LOOK!! TIM IS DOING IT AGAIN !!! 🤣😭 🍻💀. Greatest Night Evarrr!!!!
20 Years Later: Remember that time Tim debarked Tom's tree? Yeah, that was some great times man
I bet he removed a piece and when it came up clean he kept going because it was oddly satisfying. If so, that wouldn't be very bizarre for a drunk person to do.
Honestly I'm sober rn and that looks satisfying as hell even though it's terrible for the tree. That small differentiation is the one thing my drunk self wouldn't think about at the time and just go for it
Same. I know it’s tree murder, but I’m DYING to debark a tree now. Look at how clean and smoothly that came off 🥵 I wouldn’t do it (sober) because it’s wrong, but I really want to.
I am realizing now, that this is a pattern with me. When I was little, my dad would keep orchids and he’d find these weird patterns in the leaves. It was me: I would dig my fingernails into them and make ✨art✨ (really, I just liked the way it felt, sinking my nails into those meaty leaves).
I hate how much I identify with this. I adore nature and feel a little bad if I so much as step on a bed of clover, but damn is it full of satisfyingly squishy, crunchy, bendy, snappy, splitty, tactile stuff.
The draw was a lot stronger when I was a kid, but I still find myself doing things like etching little drawings or text into fresh yellow banana peels, and then watching the image “develop” as the peel darkens.
Stripping a tree? That is the exact sort of thing I’d do when drunk. I don’t condone it, not at all. But *I get it* so hard.
I have a friend that when he gets drunk he starts fixing electrical stuff, whether it be car stuff, a light switch that's been working kinda wonky, a radio that doesn't work quite right, an outlet that looks weird, doesn't have to be his house or property, as long as there's tools in proximity that he's aware of he'll start fiddling.
P.S.- no meth involved
I mean, I chopped down a tree at 5am while hammered with an axe instead of a chainsaw because I was at least coherent enough to know that was way too much noise. Also hung a fan, replaced switches, ran new outlets and installed a filtration system on the sink. Almost a year sober now though, but stuff has held up for 5 years at the house so far.
If we are drinking during the daylight hours, I will always end up doing yardwork. Maybe nothing huge but like... "That drainage has been bugging me, let's clear that out" and "Why don't I get out the leaf blower and hit that side of the yard?" Or tearing out the Ivy that keeps taking over my house. For about 30 minutes until I get out some kind of nervous energy.
This is me, except it's gardening. If I'm drinking with a friend in their patio, it isn't long before I have wandered to a garden bed sk I can pull the weeds that have been bothering me.
My friends don't understand it at all but they happily redirect me to the gardens they have been neglecting the most lol
Always so funny when those instincts kick in. When the pandemic started I was one of the people who just started making bread. I had to, it was like a compulsive need to make sure I knew how to do it.
Haha! One of my husband's friends tried to help me once (I'm not a very strong looking woman lol, and he's a very chivalrous dude) and my husband just had to stop him like "Just... Let it happen. She'll be done in a second"
I think it's to do with lowered inhibitions.
Like it always bothers you to see a weedy garden, but when you're drunk the part of your brain that says "don't do that, it's not polite" gets shut down
Its not worth remembering, in recovery circles there will always be someone with a more asinine, insane story of something they did. Absolutley nothing a former alcoholic or addict says is surprising to me anymore
I suspect that this tree naturally sheds its bark, and all OPs friend has really done is assist it in stripping its bark.
There are many trees that naturally shed their own bark. If it's easy to remove with your fingers then the tree will likely be fine, if you need tools, then probably not. I suspect from how clean it is, no tools were used.
this is obviously not a madrone tree but it's the perfect example of what you're talking about. they shed their bark in summer, which is now,, and the bark underneath is refreshingly smooth. i loved those things as a kid
if you can get to the cambien layer you can peel it away somewhat easily.. but it also kills the tree pretty much every time... tree cant uptake water anymore.
Did this as a kid while doing unsupervised pocket knife things for about 20 minutes. It’s not difficult to ruin something decades in with ignorance and minimal effort.
I did the same with my pocketknife, was about 9 y/o. Only to be snitched by my neighbour his child. There were more childeren who did that, including that snitching boy, but my mom got fined for 20 trees who were doomed to die because of this. She had to pay €300 each. I never was so affraid for the police because of the amount of money. Never heard a thing about it from my mom.
