Broken Trees
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@brenda Brenda! Where ya been?
They came up with a figure $400 Higher than I as thinking but accepted my offer. Technically I could have held them to the first estimate but I did not think that was right. Also the main worker stayed positive and resolved through this hellish effort. He’s getting married Saturday so I gave he and his bride a couple bottles of wine I thought they might like.
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wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 22:53 last edited by
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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wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 23:18 last edited by
Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.
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Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.
wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 23:20 last edited by@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?
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Good call, Copper. There are some things best left to the professionals with the expensive equipment and insurance.
wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 00:02 last edited by@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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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:24 last edited by
$1200.00
Ouch.
And then you get the summons to appear, for taking down a tree withoutpermissiona permit.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:36 last edited by
Geez.. I think I'll go into the tree removal bidness...
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:50 last edited by
@Larry said in Broken Trees:
Geez.. I think I'll go into the tree removal bidness...
Copper was quoted the going rate.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:54 last edited by
Yes... I just had no idea it costs that much.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 01:59 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:11 last edited by
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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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.
wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:22 last edited by@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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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:54 last edited by
The guys that pulled my tree down grinded the stump down too.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 02:56 last edited by
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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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.
wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 03:13 last edited by@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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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 03:21 last edited by
Your sister sounds pretty.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 03:26 last edited by
Sweetgum will sometimes regrow from the stump.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 04:36 last edited by
@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.
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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.wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 04:41 last edited by -
wrote on 25 Jun 2020, 04:43 last edited by Larry
@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.