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I was top working a couple higher branches on a third leaf tree and should have brought a small step ladder...I bled like a hog. Probably messed the grafts up.
I was top working a couple higher branches on a third leaf tree and should have brought a small step ladder...I bled like a hog. Probably messed the grafts up.
Ya.... I can relate - I cut a stick of scion off of a tree and was going to field graft it to a sucker coming off the base of the trunk. Made the first whip cut on the scion and did the same thing - right into my thumb. The part that really sucked was as I was dripping blood everywhere I knelt down and made the cut on the sucker only to find that it was dead wood. Go figure...
I cut myself in the shop last fall bad enough that I figured after calling my SIL that is a nurse that I should go to the doctor for stitches the next day. Wrapped it well in paper towels and electric tape, when I walked into the doctors office the next day everyone working there from the receptionist to the nurse knew right away what I had done. Said they figured guys with cuts kept the duct and electric tape companies in business!
Punched out 100 grafts tonight with nary scratch... but I had med truck on stand-by.....
I've got a dozen short pieces of scion left over that Im going to field graft - leftovers from my grin order and tonight's grafting, then I too am done,... DONE for the year.