Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug wrote: >>Removing the overgrown cottonwood tree in my yard will cost about 100% of an M8 body :-( (vaguely on-topic). Also not a DIY project.<< IME it's expensive to have any work done in California. Cutting a tree down in Portland, OR, OTOH is expensive and also requires legal petitions and maybe even an act of congress. I knew for two years that my neighbor's tree was going to fall. People bristled when I mentioned that it be cut down. Don't get me wrong. I like trees. But this one eventually fell....right on top of my house. Cutting a tree down in NC is less of an issue, I found. Plenty of people will do it at reasonable rates. I had a 200 year-old oak tree in my back yard. It had been dead for a couple of years. Perhaps from a lightening strike, the scars of which were pretty obvious. It cost $100 to have it cut down. It would have been another $100 to chop it up and haul it away but I let it rest. The only caveat, according to the guy cutting it down, was that it would cost another $200 if he happened to hit a cannonball with his chain saw. I thought he was joking but he was serious. He said it's not uncommon in old oaks in the area to find where a cannonball or two was left in the crotch. Over time the tree grew and engulfed them. Sadly, I didn't include anything in this photo for reference so the tree doesn't look that big. But it's big. The trunk is over 5 ft in diameter. No Sequoia, but still impressive. http://www.purplehen.com/Fuji/oaktree.jpg DaveR