Thumbs up for Grafting!

[H20fwler]

Every dang year........................

 

[Charles Clear]

I got a good one this year too! Wounds heal, just like our grafts!

 

[cavey]

I got my annual cut/blood letting in on the first one I tried this year! You would think by now I wouldn't be surprised -

 

[H20fwler]

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.

 

[Native Hunter]

Looks like you did a good job taping your thumb back on.... That's better than leaving it laying in the field.....

 

[cavey]

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...

 

[mikmaze]

I think you taped over the chip bud too much, can't see the bud ya grafted in there between the electrical tape..........

 

[Turkey Creek]

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!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

TC - ^^^^ As an electrician, I keep a roll of white electrical tape just for wrapping cuts !! True. I've patched myself on several occasions.

 

[sandbur]

Should I be looking at whip and tongue or cleft graft for this one?

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[Turkey Creek]

Cleft all the way!

 

[cavey]

Should I be looking at whip and tongue or cleft graft for this one?

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I dont know which to choose for you --- but, you only got 3 more chances to get it right !!!

 

[sandbur]

Should I be looking at whip and tongue or cleft graft for this one?

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I dont know which to choose for you --- but, you only got 3 more chances to get it right !!!

Wrong, I got nine more chances!


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[sandbur]

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[Bowsnbucks]

Somebody hide Bur's knives !! ^^^^^

 

[sandbur]

Somebody hide Bur's knives !! ^^^^^

I ‘ m done for this year.


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[cavey]

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.