Broken Trees
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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.
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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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@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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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.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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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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@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.
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In my family, the sons were the royalty, and the daughters were the maids and outdoor workers. Really, this happened in every family on my mother's side of the tree.
My brother thought everything was owed to him, but I learned to work. That included school work, too.
That's how I could buy my motorcycle and freedom during my teens. I wasn't home much during those years. I loved my little Honda.
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@brenda said in Broken Trees:
In my family, the sons were the royalty, and the daughters were the maids and outdoor workers. Really, this happened in every family on my mother's side of the tree.
My brother thought everything was owed to him, but I learned to work. That included school work, too.
That's how I could buy my motorcycle and freedom during my teens. I wasn't home much during those years. I loved my little Honda.
I bet you were popular with the guys!
