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    Copper
    wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 22:53 last edited by
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    1 tree guy visited, the other didn't respond

    The tree has two halves - left and right

    The right half snapped in half. He will cut that down and leave the left half for $700.

    He'll take down the left half for and additional $400

    He'll cart off all the trash for $100

    $1200 total - do it take down the whole thing. I'm not going to leave the 80+ feet tall left half.

    I warned the neighbors that there could be a lot of noise on Friday or Saturday, for $1200 I expect a lot of noise.

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      brenda
      wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 23:18 last edited by
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      Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.

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        24 Jun 2020, 23:18

        Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.

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        George K
        wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 23:20 last edited by
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        @brenda said in Broken Trees:

        Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.

        Good choice.

        Stump removal?

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          24 Jun 2020, 23:18

          Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.

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          Jolly
          wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 00:02 last edited by
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          @brenda said in Broken Trees:

          Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.

          Yeah, but what's the adventure in that?😄

          Over the years, we've dropped two that were close to the house (I'm talking 30 feet of so). The elm wasn't huge, maybe the size of copper's sweetgum. The pin oak was about 36" on the stump.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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            Rainman
            wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:24 last edited by
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            $1200.00
            Ouch.
            And then you get the summons to appear, for taking down a tree without permission a permit.
            Oh, wait. That's my neighborhood, I forgot.

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              Larry
              wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:36 last edited by
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              Geez.. I think I'll go into the tree removal bidness...

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                25 Jun 2020, 01:36

                Geez.. I think I'll go into the tree removal bidness...

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                Jolly
                wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:50 last edited by
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                @Larry said in Broken Trees:

                Geez.. I think I'll go into the tree removal bidness...

                Copper was quoted the going rate.

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  Larry
                  wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:54 last edited by
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                  Yes... I just had no idea it costs that much.

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:59 last edited by
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                    Copper that’s about what I paid to have a tree taken down a couple years ago. I posted about it at the time.

                    They were in and out in 2 hours. It was something to see.

                    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                      Copper
                      wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:11 last edited by
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                      For the moment the stump will remain. It is a good 25 feet from where the lawn ends and a few feet from the back fence.

                      Not wilderness exactly, but kind of a natural area. I can get away with a stump for a while it won't bother anything. There are about 50 trees back there, I'll have to take some more sooner or later, I'll save up a few stumps and do them together.

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                      • C Copper
                        25 Jun 2020, 02:11

                        For the moment the stump will remain. It is a good 25 feet from where the lawn ends and a few feet from the back fence.

                        Not wilderness exactly, but kind of a natural area. I can get away with a stump for a while it won't bother anything. There are about 50 trees back there, I'll have to take some more sooner or later, I'll save up a few stumps and do them together.

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                        Rainman
                        wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:22 last edited by
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                        @Copper
                        Copper, if you cut low enough, you could rent one of those tree stump grinders. They work amazingly well, and work relatively quickly. Not too hard on the back, though I'd never attempt it nowadays.

                        On our street, the developer must have gotten a real deal on Ash. Useless tree, but lined all up and down our street. Always sickly, internal rot, I had to have it removed because of fear it would fall on the house.

                        There's also something that can be applied to a trunk, that causes it to decompose more rapidly than natural. I don't know anything about it, maybe someone here has used it. I'm suggesting stuff only if you see another price tag coming your way to get things back to normal.

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                          jon-nyc
                          wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:54 last edited by
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                          The guys that pulled my tree down grinded the stump down too.

                          Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:56 last edited by
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                            I talked to a guy about removing another stump and he said ‘we can’t get the back hoe in here but maybe we can attach a winch to it from the truck and pull it out, but I’m not sure we can do that either’

                            I said to him “when I was 14, my dad handed me a shovel and an axe and told me to get a stump out. It took all day but I did it”. He was surprised, like it was a method he’d never heard of.

                            Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                              25 Jun 2020, 02:56

                              I talked to a guy about removing another stump and he said ‘we can’t get the back hoe in here but maybe we can attach a winch to it from the truck and pull it out, but I’m not sure we can do that either’

                              I said to him “when I was 14, my dad handed me a shovel and an axe and told me to get a stump out. It took all day but I did it”. He was surprised, like it was a method he’d never heard of.

