Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I helped my neighbor cut down about an 80 foot poplar tree a year and a half ago. Using a chain saw we cut off as many branches as we could reach before falling the tree in the opposite direction from his house. It took a couple of hours to do it right and attracted a crowd of on-lookers. I still have some of the firewood. No permit was requested... on the basis that it is better to seek forgiveness then approval.> Subject: RE: [Leica] Felling the Mighty Oak - 21st Century Style> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:14:58 -0400> From: drodgers@casefarms.com> To: lug@leica-users.org> > 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> > > > > _______________________________________________> Leica Users Group.> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ Make i'm yours.? Create a custom banner to support your cause. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Contribute/Default.aspx?source=TXT_TAGHM_MSN_Make_IM_Yours