How To Kill A Tree Copper Nail

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The Ranger has been involved in many neighbor disputes over copse and hedges. Copse and hedges are usually on boundaries, you see, and and then that's where the trouble starts. Information technology's very easy to underestimate the fury, rage and pain that courses through such seemingly tempest-in-teacup matters. On at least ii occasions in contempo times people have died over these disputes, one of these being shot past his neighbour. And then, non trifling matters.

What the protagonists almost invariably fail to recognise when they come up to the Ranger for some assist is that the authorities will rarely have i side or the other – in fact, they are more than interested in the tree itself, considering it is the tree which has amenity for the balance of usa. What is one person'south nuisance is a cute addition to the mural for many others. So, in many cases, the Ranger finds himself defending non the harassed householder, nor the hysterical neighbor, simply the trees.

Copper nails

How many times has the Ranger heard this one? 'Dear Ranger, how practice I impale my neighbour's nasty tree? I've tried copper nails and it dosn't work'. So regularly the old 'copper nail' story is trotted out. No doubt there are innumerable midnight expeditions by surreptitious neighbours silently tapping copper into the trunk of the hated specimen – indeed, the Ranger has really plant these nails in disputed copse. Healthy, vigorous trees. Yes, friends, let an quondam Ranger reveal a terrible truth – copper nails do non kill trees. In New Zealand in that location's fifty-fifty an opposite myth that says that you should put copper nails into fruit copse to protect them from disease. Just like the killing trees idea, it'south not true.

Where this story originated is a mystery, but practical experience demonstrates that the supposed 'magic bullet' solution is only false. Driving a copper boom into a tree does nothing. You lot might impale a tree if you bought enough copper nails to make a pile big enough to hide the tree, but brusque of that yous're wasting your fourth dimension. And where do you lot get copper nails from anyway? Is this whole thing promoted by the Copper Nail Retailers Association? Perhaps they don't have any other use for their product.

A tale from Berlin, where the 2006 World Loving cup fans filled the city, and the urinals, suggests a more enlightened alternative. Information technology seems that all those fans peeing in the bushes were killing the bushes. We are wasting our time buying all these copper nails. Let'south just concur a large party, with lots of complimentary beer, and no toilets. Then, even if the trees survive, the neighbours might just have chilled out plenty to all be friends again.

Oh, and if you came to this folio wondering how to impale a tree with copper nails, or even how to kill trees without them (yes, at that place is a fashion, and information technology'southward fifty-fifty easier than copper nails) – sorry, this is not a page about killing trees and so that's another story. You probably won't be too surprised to hear that the Ranger won't be telling it to y'all.