I'll call a few on Monday. Plans have changed so it's OK if the asphalt gets torn up.

If that were the case it'd be out by now. What you don't see is a huge bulge in the asphalt on the opposite side and at 2 o'clock if you are looking at 6 here.

New question, maybe Baz can answer. Neighbor asked me to cut some big dead branches off his huge ancient apple tree. These branches could have been used in any horror movie, black and dead and big but scraggly. This was pretty scary 20 feet up but took off 5 big ones and tree looks so much better now. New chain worked great.

Do you have to seal the cut with anything? Here's one.

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My 2 cents....

No sealant required, Shaun.

The tree itself will scab over those cuts.

Another small factor to also consider.....on any food bearing plant/tree if you can stay away from any chemical products you're always better off.

Thanks Baz, good to know. It is strange how some branches on this tree were completely dead and others fine. There is a green lichen growing on it. Two of the bigger branch cuts, 6" or so, looked like it was being eaten from the inside out.

Dynomite :)

people used to seal cuts, but it's out of favor now

maybe the USFS Forestry Science Lab knows why>>?

I've dabbed olive oil onto a deep gash in a shrub. Some big branch got randomly torn off.

I've heard of plastidip and other sealants being used, but yeah natural is always better.
Maybe a shot of fungalcide if that is an issue.

Seems to be doing okay so far. YMMV.

Asphalt is usually 4" deep.

Once the roots are dead you might be able to flatten it out with a tamp and apply sealer.
This works with a few inches.

Or dig/chisel out a trench with the roots underneath, get a few bags of petroleum-based torch down filler from a box store, tamp flat and use flame, re-seal the surface.

Do you ever sleep?

i just removed one.
dug around the root, best i could, then sacrificed a sawz - all blade.
first i had to wedge up a larger-than-average sidewalk slab - that was interesting

The idea of using a sawzall or anything with a cord has never crossed my mind before this thread :D.

.... and yes, I've heard of batteries before ;)

But still....

I sleep plenty I just don't rest. If I sit down for more than an hour I can feel myself getting older. I sacrifice a little aging for going to the movies but I think it's worth it and in some ways experiencing the wonder of cinema keeps me young so it probably nets out that I'm only slightly older after seeing a movie. A great movie I might even be younger, will have to test that.

there's just so much to do in life, how anyone can not want to do it all is beyond me.

On a fruit tree I would paint the cut parts if diseased. I would also want to know what killed it.

Typically you prune fruit trees when dormant, may not be true on dead wood. Clean your cutting implements well after cutting the black stuff. If it is fireblight, you may want to avoid letting dead stuff rub on alive stuff

The man knows of what he speaks. He grows wonderful grapefruit.

Since we're beating a dead horse, how about a turbo-charged waste oil stump burner?:

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now that looks like fun!

Three places didn't want to do it. One guy just left, $300. Sold! Definitely worth $300 to have it gone. Hopefully end of next week or early following.

or you could cerakote the stump and put a titanium plated ornament on it

it's got to go!