02-22-2018, 09:13 AM
(02-22-2018, 08:59 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(02-22-2018, 08:04 AM)jeffster Wrote: Wow....just...wow. Seems the government has a unique way of killing family happiness. Wouldn't want to promote education within the city when you already have 2 universities doing that.
Sounds like somebody needs to get over to King St. and enforce some parking bylaws. They’re obviously not very busy.
Although to be fair, this at least isn’t a completely frivolous enforcement exercise. We probably don’t want people nailing tree houses and the like to City trees. I wonder how easy it is to tap a tree wrong and actually damage it for real (as opposed to hypothetically).
I've tapped a few trees over the years at a property that my friend's parents own out in the country, none of the trees I've ever tapped have suffered any obvious damage. The hole for the spile is only around 2" deep and maybe 1/2" around. The maples around my place near Vic Park have all kinds of holes from woodpeckers that are bigger than that so in my opinion the to call tapping a tree "damage" is a bit of a stretch and the only way tapping a tree is gonna hurt it is if it's a small tree that gets 2 or more spiles. The only time I put more than 1 spile in a tree is if it was over 24" across and on some of the biggest trees I could find that were closer to 36" I'd put three. I guess if someone used a sledge hammer to pound a spile in it could split the wood but most modern spiles would break or bend before they could act as a splitting wedge.
I wonder how bylaw even got wind of this... maybe they had a bucket on the spile, I usually ran clear hose to a bigger bucket since I wasn't around to empty the pails every day.