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Early this spring, after the snow melted, we discovered that all 7 of our fruit trees had been severely girdled by some some of small yard pest (voles, shrews, mice, who knows). They ate all of the bark from the bottom 6 - 18" on all 7 trees. This video documents step by step how we did a life-saving operation called a "bridge graft" to reconnect the bottom bark with the top bark, and it worked on 6 of the 7 fruit trees (mostly apple and sour cherry trees).
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