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Old 29-07-2010, 03:24 PM posted to misc.consumers.house,alt.home.lawn.garden,alt.home.repair
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Default Using PL-Premium (construction adhesive) to fill holes in treetrunks

On Jul 29, 8:54*am, Sum Guy wrote:
ransley wrote:
Moisture could not be trapped - this is a vertical surface we're
talking about - roughly a circle about 3" diameter.


what insect makes a hole 3"


The exposed inner heart-wood of the tree has a circular profile and is
3" in diameter, and it oriented vertically with respect to the ground.
This is where a secondary trunk had been, which was cut maybe 2 or 3
years ago.

This circular area was sprayed with pruning paint last year. *The
surface was solid and intact at that time. *The bark is growing nicely
around the perimiter of this area (this is a silver maple). *I have two
such similar cuts on a sugar maple - the exposed area was even larger (4
or 5") and painted them soon after the cut was made. *This was about 5
years ago. *They are 75% covered over now by the growing bark, and they
remained solid (no rot, holes, fissures developing in them).

Getting back to the silver maple, at some point this year I noticed the
appearance of some cracks or voids on the cut surface along with what
looked like sawdust shavings around the crack. *Yesterday I shoved the
plastic dispensing nozzle of a tube of PL Premium deep into the main
crack (it went in all the way - I wasn't expecting that) and I pumped
the crack full of glue.


Seems like that would be ok. It's going to be a weak spot even after
the tree grows over it. But there's nothing you can do about that.