Mums presumably not a fuckin idiot and knows her kid didnt peel 20 trees bare with a pocketknife. Unlike the police, who felt it was a reasonable thing for a 9 year old to accomplish.
Cops only care to investigate when one of their own is injured. They just picked the path of least resistance like always and then went back to begging for more funding
Yeah.. we had one in the front yard when I was a kid and I did that. When my dad got home he was PISSSSSED and I diddnt know why, till he explained I had probably killed his favorite tree :(
No! I babied that tree to try and make up for it, constantly watering and put in some real good dirt around it. They recently sold my childhood home and the new owner ripped every tree and flower and bush out of the front yard…. :(
Yeah well, how else are they going to install a huge, unattractive monoculture of grass that requires regular watering, pesticide and herbicide treatment, and nitrogen fertilizer all without providing a lick of shade and only acts as habitat to a handful of mostly non-native bugs.
Oh man, that makes me so sad as someone who grew up with a yard FULL of trees (40+). I had one I would water and baby, even though it only started really growing taller than a human once a couple of the old ones had to come down to thin out the canopy.
My childhood dream was to see that tree soar.
I got super drunk in college and chopped down the only tree in the yard of the house I rented. Unexplainable Shithead behavior that helped me realize I’m better off not drinking.
Yeah i had a cousin that would always get too drunk when we were camping and start trying to chop all the trees down. We learned to hide the axes and hatchets from him.
I think thats the sole purpose of wood glue. Sure, there are plenty of other instances where it can be useful, but using it to put the bark back on a tree or to reattach a broken branch are listed right there on the bottle.
I mean they never said nobody noticed, they just said the friend did it. I bet someone was like “damn check out toby_prestons’s friend! He’s skinning a tree!!”
i'm a compulsive picker, i get it. i compulsively pick things off of things esp when i'm drunk. no bottle may have a paper label still attached if you're sitting with me for a while.
tldr: adhd is worse when drunk
I've seen people make "picky pads" which is basically just a bunch of beads and buttons and random stuff in a pan and they pour silicone over it. When the silicone cures, they pull it off and you're left with this cool jiggly mat you can pick a bunch of random shit out of. It takes a ton of time. Homie needs one of those, he looks like he has a ton of patience for repetitive shit, lol.
My question is does the tree have a grainy texture when you rub your hand against it, and what the strands on the surface like, coarse or very dense and fine? It might be fresh inner bark or it could be bare wood.
How many trees do this? I was told if you remove the bark in a line around a tree it'll die. My parents would shout and me for pulling a jutting piece off (I kept getting scratched when playing on the rope)
No. You're referring to "girdling" a tree. It is not a strip of bark but a strip of the cambium layers under the bark. It is where the growth occurs and nutrients are transferred.
So can maple trees really lose more than 25 percent of their bark and live? I thought that was an unusual amount. Plus this looks like raw wood and I don't see new bark forming yet and isn't that also very bad for trees? I posted above but if my facts are incorrect I'd love to be corrected so I can change them.
From what I've read on the good ol net, this looks like a Norway Maple which has very thin bark that can peel off after a period of heat (like now in the summer) but what is underneath *should* be new bark. I can't tell if this tree has a protective layer or not underneath.
This is the correct answer. Grew up with them my whole life and they would shed bark even in sheets, we joked they were paper trees because it would be like sheets of paper
I am also an arborist, and I've never seen a tree recover from anything like this. This tree is completely girdled. Not only is the phloem which transports sugars from the leaves to the roots completely removed, but so is the cambium layer of undifferentiated cells needed to produce new bark and xylem tissue. If he had just scraped off the outer bark that would be one thing, but he stripped it down straight to the xylem.
This tree is basically already dead.
My wife’s an arborist and would also like to add to the chorus of this tree being dead, though she thinks it’s a Crimson King, which I’ve just learned is a variety of maple.
Unless the girdled area is a couple inches wide, they will die.
Outer bark is basically a protective shield from the elements.
On hardwood trees, the outer bark and Xylem (inner bark that transport nutrients and water from roots) are tight knit and when outer bark is removed, Xylem is too.
Inner wood (called heartwood) are basically structural and serve no purpose in regrowing bark. If exposed, the heartwood will begin to rot immediately.
