Yea, the tree looked fine. Well, aside from being dead anyway :^D Looked like it died after handling rope situation. I might try milling some of it. If I get to it before the boss moves the stuff(good likelihood), it might be interesting to see what it looks like inside. Unfortunately, I...
I don't know exactly how it works. The two lines of thought I had was choking the cambium will kill the tree, or the tree builds a new cambium layer when it grows over the rope. Maybe if the tree can tough it out long enough, it'll survive the choke?
That spruce I took down yesterday had two ropes it in. The lower rope I was able to recover, and now have a decent beater rope for tying things down. The upper rope was completely grown over aside from part of the knot. My boss asked me if I thought that's what killed the tree. I said "No, but...
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