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Had to cut my small tree
« on: April 12, 2012, 03:05:11 PM »
Had a tree that had to be cut, became a major project.  An arborist told me it was close to 300 years old.......
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Re: Had to cut my small tree
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2012, 03:32:35 PM »
WOW!!!!!!!  Pretty small.lol  What kind of tree?
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Re: Had to cut my small tree
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2012, 04:39:09 PM »
It was a red oak tree.  The main part of the trunk was cut into 8' sections so I could get it on the truck.  Each weighed more than 5000#.
 
Its a relief to have it down and gone.  The top was rotting from a lightning strike.  It could have wiped out mine, or two of my neighbor's homes.
 
I had a time getting a tree cutter to tackle it.
 
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Re: Had to cut my small tree
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2012, 10:32:42 PM »
Wowee!!! That's a bunch of firewood.
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Re: Had to cut my small tree
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2012, 06:58:16 AM »
Quote from: Ex 49'er on April 12, 2012, 10:32:42 PM
Wowee!!! That's a bunch of firewood.

 
HEH, that was my first thought too. I had to have a big pine taken down that had been hit by lightning several times. POWDERMAN.  :o :o
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Re: Had to cut my small tree
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2012, 05:07:33 PM »
Had a pondarosa(sp) pine taken out of the driveway couple yrs ago. 59 inchs across the base. The tree guy got the wood (plus some cash) I got a lot of the limbs, cut into firewood size. A guy with a self loader came out for the logs, had to make an extra trip just for the base log. Took him some time and quite a bit of jocking the base around before he finally got it loaded. Said he had never picked  up a log that big. His pickup arm on the truck was groaning and moaning real bad.

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