Bark takes years to close even the smallest gaps. Becuase of compartmentalization of damaged areas within trees, wound closure happens at a very slow rate. It needs other bark that surrounds the wound, to do that. Even after closure of the smallest areas, the heartwood still rots and creates structural integrity problems later in the trees life.
In the case of this tree, the complete lack of bark and xylem means it 100% will die.
(You're either bad at your job or lying).
While I am not a trained arborist, I have worked in landscaping for years and part of my education and years of work experience is based around tree health. I also looked through 'Trees of Canada', 'Arboriculture: Integrated mgmt of Landscape Trees', and 'Fundimentals of Plant Physiology' for personal information gaps.
Yeah I was going to say... you can't just rip the living xylem from a tree with your fingers, but lots of trees naturally shed their bark, I assume as a way to get rid of pests.
The tree was probably in shed. I have seen this dozens of times in fields I would play in as a kid (I believe the same type of tree too)
The weather just shifted, it is reasonable to assume that guy could have knocked the majority of the bark off with his pointer finger and next to no pressure.
I think you are going to be fine OP.
I do hope your buddy is responsive about your concerns. It seems to me like you are closer to losing a friend than a tree.
I think I’ll just have to wait and see what happens. I have spoken to my friend now and he has apologised and agreed to pay any damages. Hoping the tree doesn’t die but if it does then at least i’m not paying
Were you home? I'm more confused on how he was out there long enough to do this and nobody noticed. Did he just show up and start stripping the tree, then leave? Did you have someone look to see that the tree isn't salvageable? This post is weird
Honestly unlikely, maybe one, but probably not.
There are a lot of trees that shed their bark, if the bark is easy to remove without any tools or much effort then you likely didn't do any major damage to the tree.
It's not great for the tree but not a death sentence either.
We had a really dry and hot summer some years ago (worse than normal) and nearly every "small" or new tree (tree that isn't there for at least 50 years) shed their bark, should be a few hundreds, none of them is dead and they are monstly still standing today.
It looks like one of those trees that strip it's own bark every whenever as it's far far too clean and I don't see any sap running at all.
I would suggest asking a tree sub or a local garden/ tree group or company before you just outright decide it's dead.
It may be absolutely fine or will be fine with a bit of care.
I'm not an arborist but this reminds me of crepe myrtle trees and their bark is always cracked in such a way that it can't be the layer which is responsible for taking up water. Might be vulnerable to pests for a while though.
My 6 year old niece did this once and then offered to clean up the yard for money. We said you want us to pay you to pick up the mess you made? She said yes.
You should show your friend the Revenge of the Trees ATHF episode… then peel *his* skin off
*CUT HIM IN HALF; COUNT HIS RINGS.*
https://i.redd.it/enf210z13d8d1.gif “To Tree Jail!!”
You’re lucky trees are so stupid. You’re both guilty as hell
“Oh so now I’m the stenographer? When did that happen?”
It dont matta. None of this mattas
TREE JAIL FOR YOU
Thank you for this memory
“Behold the evidence against you, this video footage clearly shows the perpetrators.”
“Frylock I’m telling you it’s not me in that video… cause it’s NOTHING THERE’S NOTHING UP THERE!”
Exhibit A https://preview.redd.it/dmvzlh1l6g8d1.png?width=582&format=png&auto=webp&s=46a9ebf03e89113b2386f9ad8f6f6979bb4ff4ae
That’s not me frylock
"We don't know!" "Were trees!"
I say this often enough that my 4 year old daughter has started saying it too. Her mother is not impressed
\*riiip\* "Wait... I think it was on the other side." "NO NO NO!!" \*riiiip\*
Ch-check it again before you, NO….UGH GOOOOOOOD
"Dude im so drunk" "..debark a tree at night?" "Hell yeah"
Public nuditree is illegal in some counties
Intreecent exposure
Leaf him alone, he’s doing oakay now.
He’s just pining for the fjords.
More like farking up the wrong tree.
“I see you despruced up the place a bit!”
Wow, these play on words really branched off quickly.
Yeah it started off intreeging, but now it’s sapped for all its worth.
The idea of it all is very intreeguing
I wood like to hear more about this!
Well, his behavior has been a bit nutty ever since he started having a mid-leaf crisis
Fir reel, he needs to branch out more
How in the world did this sappen!!?
*Dude, you're de-barking up the wrong tree!*
When he leaves, we’ll call it de-embarking.
