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Survey question, woodpecker pecks?

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Survey question, woodpecker pecks?

#1

Survey question, woodpecker pecks?

How do you fell about peck marks? 

1 I like the character it adds to normal wood. 

2   It doesn’t matter.

3   I consider it a defect and try to avoid it. 


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#2

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I don't recall ever having to make that decision.


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Peter Martin

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I had no idea what peck marks were, so I asked our new chatbot. Did he/she/it answer correctly?


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#4

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If you are talking brown dots and streaks the tree makes ("host response") in response to sapsucker woodpecker activity, stunning in turned wooden bowls.


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Survey

Whoever said little peckers couldn't get the job done had no appreciation for wood.

Sap-suckers RULE!!!!

:D


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Peter Martin

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Ah, apparently their is a difference between "peck marks" and "WOODPECKER peck marks."  LOL




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When I moved to Florida in the '70s, there was a Zelkova tree in the front yard. A sapsucker killed it. When I moved to NJ in the late '90s, there were two different kinds of magnolia trees in my back yard. A sapsucker killed them too. One also decimated my Korean spice viburnum, but they don't touch the Zelkova in the front that my father-in-law planted when they lost the American elms growing along Ye Greate Street. So I file the Dutch Elm Disease and the Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker in the same bucket.


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