out of the teeth.
2. The Milwaukee AX 12" 3 TPI pruning blade is too thin to be jabbed into hard ground. It is OK for jabbing into the mud for digging swamp trees. They are great for pruning cuts, but the low teeth count means the blade can grab your bonsai and shake it to pieces if you are not careful. However, if you want to use it to cut down big branches and even trees, this is the blade for you.

Spoken too soon. The blade broke right inside the blade holder. That has only happened to me before with Harbor Freight blades but never with the Lennox blades. Milwaukee not as good as Lennox? What a disappointment! The carbide teeth were nice but the blade is useless now.
On to another subject, I went to the swamp, transplanted 2 BCs and collected 2 BCs. One of them is weird because it grew right in between a lot of willows. It will be my first BC sumo attempt. Pics to come later.

 

[Cajunrider]

Spoken too soon. The blade broke right inside the blade holder. That has only happened to me before with Harbor Freight blades but never with the Lennox blades. Milwaukee not as good as Lennox? What a disappointment! The carbide teeth were nice but the blade is useless now.
On to another subject, I went to the swamp, transplanted 2 BCs and collected 2 BCs. One of them is weird because it grew right in between a lot of willows. It will be my first BC sumo attempt. Pics to come later.

Here is a funny bit. The saw blade fell off the saw, went in between my wader and my clothes. It was still warm enough to burn my left calf a little. There I was in the swamp with water up to my thigh and "shaking a leg". What a sight that was. Too bad I couldn't see myself.

BTW I misspelled Lenox saw blades as Lennox. Somehow that extra "n" was in my head

 

[Cajunrider]

Sumo

 

[Damart81]

Sumo
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Nice find, was this one budding at all?

 

[Cajunrider]

Nice find, was this one budding at all?

That was this morning. We will know in 2-3 weeks.

 

[Damart81]

Found these two last week, they were budding already but the buds were too high to keep on during transporting. Hoping they bounce back.

 

[Cajunrider]

Found these two last week, they were budding already but the buds were too high to keep on during transporting. Hoping they bounce back.

They will.

 

[Cajunrider]

Broken down by bulldozer, split, and twisted. Let’s hope this tree survive.
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Update

 

[BrianBay9]

My daughter and son-in-law wanted to get rid of a Quercus suber that was falling into their fence. I obliged.


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I found out why it was falling into the fence. The area is kept way too wet. The tree was trying to stand up to the wind, while standing in essentially soupy sand. Not the easiest dig, but it had to come out.


Three-yr-old for scale. The trunk I took certainly weighed more than the three-yr-old.

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Home and in a pot with mostly pumice. Will it survive? Can I make anything of it? Time will tell.

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So, about six weeks later and we've got buds on this trunk. No guarantee, of course, but definitely a prerequisite for living on......

 

[The Barber]

So, about six weeks later and we've got buds on this trunk. No guarantee, of course, but definitely a prerequisite for living on......
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Hope it survives for ya, why oaks have to be so finicky is beyond my comprehension.

 

[Cajunrider]

Went to the swamp. Planted 50 BCs along the bank of a big pond. Cut down 5 willows and collected 3 BC. It was a good day work.

 

[Cajunrider]

Sumo
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The front side has 4 strong roots and the back side only has one plus a bunch of smaller roots. When the tree has recovered from collection and is growing well, I am thinking about doing root splits on all the big roots.

 

[The Barber]

Honeysuckle branches are probably a ft long already, and thickening up fast.

This collected red maple opened up as well. Nice seeing yamadori break dormancy!

 

[Cajunrider]

After last night sleep, I discovered that I have a mild strain in my left wrist. That's gonna put a damper on my BC replanting in the marsh.
Thinking back, I know exactly when that happened. I tried to pull out a small 1" caliper BC straight up from the mud.

 

[Cajunrider]

The 2024 class of large collected BC’s are matriculating
I intend to keep most of these for my own development. The backyard of the house in PA will have a swamp corner with a Japanese garden design when I am done.

 

[Cajunrider]

Anti- collection
I can imagine the bank full of BCs years from now.

 

[snowman04]

The 2024 class of large collected BC’s are matriculating
I intend to keep most of these for my own development. The backyard of the house in PA will have a swamp corner with a Japanese garden design when I am done.
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Don't take mine to PA!!! Send it to MI...

 

[Barbells and bonsai]

The 2024 class of large collected BC’s are matriculating
I intend to keep most of these for my own development. The backyard of the house in PA will have a swamp corner with a Japanese garden design when I am done.
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Okay, I looked but couldn’t find a definition besides photosynthesis.

What is matriculation?