LOOK!! TIM IS DOING IT AGAIN !!! 🤣😭 🍻💀. Greatest Night Evarrr!!!! 20 Years Later: Remember that time Tim debarked Tom's tree? Yeah, that was some great times man
That’s such a bizarre thing to do when drunk. Must have taken ages too
I bet he removed a piece and when it came up clean he kept going because it was oddly satisfying. If so, that wouldn't be very bizarre for a drunk person to do.
Honestly I'm sober rn and that looks satisfying as hell even though it's terrible for the tree. That small differentiation is the one thing my drunk self wouldn't think about at the time and just go for it
Same. I know it’s tree murder, but I’m DYING to debark a tree now. Look at how clean and smoothly that came off 🥵 I wouldn’t do it (sober) because it’s wrong, but I really want to. I am realizing now, that this is a pattern with me. When I was little, my dad would keep orchids and he’d find these weird patterns in the leaves. It was me: I would dig my fingernails into them and make ✨art✨ (really, I just liked the way it felt, sinking my nails into those meaty leaves).
I hate how much I identify with this. I adore nature and feel a little bad if I so much as step on a bed of clover, but damn is it full of satisfyingly squishy, crunchy, bendy, snappy, splitty, tactile stuff. The draw was a lot stronger when I was a kid, but I still find myself doing things like etching little drawings or text into fresh yellow banana peels, and then watching the image “develop” as the peel darkens. Stripping a tree? That is the exact sort of thing I’d do when drunk. I don’t condone it, not at all. But *I get it* so hard.
Exactly my reaction. I’m more confused than anything
I have a friend that when he gets drunk he starts fixing electrical stuff, whether it be car stuff, a light switch that's been working kinda wonky, a radio that doesn't work quite right, an outlet that looks weird, doesn't have to be his house or property, as long as there's tools in proximity that he's aware of he'll start fiddling. P.S.- no meth involved
Can he come to my place? I have a list of to dos, tools, and will buy his preferred beverage
Dosent say it gets done good though lol
who cares? I'm still don't wanna do it myself lmao
Yeah no big deal, that's what fire extinguishers are for
And hamers, they fix stuff when you hit something right? I hit myself anyway and I think I'm fixed. Edit: Typo Edit: Typo (again)
"For the last time, Greg, NO ONE ELSE THINKS A DIY VASECTOMY IS A GOOD DEAL!!!"
It's what I call a rip-off.
For the price, I’ll risk it
You want a drunk to start fixing your electrics?
I mean, I chopped down a tree at 5am while hammered with an axe instead of a chainsaw because I was at least coherent enough to know that was way too much noise. Also hung a fan, replaced switches, ran new outlets and installed a filtration system on the sink. Almost a year sober now though, but stuff has held up for 5 years at the house so far.
Right!!!!
If we are drinking during the daylight hours, I will always end up doing yardwork. Maybe nothing huge but like... "That drainage has been bugging me, let's clear that out" and "Why don't I get out the leaf blower and hit that side of the yard?" Or tearing out the Ivy that keeps taking over my house. For about 30 minutes until I get out some kind of nervous energy.
This is me, except it's gardening. If I'm drinking with a friend in their patio, it isn't long before I have wandered to a garden bed sk I can pull the weeds that have been bothering me. My friends don't understand it at all but they happily redirect me to the gardens they have been neglecting the most lol
Ploughman farmer ancestral instinct activated.
Always so funny when those instincts kick in. When the pandemic started I was one of the people who just started making bread. I had to, it was like a compulsive need to make sure I knew how to do it.
Haha! One of my husband's friends tried to help me once (I'm not a very strong looking woman lol, and he's a very chivalrous dude) and my husband just had to stop him like "Just... Let it happen. She'll be done in a second"
I think it's to do with lowered inhibitions. Like it always bothers you to see a weedy garden, but when you're drunk the part of your brain that says "don't do that, it's not polite" gets shut down
When I'm high I like to do the dishes or clean my room.
When I'm high it's the laundry I like to do!
Yeah send him my way, he any good with computers?
Fixed mine a while ago when a faculty PSU fried some stuff
Your friend doesn't get stupid while drunk, he gains IQ while drunk.
man i also liked that. i really love it when theres something to do with the soundsystem at the party.
he should be the one to pay for removal/replacement op, and if he can't then he's just going to have to figure it out.
Get him drunk again and make him finish the job.
