Nail damage a tree?
Woody Worker
raised for twenty years. Will one or two nails into the side of the tree
damage it seriously enough to worry about? Thanks.
Sophia
It won't damage it at all.
Tim in elora
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tom kan pa
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> I just built a squirrel feeder. I want to nail it to an oak tree that I have
> raised for twenty years. Will one or two nails into the side of the tree
NO
Victor
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C. A. Owens
Woody Worker wrote:
> I just built a squirrel feeder. I want to nail it to an oak tree that I have
> raised for twenty years. Will one or two nails into the side of the tree
> damage it seriously enough to worry about? Thanks.
No.
Chris Owens
BeeCrofter
nails 8d =2-1/2 "
These you could probably use for bone surgery.
Shamrock
always been to tie my birdhouses / feeders to branchs. Why punch a hole in the
tree ??
Larry
Spunkie199
>raised for twenty years. Will one or two nails into the side of the tree
>damage it seriously enough to worry about? Thanks.
>
saw kept hitting on something.
so my husband kept moving the cut up and down, to cut threw the tree.
what we found out after the tree came down was a chain and padlock inside
the tree.
how or why it got there, we don't know. but the tree just grew around it.
so i really don't think a few nail will hurt it.
and the chain and padlock may have killed the tree, but the metal was 5"
inside the tree.
so it took a long time for it to die.
z/5
kathy lower south east MI
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than to look behind and regret.
Mike
I understand it, the life of the tree is in the layer under the bark, which
is why, if you girdle a tree, it generally dies.
About the nail question. I would not expect the nail to produce permanent
injury to the tree, but if the tree ever gets cut and sent to a mill, I
could cause serious injury, or worse, to someone in the mill. Think about
that.
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| I just built a squirrel feeder. I want to nail it to an oak tree that I
have
| raised for twenty years. Will one or two nails into the side of the tree
| damage it seriously enough to worry about? Thanks.
I have several fine old trees on my property, more than once have pulled
80-100 year old nails out of them.
Stephen M. Henning
> I have several fine old trees on my property, more than once have pulled
> 80-100 year old nails out of them.
Now pulling the nail out can damage the tree. It leaves it open to
infection. The tree would be healthier with the nail in place. I have
heard that you can kill a tree by driving copper nails into it. I don't
know where one gets copper nails.
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Spunkie199
>heard that you can kill a tree by driving copper nails into it. I don't
>know where one gets copper nails.
>
>
i tried to kill a stump that way. [still sending out branches]
the only copper nails i found were about 1" long. and realized i would have
to use the 300 nail in the box to even start to do serious damage, and since
in later years, i might have it cut down, when redoing the fence, deceided
not to put that many nails in the stump.
would it kill a tree? never got that far.