Some jerk shot my tree!

[smokeythecat]

Now, trees in the middle of a well groomed lawn, as we ALL know, look a lot like deer. Some dumbbell put a bullet in it about 7' off the ground, due to the rain, the sap is pouring out of the hole. It's a 70' tall thornless honey locust.

Hope it feels better soon. Hope I don't catch the morons shooting this close to a house or they're going to have a police visit.

 

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[Honest Samuel]

Be happy that you or your family members or pets did not get shot. Hope for the best for the tree.

 

[hvacker]

Put a large screw in the hole and it should quit bleeding soon.

 

[smokeythecat]

There were so many shots in the valley here Thanksgiving night, I was almost at the point of panic. Then it got dark.

 

[kcm]

Put a large screw in the hole and it should quit bleeding soon.

Better than a screw, try to find a piece of honey locust wood, make a peg the size of the hole, hammer it in and trim off the excess. The tree will grow around it as though it is a dead limb.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I had one like that. It was in the middle of my sheep pasture!

Some bozo shot down the 15' wide driveway beside my barn and along the garden fence from the road about 40 yards and dead-centered the tree. Happily no sheep were injured.

I'd either drive a peg as kcm suggested or a squirt of silicone caulk, or a dallop of roof asphalt. The tree will absorb the wound.

 

[against the wind]

I thought for a minute that you lived in NYC.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Nope. One of the majority of New York State red counties hundreds of miles from NYC (happily).

This part of NY


This is ma'barn.

 

[against the wind]

Nope. One of the majority of New York State red counties hundreds of miles from NYC (happily).

This part of NY
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This is ma'barn.

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Actually, I was responding to smokeythecat, but you do live in a pretty neighborhood.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Time to practice a little Botany put a live branch from another type of tree in the hole so it grafts to the tree with the hole and you can have a unique tree in your yard.