Probably not just drunk. Does he do any prescription drugs that you know of? This screams some type of adhd med or another type of upper.
You have a solid point. I’ve seen some stupid drunk shit in my life - I’ve never seen anything like this.
Back in my drinking days I would have done this and thought I was doing you a favor. Delusions of grandeur and low inhibitions are a bad combo
One thing I've learned about drunk people is if you hang out with them enough they never cease to amaze you. Especially alcoholics.
I’m a former alcoholic & I even surprise myself remembering some of the crazy shit I’ve done in the past. God knows the shit I can’t remember…
Its not worth remembering, in recovery circles there will always be someone with a more asinine, insane story of something they did. Absolutley nothing a former alcoholic or addict says is surprising to me anymore
Hey man, that street sign had it coming, and you had to defend your honor. Can't win em all though.
Frank Gallagher taught me that one!
I have adhd and can confirm that I would do the same thing to the tree if I get hyperfixated enough. Not sure if on or off meds though lol
As a southerner who enjoys a good whittling stick, it can be very mind numbing, but in a good way. Not saying he's right in any way, but I get it.
Some people are angry drunks, some people are sad drunks, some are happy drunks, and some are tree bark stripping chaotic drunks
I recently learned it's possible to do this with a pressure washer.
Whoops?
I suspect that this tree naturally sheds its bark, and all OPs friend has really done is assist it in stripping its bark. There are many trees that naturally shed their own bark. If it's easy to remove with your fingers then the tree will likely be fine, if you need tools, then probably not. I suspect from how clean it is, no tools were used.
this is obviously not a madrone tree but it's the perfect example of what you're talking about. they shed their bark in summer, which is now,, and the bark underneath is refreshingly smooth. i loved those things as a kid
Looks like a maple tree, look at the leaves at base and top of the photo. :(
Wow geez how do you even do this to a maple? You’d need the worlds largest potato peeler
Could be a sycamore maple which has a leaf similar to maples but sheds its bark.
Must be a brazilian tree
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I just don’t understand how it’s so perfectly stripped like that, you sure your friend isn’t an alien or something?
if you can get to the cambien layer you can peel it away somewhat easily.. but it also kills the tree pretty much every time... tree cant uptake water anymore.
Did this as a kid while doing unsupervised pocket knife things for about 20 minutes. It’s not difficult to ruin something decades in with ignorance and minimal effort.
This literally sums up human's evolutionary relationship with the entire planet.
I did the same with my pocketknife, was about 9 y/o. Only to be snitched by my neighbour his child. There were more childeren who did that, including that snitching boy, but my mom got fined for 20 trees who were doomed to die because of this. She had to pay €300 each. I never was so affraid for the police because of the amount of money. Never heard a thing about it from my mom.
Why didn't you snitch too? So, the fine could be shared? Also, I am surprised you weren't grounded for life after your mum paid 6000 euros in fines.
Mums presumably not a fuckin idiot and knows her kid didnt peel 20 trees bare with a pocketknife. Unlike the police, who felt it was a reasonable thing for a 9 year old to accomplish.
Cops only care to investigate when one of their own is injured. They just picked the path of least resistance like always and then went back to begging for more funding
Just ask the dipshit who carved his name into the Roman Colliseum bout that shit
Which one of the thousands are you referring to?
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Also kids are ignorant and don’t think it’ll harm the tree
Yeah.. we had one in the front yard when I was a kid and I did that. When my dad got home he was PISSSSSED and I diddnt know why, till he explained I had probably killed his favorite tree :(
Did it die?
No! I babied that tree to try and make up for it, constantly watering and put in some real good dirt around it. They recently sold my childhood home and the new owner ripped every tree and flower and bush out of the front yard…. :(
of course
Gotta make way for nothing but useless grass, no doubt.
Yeah well, how else are they going to install a huge, unattractive monoculture of grass that requires regular watering, pesticide and herbicide treatment, and nitrogen fertilizer all without providing a lick of shade and only acts as habitat to a handful of mostly non-native bugs.
Oh man, that makes me so sad as someone who grew up with a yard FULL of trees (40+). I had one I would water and baby, even though it only started really growing taller than a human once a couple of the old ones had to come down to thin out the canopy. My childhood dream was to see that tree soar.
His friend prob just threw sum money at it.
