<Oh my goodness. Do hope there NO was damage to your home. Are you going to
be creative with it or just saw it up?>
Luckily, no damage, Jeffrey. I'll be creative with the bottom of the stump
now lying horizontally - too big & hard to easily cut up & move. The rest
I'm donating as "braaihout" (barbecue wood) to whoever wants it - mainly my
garden help. They still like to cook outdoors on open fires. I find it
easier to buy charcoal.
<Shame to lose the tree - did you get fruit from it? Nice garden, too.>
Not a fruit tree, Bob. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopane
A very hard lowveld tree. Elephants chew the bark off twiglets - a type of
ellie-gum? Kudus browse new leaves. Mopani worms (larvae of a species of
Emperor Moth) eat them & the locals harvest & eat the worms each summer.
The trees get big (like this one) with adequate water but are more usually
found as mopani scrub, invading the grasslands, only curbed by hot
veldfires.
This tree was one of a pair growing very close together. It's loss has
certainly changed the landscape of our largely indigenous, tropical garden.
I'm hoping to finish the job tomorrow but it may drift into a third day. The
contractors wanted too much so I bought 2.2KW electric chainsaw.
Alan
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