Sounds like its worth a try.....I have tried the 170 degrees for 1 hour and he core didn't budge...
Gary On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Ryan McEwan wrote: > My friend Jyh-min, now a professor in Taiwan, had an interesting > method. He would take a jammed borer and turn if a few turns into a > nearby tree with really "fluffy" bark. Like a big fluffy white > oak. He would not even go into the wood, just into the bark. It > would push the jammed part back, and the bark itself sort of > crumbles so is no problem. I have not really tried this myself, but > he thought it worked well.... > > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Gary A. Beluzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Thanks Lee, I was actually going to try and core another tree to push > out the first one. Drilling, baking, etc doesn't sound like a good > idea but at this point I will try anything to clean out my borers. > > Gary > On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Lee Frelich wrote: > > > > > Gary: > > > > I usually knock it out with the rod from a gun cleaning kit (as long > > as you > > NEVER let the metal rod touch the tip of the borer). Remember the > > inside of > > the tube gets narrower towards the tip, so its easier to push it out > > going > > the other way (i.e. from the tip, pushing the stuck core towards the > > wider > > part of the tube). If there is room in the tip of the corer to get > > started > > in another tree, you can also core another tree and push it out that > > way. > > Diffuse porous hardwood species work best. > > > > It sounds like you cored a partially rotted tree, so the spongy wood > > is > > released from the pressure caused by the weight of the tree, and it > > expands > > inside the corer. Its amazing how hard rotted wood can push against > > the > > wall of the corer and get stuck in there. > > > > Pieces of core stuck in the corer were a daily occurrence during > > field work > > for my Ph.D. > > > > Lee > > > > At 09:23 PM 11/19/2008, you wrote: > >> ENTS: > >> > >> What is the best way to remove a particularly stubborn, immovable > >> tree > >> core from an incremental borer, nothing seems to work. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> Gary > >> On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Edward Frank wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ryan McEwan > The University of Dayton > http://udbiology.com/content.php?id=1664 > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