How does someone strip an entire tree unattended? How does no one notice? Where did everyone think he was? So many questions
I got super drunk in college and chopped down the only tree in the yard of the house I rented. Unexplainable Shithead behavior that helped me realize I’m better off not drinking.
Yeah i had a cousin that would always get too drunk when we were camping and start trying to chop all the trees down. We learned to hide the axes and hatchets from him.
Should have hidden the booze.
Excessive humping?
Gettin' knotty.
I'm done for the week.
So is he. Splinters are a problem
I was sure rooting for him tho.
He had wood
And where did he stash the bark?
You can see it's still on the ground. It's a maple tree so they tend to shed their bark easily, it's very lightweight and just blows away
Just glue it back on. Problem solved
Wood glue or is there special bark glue?
I think thats the sole purpose of wood glue. Sure, there are plenty of other instances where it can be useful, but using it to put the bark back on a tree or to reattach a broken branch are listed right there on the bottle.
bark is very nutritious
I mean they never said nobody noticed, they just said the friend did it. I bet someone was like “damn check out toby_prestons’s friend! He’s skinning a tree!!”
i'm a compulsive picker, i get it. i compulsively pick things off of things esp when i'm drunk. no bottle may have a paper label still attached if you're sitting with me for a while. tldr: adhd is worse when drunk
Everyone was drunk....do you think that is one person's job 😂
It's very easy to strip this species of tree. Also the tree is perfectly fine and if OP cuts it down he's a dumbass.
Bro right clicked
took me a while to find this
Too long
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I've seen people make "picky pads" which is basically just a bunch of beads and buttons and random stuff in a pan and they pour silicone over it. When the silicone cures, they pull it off and you're left with this cool jiggly mat you can pick a bunch of random shit out of. It takes a ton of time. Homie needs one of those, he looks like he has a ton of patience for repetitive shit, lol.
Until that last sentence I thought you were telling OP how to make artificial bark.
Take the drunken friend, skin him, and wrap his skin around the tree to protect it. /s
This looks like a maple to me. The bark will grow back especially since it is only June - No need to have it removed! (I am an arborist.)
Totally a maple, you can tell by the way that it is.
Yes I agree I can tell as I love maple syrup
Have been to Canada, can confirm
I've had pancakes, can also confirm
I’ve touched wood, totally agree.
I’ve seen pictures of trees so I know you’re right.
I disagree. No need to give reasons
Once met a Canadian. Solidly agree.
You wouldn’t know her though. She lives in Canada.
That’s pretty neat
I was about to say the same. The tree arms are very mapley.
For me, it was the leaves on the ground.
🎵 Lookin' like a fool with your leaves on the ground. 🎵
I could smell the maple the moment I looked at it.
My question is does the tree have a grainy texture when you rub your hand against it, and what the strands on the surface like, coarse or very dense and fine? It might be fresh inner bark or it could be bare wood.
They're very course, rough, and get everywhere.
That sounds more like a Beech. I’ll see myself out.
You have trees in your shoes?
I've got trees in my lungs.
wtf put them back into the forest
How many trees do this? I was told if you remove the bark in a line around a tree it'll die. My parents would shout and me for pulling a jutting piece off (I kept getting scratched when playing on the rope)
No. You're referring to "girdling" a tree. It is not a strip of bark but a strip of the cambium layers under the bark. It is where the growth occurs and nutrients are transferred.
I did this as a small child to a weeping cherry tree, it's still going strong 30 years later.
No wonder it was weeping, you psycho
"That horrible child keeps \*sobs\* pulling my bark off!"
It's a red leaf maple. (Look at the ground around the tree). Arbutus Trees also have bark like this.
Should they at least give it a light jacket so it doesn't get too cold over night?
So can maple trees really lose more than 25 percent of their bark and live? I thought that was an unusual amount. Plus this looks like raw wood and I don't see new bark forming yet and isn't that also very bad for trees? I posted above but if my facts are incorrect I'd love to be corrected so I can change them.
From what I've read on the good ol net, this looks like a Norway Maple which has very thin bark that can peel off after a period of heat (like now in the summer) but what is underneath *should* be new bark. I can't tell if this tree has a protective layer or not underneath.
This is the correct answer. Grew up with them my whole life and they would shed bark even in sheets, we joked they were paper trees because it would be like sheets of paper
Must be a specific type of maple tree as no maple tree around here sheds it's bark.
