Copper earth electrode use "banned"?

Former Community Member over 4 years ago

New one on me, looked at caravan/camp site yesterday and client adverse to use of copper clad electrodes as he is attributing the death of his Lime trees (Tilia oliveri) and Red Oak trees (I missed his Latin designation for these and couldn't find it) to the use of buried copper.

He knew his trees and I wondered if anyone else had heard of this?

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BOD

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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

ebee:

Plus, many have tried the old copper pipe "trick" (Sorry Graham) to no avail .

Someone down my street cut a big tree/bush thingy right down then hammered 15mm copper ipie (Ok tube then) into the stumps and had no discernable effect.

Yes, I tried this 10 years ago with conifer, chopped it down and hammered a length of copper pipe in the stump.
It’s now 35ft tall, with it’s own plumbing!
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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

ebee:

Plus, many have tried the old copper pipe "trick" (Sorry Graham) to no avail .

Someone down my street cut a big tree/bush thingy right down then hammered 15mm copper ipie (Ok tube then) into the stumps and had no discernable effect.

Yes, I tried this 10 years ago with conifer, chopped it down and hammered a length of copper pipe in the stump.
It’s now 35ft tall, with it’s own plumbing!
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