Hai!...wax on...wax off...
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Yeah...kinda makes you take a deep breath before chopping anything off! These old junipers grow in an extremely harsh alpine climate... hot and dry during the summer, then severe cold and wind during the winter. The typical juniper growing in this kind of climate adds approximately an inch of girth to their trunk every century...that particular juniper has a trunk at the soil line almost 8 inches across.