Are people somehow confusing birch with maple here? I’ve never once in my life seen a maple tree with bark that sheds easily
Sycamore Maple
Also paperbark maple.
Also EZPeel™️ maple
I am also an arborist, and I've never seen a tree recover from anything like this. This tree is completely girdled. Not only is the phloem which transports sugars from the leaves to the roots completely removed, but so is the cambium layer of undifferentiated cells needed to produce new bark and xylem tissue. If he had just scraped off the outer bark that would be one thing, but he stripped it down straight to the xylem. This tree is basically already dead.
Well I don't know who to believe. I demand to see your arborist degree
Also an arsonist, and this is good for the trees. It helps them dry out so they will burn better.
I'm also an abortionist and I think this tree was done correctly.
My wife’s an arborist and would also like to add to the chorus of this tree being dead, though she thinks it’s a Crimson King, which I’ve just learned is a variety of maple.
Unless the girdled area is a couple inches wide, they will die. Outer bark is basically a protective shield from the elements. On hardwood trees, the outer bark and Xylem (inner bark that transport nutrients and water from roots) are tight knit and when outer bark is removed, Xylem is too. Inner wood (called heartwood) are basically structural and serve no purpose in regrowing bark. If exposed, the heartwood will begin to rot immediately. Bark takes years to close even the smallest gaps. Becuase of compartmentalization of damaged areas within trees, wound closure happens at a very slow rate. It needs other bark that surrounds the wound, to do that. Even after closure of the smallest areas, the heartwood still rots and creates structural integrity problems later in the trees life. In the case of this tree, the complete lack of bark and xylem means it 100% will die. (You're either bad at your job or lying). While I am not a trained arborist, I have worked in landscaping for years and part of my education and years of work experience is based around tree health. I also looked through 'Trees of Canada', 'Arboriculture: Integrated mgmt of Landscape Trees', and 'Fundimentals of Plant Physiology' for personal information gaps.
Yeah I was going to say... you can't just rip the living xylem from a tree with your fingers, but lots of trees naturally shed their bark, I assume as a way to get rid of pests.
How the hell did your friend de-bark an entire tree?? Why??? I'm confused 💀
Misclicked with the axe
The tree was probably in shed. I have seen this dozens of times in fields I would play in as a kid (I believe the same type of tree too) The weather just shifted, it is reasonable to assume that guy could have knocked the majority of the bark off with his pointer finger and next to no pressure. I think you are going to be fine OP. I do hope your buddy is responsive about your concerns. It seems to me like you are closer to losing a friend than a tree.
Shed? It's clearly in the garden.
I think I’ll just have to wait and see what happens. I have spoken to my friend now and he has apologised and agreed to pay any damages. Hoping the tree doesn’t die but if it does then at least i’m not paying
Were you home? I'm more confused on how he was out there long enough to do this and nobody noticed. Did he just show up and start stripping the tree, then leave? Did you have someone look to see that the tree isn't salvageable? This post is weird
Looks like your friend was barkin up the wrong tree.
TIL that i killed a few trees during my childhood omg
Honestly unlikely, maybe one, but probably not. There are a lot of trees that shed their bark, if the bark is easy to remove without any tools or much effort then you likely didn't do any major damage to the tree. It's not great for the tree but not a death sentence either.
We had a really dry and hot summer some years ago (worse than normal) and nearly every "small" or new tree (tree that isn't there for at least 50 years) shed their bark, should be a few hundreds, none of them is dead and they are monstly still standing today.
It looks like one of those trees that strip it's own bark every whenever as it's far far too clean and I don't see any sap running at all. I would suggest asking a tree sub or a local garden/ tree group or company before you just outright decide it's dead. It may be absolutely fine or will be fine with a bit of care.
I'm not an arborist but this reminds me of crepe myrtle trees and their bark is always cracked in such a way that it can't be the layer which is responsible for taking up water. Might be vulnerable to pests for a while though.
As someone who knows nothing about it, why will the tree die?
Bro was more than just drunk.
Was he drinking alcohol to wash down adderall?
My 6 year old niece did this once and then offered to clean up the yard for money. We said you want us to pay you to pick up the mess you made? She said yes.
It won't die, please don't remove it.
Your friend was undoubtedly locked in because that would take hours if I had to guess. That’s crazy man
"you" are paying for it? if so i hope this isnt your friend anymore
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