Blue Tubes



Paulette's invention

Stuffing tree and branches into the tube.

Protection started along a deer "highway"

 This last Friday we teamed up to install more blue tubes using a loading device that Paulette invented using some white corrugated sleeving originally intended as protection itself, and one of the blue tubes.   The sleeve acts to hold the trunk of the tree and most of the branches, the balance of which are then wrapped up in the tube.  While the first person holds this contraption closed, a second person wraps a blue tube around all of it and fastens it, then the contraption is pulled out the top.  It works very well.  It is nearly impossible to hold branches up and compacted, then wrap a tube around the whole lot, any other way.  We got good at it and installed about 50 tubes in a couple of hours (more like four).  We ordered another 400 tubed that are on back order as a start at covering the most vulnerable trees and hope to have almost all but the smallest trees done this year before buck rub season starts again.


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