Being as tender hearted about animals as I am, one of my residents that I manage wanted me to remove live squirrels from getting access to around her window where some sleep and so she can sleep. She used live traps earlier in the year. I agreed to release them live as they became entrapped. This amounted to the mother and whole litter of about 4. By summer there were no squirrels bothering anybody, these Alaskan squirrels chirp for territorial rights more than ours. 

Before snowfall one of the bunch traced back along the Chena river about 2 miles to reclaim the same window. But this time it was very tolerating of people, and although the lady requested it's removal, we both looked at each other trying to be merciless to this now human friendly squirrel. The animal quickly learned that I was insulating an underground 500 gallon tank with blankets I fetched from dump sites. By the time I left to come home it became under zero F and by then it had changed locations from around the window to a nice winter place in the blankets. 

I don't know what to say about your tool yet. Give me a few more years to get old.

I saw you post. So I know how crowded yours is, I was guessing you were intending tools to an older group. -John still plays baseball everybody.

You forgot to mention us getting too heavy to climb trees during harvest as far as breaking the branches.

Hawthornes and medlars since there are hybrids known between them should graft together too. The Rombough family have at least a single large tree of such a hybrid of perhaps some value since it fruits. Lon pointed it out a long time ago. 

Lon taught me that most wider hybrids than between hawthornes and medlars that they in most cases don't exist because people don't know that wide hybrid roots don't live past a certain age. I tested this at least once on 'Nadia' which is a plum x sweet cherry hybrid. Cuttings root easily but roots could not be kept alive past three months. Which means the development of nadia got off to a start by a knowledgeable person that knew how to overcome. 

Most likely by an early spring method of propagation (is what these experts must have known about). For example, shown as my old topic of;

Green Grafting Tip

Well I at least hoped everyone else would take it the way you just stated, so yes. You of course know that I meant wide crosses. Like Nadia, most will understand cherry and plums are wide, and that I can tell you that Nadia will not ever be found as a root anywhere in the world. 

I'm going to find you a historical example of a cross between medlar and hawthorne and revise then post in a few minutes because (a) people are eating a heart healthy food and (b) I think that, in this case, is a narrow enough example from a hybrid cross from them found as standing on it's own root. 

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Citation: Enzenbacher, T. 2019. A Medlar by Any Other Name. Arnoldia, 77(1): 16–25.

^{Tom Frothingham (at left) encouraged the collectors to sample fruit of the Stern’s medlar (×Crataemespilus canescens). His colleagues Lauren Goldstein and Connor Livingston are pictured, along with Kea Woodruff (right). Tiffany Enzenbacher}