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This is a product and service whereby once you
have pruned some big branches off your
favorite family tree, you take some rubbing of
the cut down to your local copper face pruning
sealer.
Using the rubbing as a guide they fashion a
copper face with your favorite emotion, that fits
perfectly
with the wound. For extra close fitting,
they can visit your house and take a plaster
mold.
Take this home and nail it into the trees open
wound, sealing it from boring insects and rain.
Over time the edges will be grown over by bark
and the face itself will go green.
This is a healthy way to add character to trees.
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// sealing it from boring insects // |
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Does it keep out exciting insects, too ? |
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It stops exiting or entering insects. |
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I have a large tree where the core of each exposed prune is a chewed out hole that goes straight to the heart. In some holes, colonies of pillbugs live. I can dollop bitumen over them. But it is not very stylin'. |
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actual silver or actual gold could go well with this also |
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Not gold, it isn't a biocide. It does show good corrosion resistance, but poor resistance to being stolen off the tree by anyone who wants some free gold. |
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Silver does have biocidal properties. |
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I suppose, if you were downwind of an old unscrubbed power
station, you might find yourself unintentionally making herbicidal
copper sulphate to the detriment of your favourite tree. Would a
hug help with that? |
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Copper sulphate is a constituent of a common anti-fungal mixture, named after a hideous mildewy french town where it's used (mostly unsuccessfully) in vast quantities to stop the place rotting away. |
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//...pruned some big branches off your favorite family tree...// |
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The market for copper isn’t exactly dead, either, judging
by the scrappers who rip wires out of walls to get at it. |
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//The market for copper isn’t exactly dead |
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Hmm, teach termites to cling on to their side of the copper, it would help if there were lots of teeny handles on the inward side. |
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NB gold has it's own E number, E175. Not a lot of people know that. |
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Yeah, I'm afraid the scrap pirates will get your work if it's accessible. |
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Any way you could sculpt the cut surface with a CNC tool running a face program and paint it with a copper based substance? Maybe relatives could volunteer a photo for the program derivation. |
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