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Tree maintenance and storms
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:23 pm
Either spend some time and money on trees or a inconvenient storm will put it into your house.
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Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:25 pm to Purplehaze
Did you see my thread that I like crew socks with shorts now?
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:25 pm to Purplehaze
Just had 2200 worth of oaks cut and some big magnolias. Hopefully thinned it out enough for wind to go through in a big storm. Had to do it for insurance anyways.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:28 pm to Purplehaze
Tall pines can get fricked too
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:31 pm to Purplehaze
If a tree is within 250 ft radius of your house. Cut it down.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:31 pm to Dire Wolf
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Dire Wolf
Lazybrook resident [CONFIRMED]
Hope you came out okay today, baw!
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:32 pm to Purplehaze
I've cut down an elm, a cedar and an oak this summer. Will be cutting down 3 more oaks this fall.
I do it all myself and have a wood burning stove in the house for heat. Those hardwoods feed the beast and keep my winter utility bills to nothing.
I do it all myself and have a wood burning stove in the house for heat. Those hardwoods feed the beast and keep my winter utility bills to nothing.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:40 pm to El Segundo Guy
You also have all the people that complain when the electric companies cut back too much of the trees and then are the first to bitch about their power getting knocked out.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:43 pm to jclem11
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Lazybrook resident [CONFIRMED] Hope you came out okay today, baw!
Derecho cleared my block out so we didn’t have much to worry about.
Not a tree within 4 house in either direction can do any damage left.
Pay for it when the sun is roasting my arse on walks
Posted on 7/8/24 at 6:59 pm to Purplehaze
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Either spend some time and money on trees or a inconvenient storm will put it into your neighbor’s house.
FTFY
Posted on 7/8/24 at 7:18 pm to Tvilletiger
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Just had 2200 worth of oaks cut and some big magnolias.
Missing a zero or was this in 1997?
Posted on 7/8/24 at 7:22 pm to El Segundo Guy
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I've cut down an elm, a cedar and an oak this summer. Will be cutting down 3 more oaks this fall.
I do it all myself and have a wood burning stove in the house for heat. Those hardwoods feed the beast and keep my winter utility bills to nothing.
Do you split wood the old fashioned way or do you recommend a particular hydraulic one?
Posted on 7/8/24 at 7:35 pm to Purplehaze
Did that in 2007 with a water oak near the house. Clearly a Murphy's law situation.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 7:40 pm to Purplehaze
A 100’ oak fell and nearly took out our garage on Saturday. No wind, nothing. It just keeled over. Looked totally healthy but I see a ton of rot inside the trunk at the base now.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 7:41 pm to deeprig9
shite. I quit handsplitting when I was 47. Up til then it was a 10 lbs sledge and a splitting wedge.
Now I use a 25 ton hydraulic with a 6.5 hp motor.
Now I use a 25 ton hydraulic with a 6.5 hp motor.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 8:13 pm to El Segundo Guy
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shite. I quit handsplitting when I was 47. Up til then it was a 10 lbs sledge and a splitting wedge.
Now I use a 25 ton hydraulic with a 6.5 hp motor.
Now I want pics. And I want to see your woodshed.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 8:20 pm to Purplehaze
Of the grants that are put it out tree removal would be the wisest. A good portion of fhe destruction are trees that people cannot afford to cut down
Posted on 7/8/24 at 8:25 pm to Purplehaze
In Hurricane Country the smart thing is to NOT have a Water Oak or a Pine Tree within striking distance of a house. The oak trees might provide shade, but when it falls on the house you aren’t going to be worried about shade. House Splitters, AKA Pine Trees serve no purpose that close to a house, because they can and will split a house into during a storm, and unfortunately kill people in the process.
Posted on 7/8/24 at 8:33 pm to Purplehaze
Just had a water oak with a huge dead branch and an Ash cut down and another oak trimmed. Cost me $4900. Still cheaper than having them fall on the house
Posted on 7/8/24 at 8:37 pm to tommy2tone1999
quote:Dayum
Just had a water oak with a huge dead branch and an Ash cut down and another oak trimmed. Cost me $4900. Still cheaper than having them fall on the house
I had a ~60' water oak cut down this morning
Thank god because after it was removed I noticed about 40% of the trunk was rotting/hollow
This post was edited on 7/9/24 at 9:33 pm
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