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From: "Jim Lewis"
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...What I need to know is how much "live" wood do I need to leave
for safe fluid transport? I'd like the hollow to be as
thin-walled as possible.
Jim Lewis
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I dunno about Liquidambar, but I had a Chinese elm (sold recently) that I
completely hollowed out after finding the entire trunk body to be rotten.
The trunk was about 3" or 4" in diameter and no portion of the trunk wall
was more than 1/4" thick. The tree was quite healthy and I had it like this
for 3 or 4 years with no sign of weakening. But U. parviflora are tough as
nails...

Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
www.andyrutledge.com/
zone 8, Texas

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