Somebody posted this to my facebook timeline, and I thought it was worth sharing here. Please don't do this.
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/...-Birch-tapping
Somebody posted this to my facebook timeline, and I thought it was worth sharing here. Please don't do this.
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/...-Birch-tapping
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Yeh I read that on facebook too. cant really see why a drill does it but a knife puncture basically left open to the air doesn't?
If there are no women around and a man says something, is he still wrong?
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Well, I'll tell 'ya one thing, they don't use augers to collect sap from the Sugar Maples here, just simple aluminum taps...the blade portion is lightly hammered in no deeper than 5 cm into the tree itself.
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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~ Cody Lundin
So what is the consensus, does using a knife do any long term damage?
I always thought it was ok.
I just look at the ancient birch around camp grounds here. The look like they have been trough a couple of wars. bark missing in patches, nails hammered in, broken branches etc...and they still live. The same trees where the same when I was a kid.
Victory awaits the one, that has everything in order - luck we call it
Defeat is an absolute consequense for the one that have neglected to do the necessary preparations - bad luck we call it
(Roald Amundsen)
Bumbling Bushcraft on Youtube
Nordisk Bushcraft - The Nordic bushcraft blog and forum
Nonetheless shared to my french friends ...
English isn't my mother tongue so pliz correct me if i'm wrong, thx !
Title to that thread should read "Poor skills kills trees". Dude killed the trees with his ignorance, not the tapping.
It would be good to know how the birch trees he didn't tap were. just to rule out the possibility of another cause of death. If all the trees were in the same area then even 100% mortality isn't implausible over a ten year period.