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Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 5:48 pm Post subject: tying trees to posts
We have a hundred young olive trees that need a bit of help. Tying to a post. When we moved in they were all tied using that thick plastic, parcel strapping. It was no good as it cut into the bark. We replaced it with some blue rose tying up stuff. Trouble is is it has a rotted and the trees are now leaning over again. What do you recommened as a long lasting tying to a post type material. Thanks

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45723
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 5:49 pm Post subject:
We use the buckle ties: https://www.acorn-p-p.co.uk/?page=products_treeties

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 5:53 pm Post subject:
Ladies stockings or tights - go on, ask the locals to give you their used (WASHED) ones, I dare you!

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 5:59 pm Post subject:
You can use cut up bicycle inner tubes if you can't get proper tree ties. Just don't try to inflate them

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 5:59 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

We use the buckle ties:

https://www.acorn-p-p.co.uk/?page=products_treeties

Thanks tahir, do they last though. If they do I will get some. When I say last, does the sun rot them. Will they last more than a year?
Sorry to bang on, we have spent ages teasing our young trees towards the posts only to be thwarted when the tie has rotted and the tree has fallen back down again.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45723
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 6:01 pm Post subject:
They are somewhat UV stable, but no plastic lasts indefinitely in the hot sun, but then olives shouldn't need to be tied in forever.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 6:02 pm Post subject:

12Bore wrote:

Ladies stockings or tights - go on, ask the locals to give you their used (WASHED) ones, I dare you!

Have you seen Goodfellows?
No I daren't even if you double dared me. No, they have guns

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 6:08 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

They are somewhat UV stable, but no plastic lasts indefinitely in the hot sun, but then olives shouldn't need to be tied in forever.

We have some that seem to be determined to go horizontal, I think we should let them do their thing, wife thinks we should train them to the vertical.

Either way they give us lots of olives.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 10 6:09 pm Post subject:
They work though, they have enough strech to prevent chafing (ooer Mrs ) and are resiliant against the weather.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18420

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 10 1:32 pm Post subject:

cassy wrote:

You can use cut up bicycle inner tubes if you can't get proper tree ties.

Just don't try to inflate them

Yes to this, and the old tights suggestion.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 10 2:13 pm Post subject:
Morrison carrier bags last a year--all the others are useless for tree ties. The proper ties like Tahir uses have lasted me years but we don't get your sun---my biggest problem is remembering to check those and adjust so they don't end up strangling the tree.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 10 5:51 am Post subject:
Off to the scrapyard you go and get as many sets of old car seat belts as you can. Cut them to size and use them to fasten the trees to the support posts using staples or wire to fasten the two cut ends together.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 10 5:26 pm Post subject:

bodger wrote:

Off to the scrapyard you go and get as many sets of old car seat belts as you can. Cut them to size and use them to fasten the trees to the support posts using staples or wire to fasten the two cut ends together.

What a good idea, take a bow that man.

OP

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 4661
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 10 7:48 pm Post subject:

I use old hosepipe and electrical flex. Cut the hosepipe to about 10cm-20cm and cut about 50cm-80cm of electrical flex. Bend the flex in half, then put it around the stem of the tree. Thread both ends of the flex together through the hosepipe and out the other side. The stem of the tree is held in the noose end of the flex and the hosepipe therefore acts as a spacer between the tree and the post. Finally, wrap each end of the flex around the post and twist the ends together at the back.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 10 7:52 pm Post subject:
Even better, we have the makings of that to hand Sorry Bodger but Orangepippin just raised you

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