The question for today is..............

Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will
support a 10 pound possum.

 

Insufficient information:

> What time of year?
> What percentage of moisture in the wood?
> Temperature at the time of the test?
> What is the elevation of the tree?
> How far out on the limb will this test be run?
> What is the total length of the limb?
> Is this critter male or female?
> Why do you wish to know?
> What is a persimmon tree?

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I would say approximately 1/4 - 3/8" since the N. American variant is used to make billiard cues.

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Killjoy,phbbt,hey just for you Costco is having a sale on DEPENDS so there.

 

SAMS is much cheaper than COSTCO, plus COSTCO does not have my size - - they only have big ones, like for Scotty. ...........................they show off his LEGGS really well.

 

A tree that produces soft ball sized fruit. When mature (after it begins to split) it is used to throw at other kids until somebody gets really hurt.
The hurt kid is than carried to their house where somebody knocks on the door and everybody runs before the mother of the hurt kid can id them.
Or so I have heard.

 

What if they have security cams? Should one throw these fruit ***** at the cams from a hidden location first before proceeding to carry this distressed poor little thing to the front door and implant him on the porch?

Speaking of fruit *****, did you here about the - - - - uhhhhhhh - - - - let's see - - - anyone hear about the train that -- - - uhhhh - - - - ph00, that's what I need - - ph00...............

DeepWaterBob

 

Is that the European Opossum? Or the African Opossum?

 

Don't know. They didn't have security cams where I lived. In fact there was only one color TV in the whole area and they wouldn't let their kids play with kids from our area.
Probably because they would get smacked by a pomegranate.

 

As a former persimmon farmer, we planted them since they weren't affected by root rot that dessimated our avocados on the west slope of the grove, I would have to say 1/4" would most likley support a mature, non pregnant or slightly obese possum.

Of course had I witnessed this directly I would have let the air out of said possum with my .22, which any good young avo farmer would have been packing at that time....

 

After conferring with my father, he insists the hardiness of the tree, which when alive is more like a hearty vine, would probably support a full grown possum around 3 mm.

You will have to do the conversion, he switched to metric in the 60's...

 

From what I was told, it did not matter, but was it male or female?

Didn't you mean a persimmon fruit (whatever they are called)?

Finally got my answer - - no wonder my Canadian nuts and bolts will not fit on anything down here that is "normal." .............

 

I couldn't spell it.
Actually I must have lost it and had pomegranate on my mind.
A really ripe persimmon does not hurt nearly as much as a pomegranate but a fuyu persimmon hurts more than a hachiya.

 

Male or female?

You can tell by the bulge at the bottom of the fruit, like avocados, persimmons need male and female pollen to reproduce fruit each year...


What is really going on here...Persimmons, Possums, Pomegranetes??!!??

 

Shrews!