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Preventing wood rot in trees--Liquid copper fungicide
Comments (30)Whaas: Yes, pines and spruces can exude sap, but that sap is not enough to cover large wounds, and even if it were, it would not prevent rot. Pine sap can for a time can create a barrier that can delay fungal infections, but it is not itself a fungicide. In fact, I have had a lot of experience with large wounds to both pines and Norway spruce trees--the fungal rots enter these trees faster than in most, and the rot spreads very, very fast. Before I hit on the liquid copper fungicide, I experimented with Captan, and with Bordeaux mixture. With both I saw fungal fruiting bodies within two years--maybe just 1.5 years. But, if one prunes off smaller side branches from pines and spruces, there is virtually no risk of fungal rot entering those kinds of cuts. With red pines especially, the cut surface is impregnated with pitch, and is very, very rot resistant. But this is not the kind of situation I am recommending this fungicide treatment for. The cuts I made on about a dozen white pines, for example, were to remove 1/2 of a forked tree, and the cuts were generally about 8" by 12". My forester who saw what I had done said that I was wasting my time trying to save such trees. Hah! He should see them now. White pines with a tight "V" shaped fork will eventually split in storms about 90% of the time, hence my acting to save them. Every one of the trees I cut this way about 27 years ago is now a beautiful, straight white pine tree, 100 feet tall, and as healthy as any tree can be. I have also had a few white pine and spruce trees clawed by bears, leaving large areas with the bark removed. I have treated these trees also, and no rot has appeared in these either. With the spruce, sap did cover a part of the damaged areas. With the white pine, sap actually covered very little. But, even had the sap covered these areas, there would have been a delay of just three, or maybe up to 5 years--not nearly enough time for the callus to cover the wounds. --Spruce...See MoreDesperately need answer on stock liquidation!
Comments (6)My first question is are you on this account? If you are than you can call and have it liquidated and a check sent to you if they have not frozen the account at his or your request. The firms must follow orders given by the court or the person(s) on the account. If I have a joint account and my husband calls to liquidate than they will take an order from him because he is on the account. If the account is in my husbands name than I would send them a copy of the divorc degree stating the name change. You will have to fill out new paperwork to open an account for it to be put into. If these accounts are tax sheltered than you are dealing with a totally different sitituion. You will need to roll the money over. Make sure you find out if it is a tax sheltered account. It should be somewhere on the statement. If it is in both of your names it is not a tax sheltered account like an IRA ect. Please be more specific in your relpy to my response and I will tell you exactly what you need to do as I have had to due this with both of these firms with my divorce. About the fees. The firms can only liquidate based on the court order or the people on the account. They cannot do what ever they want. I would look at your cost basis on each of these stocks and see if you really want to sell them or TRANSFER them. I strongly suggest transferring them if they are way down from what you bot them. Call the offices and speak to your advisor. Tell them you want to open an account and what the sititution is. They should give you advice on all of this....See MoreStick Welding and Thin Metal Questions
Comments (46)I didn't mean to express the opinion that oxy-fuel welding is obsolete, just passing on the message we got in class. And I think the message was that oxy welding is simply not used much any more in industrial production welding. It's just not efficient enough to compete with electric methods. For home stuff or non-production work of course it's still in use and probably will be for a very long time. I was somewhat disappointed oxy-fuel welding wasn't taught in the summer welding class I took, but then we covered over six welding methods in six weeks so the schedule was packed. These methods included: stick, flux, mig, TIG, oxy-cutting, plasma cutting, carbon-arc cutting. I spent one week each (12 hrs/week) on stick, flux, and MIG, and three weeks on TIG. I was told that if I had already known how to gas weld, that TIG would come easier. So that was a real challenge. I was able to produce a passable bead on steel but aluminum and stainless kind of eluded me. Although I think that with more practice and better settings I could have nailed those as well. For my home use, I think an AC/DC stick unit, as well as a MIG/Flux unit, would be best. I've got a small MAPP/OXY setup, which was good for some nickel brazing, and cutting....See MoreJB Weld on ABS drainpipe
Comments (8)It never ceases to amaze me as to how many uses some people seem to find for JB weld. Personally, I have never purchased a container of JB Weld so perhaps I am missing out on one of lifes miracles however, Over the years I have been called upon to repair problems that were at one time or another repaired with JB Weld or any number of other Epoxies, glues or tape of one sort or another. I find it most interesting to see where people have used one of those products to repair a sink tailpiece or P-trap, especially when one considers that you can purchase a new tailpiece or P-trap for about half the cost of a package of JB Weld. In regard to the use of JB Weld on a PVC or ABS DWV (drain, waste &Vent) pipe it must be remembered that both PVC and ABS have a very high co-efficient of thermal expansion and even though the JB Weld repair may seem ok at the time of repair or for a short period thereafter, the question is, can you stake your professional reputation on the fact that it will hold up for the life of the pipe, and not eventually break its adhesive bond from physical changes in pipe wall dimension? Keep in mind that even though the pipe is within the climate controlled portion of the structure nonetheless there are constantly air currents in the pipe which could draw in triple digit air in mid summer or sub-zero air in mid winter which would radically effect the pipe dimension. The prescribed method of repairing the pipe is to cut out the damaged section and replace it however if the damage is simply a minor hole or two inadvertently drilled into the pipe wall in a very close proximity it would seem silly to cut a major chunk of pipe out. In this case, if the three holes in question were only effecting a 3 or 4 linear inch section of the pipe which could be easily covered with a coupling the proper method would be to cut the pipe at a point where the coupling could cover all the damage, then shift one section of the pipe to the side and slip a "Repair Coupling" or a Fernco coupling on one section of the pipe, realign the pipes then apply primer and glue and slid the repair coupling into place or simply slide the Fernco into place and tighten the band clamps. NOTE: A common PVC or ABS coupling has a raised depth stop midway through the coupling to insure that both pipes are installed to the proper depth during installation. A "Repair Coupling" has no internal stop so it can easily be slid on one pipe, then when the pipes are realigned it can be slid back to the final position. Although definitely not code approved, in a worst case scenario I might be tempted to cut a repair coupling in half and glue it in place as was mentioned above, however I would also place a stainless steel band clamp around it. It was also mentioned above that they didnÂt think the problem was too serious because there was no "Stinky odor" coming from the pipe. Do not be lulled into believing there is no sewer gas leak because you canÂt smell it. Of the four principal gases that make up sewer gas, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen-sulfide, the first three are odorless asphyxiates. The fourth gas, hydrogen sulfide has a very strong rotten egg odor however in elevated concentrations it also has the capacity to quickly anesthetize the olfactory nerve thereby making further detection by smell impossible. In addition, both hydrogen sulfide and methane are flammable and in higher concentrations methane is explosive. (Methane is the base component of natural gas, in fact, in Michigan there is a commercial dairy operation that has installed digesters to convert the manure from their dairy herd into methane fuel to power engine driven generators to power the whole farm & dairy operation, and Windex has now tapped the methane gases from a nearby landfill to power one of their factories). As if these facts are not problematic enough, it must also be mentioned that some of these gases are lighter than air while others are heavier than air, therefore it is quite common for sewer gas to build up in a structure, but because of the specific gravity of the gases they tend to stratify near the floor or the ceiling and can go undetected for a long period of time. The bottom line, do not take any chances with leaks or dry traps in a DWV system....See Moredustynight
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