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                              Rainman
                              wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 03:13 last edited by
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                              @jon-nyc said in Broken Trees:

                              I talked to a guy about removing another stump and he said ‘we can’t get the back hoe in here but maybe we can attach a winch to it from the truck and pull it out, but I’m not sure we can do that either’

                              I said to him “when I was 14, my dad handed me a shovel and an axe and told me to get a stump out. It took all day but I did it”. He was surprised, like it was a method he’d never heard of.

                              Yeah, been there. Several times when I was growing up, a storm would knock over a tree or two on our property. It was just a given, the Dad hands over tools to The Son, and The Son never even figures it's within any viable parameter of acceptable complaining, so you just did it. And your older sister (in my case) never did anything outside, nothing at all, ever. Never. She got away with everything. Outside hard work for me and my brother was like some sort of 11th commandment or something, and always landed on my Saturdays.

                              Not sure why I'm even commenting. I bet most guys on this forum had the same or similar expectation when growing up. Cats and Brenda probably were not spared the physical labor. Taiwan Girl, hmmm, I'd be interested to know about her intimate relationship with tree stumps.

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                                Horace
                                wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 03:21 last edited by
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                                Your sister sounds pretty.

                                Education is extremely important.

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                                  Jolly
                                  wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 03:26 last edited by
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                                  Sweetgum will sometimes regrow from the stump.

                                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    25 Jun 2020, 03:21

                                    Your sister sounds pretty.

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                                    Rainman
                                    wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 04:36 last edited by
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                                    @Horace said in Broken Trees:

                                    Your sister sounds pretty.

                                    Pretty? Pretty what?

                                    I had two sisters,
                                    I think a house fell on the first one. đŸŒȘ

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                                    • R Rainman
                                      25 Jun 2020, 04:36

                                      @Horace said in Broken Trees:

                                      Your sister sounds pretty.

                                      Pretty? Pretty what?

                                      I had two sisters,
                                      I think a house fell on the first one. đŸŒȘ

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                                      Catseye3
                                      wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 04:41 last edited by
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                                      @Rainman said in Broken Trees:

                                      I think a house fell on the first one.

                                      And her little dog, too!

                                      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                        25 Jun 2020, 03:26

                                        Sweetgum will sometimes regrow from the stump.

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                                        Larry
                                        wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 04:43 last edited by Larry
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                                        @Jolly said in Broken Trees:

                                        Sweetgum will sometimes regrow from the stump.

                                        Yes. And instead of one trunk you'll end up with 20 small trunks.

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                                          25 Jun 2020, 03:13

                                          @jon-nyc said in Broken Trees:

                                          I talked to a guy about removing another stump and he said ‘we can’t get the back hoe in here but maybe we can attach a winch to it from the truck and pull it out, but I’m not sure we can do that either’

                                          I said to him “when I was 14, my dad handed me a shovel and an axe and told me to get a stump out. It took all day but I did it”. He was surprised, like it was a method he’d never heard of.

                                          Yeah, been there. Several times when I was growing up, a storm would knock over a tree or two on our property. It was just a given, the Dad hands over tools to The Son, and The Son never even figures it's within any viable parameter of acceptable complaining, so you just did it. And your older sister (in my case) never did anything outside, nothing at all, ever. Never. She got away with everything. Outside hard work for me and my brother was like some sort of 11th commandment or something, and always landed on my Saturdays.

                                          Not sure why I'm even commenting. I bet most guys on this forum had the same or similar expectation when growing up. Cats and Brenda probably were not spared the physical labor. Taiwan Girl, hmmm, I'd be interested to know about her intimate relationship with tree stumps.

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                                          Improviso
                                          wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 09:36 last edited by
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                                          @Rainman said in Broken Trees:

                                          Outside hard work for me and my brother was like some sort of 11th commandment or something, and always landed on my Saturdays.

                                          Not sure why I'm even commenting. I bet most guys on this forum had the same or similar expectation when growing up.

                                          Damn... it was like I was reading MY story about growing up.

                                          We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
                                          Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on.

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