Really nice to hear you say you’re sad to see it go…I can’t tell you how many times in my long career in tree care that I’ve gone home at the end of the day shaking my head at jobs like this. People’s reasons for removing nice trees is often astonishingly arbitrary…I’d gladly take some shade over my house (rather than the blazing sun) in exchange for a little moss on my roof or the slight possibility that the tree might fall on the house.
@johns3106 theonger in in the tree care industry, the more I'm starting to see the value of doing what we cam to keep the trees rather than take them down. I used to get all excited about a big removal (and I still do) but now I'm way more interested in helping someone keep their tree.
@@zaccheus I love the technical/physical challenge of a big takedown…but there are MANY times that the feeling of accomplishment is overridden by the guilt of removing a nice tree. Other people are often astonished to hear me say that, but as my former boss (and friend) would say, “ We’re tree guys….we like trees!”
Nice capture of a sad removal Zach. I'm always so conflicted inside when a client want's me to take down a tree I would love to have in my yard. I do it after I make an attempt to have them keep the tree but clean it up and make it as safe as reasonably possible. I can't remember ever convincing anybody to keep the tree, they have already made their minds up I suppose. I had one job that I removed 38 trees from a yard because they didn't like cleaning up the leaves. A quick estimate I figured they could have payed someone to do their leaves for about 40 years for what it cost to cut the trees less the stump grinding! I look at it as people will do what they want and I might as well make the money.
Wow, 40 years? I've heard the reason before and it always seems like a lame one. I saw someone pose this question recently "why do companies with 'tree care' in their names do more removals than actual caring?" I think it's beciase people either don't know or don't want to spend money on their trees until they have decided to come down. It's a special shame because steuctural pruning in the first 20 years of a trees life is what sets it up for a strong future and makes it less risky to keep around once it's big.
Hi Zach, awesome video of the large tree in one fell swoop. Great footage of the tree coming down from your Go Pro in the Skid Steer. Looks like a Chipper is going to get a good workout chipping up all of those tree branches and leaves. It takes so long for a tree to grow to this size. It's kind of sad to see such a beautiful tree eliminated.
In an urban setting such as this job, I always wonder...was the tree there b4 the house was built or the opposite. Seems like some folks maybe simply fail to understand just how large a tree will be when mature. So it probably will be planted too close to structures, hardscapes then put in place and compromise root zone. And honestly most will not take a proactive approach to managing such an asset. That was a good one Zach. Shame maybe a little weight reduction here and there couldn't convince the homeowners to try a keep the tree for a few more years. Any of the stem saved for milling? that was a big sucker.
@ClellWise we saved the one from the stump in front, but this one was just too bug around and too short before soke big pruning scars. Maybe the right person with a log truck coukd have saved it, but that log was too heavy for the equipment we had to work with. I didn't clunt the rings on this tree but I suspect it was older than the house. I did see a spot where the right suddenly tightened up for a little while before the got bigger again. I assume thays when the house was built and the root damage discouraged healthy growth for a few years until the root system recovered.
I had an oak tree in a yard of a house I rented. I noticed when I would mow the yard that over time the roots were getting larger at the trunk. I just figured they were growing. What was really happening was the tree was slowly leaning. Thankfully away from the house. Came back home one windy day to find it had uprooted and blown over. Such a shame, it was a beautiful tree. Not very tall, but big and bulky. Even had a swing on one limb.
@marymulrooney1334 Oh that is a shame. It's always sad to see a favored tree fall victim to the weather. I think thays a good reason to keep young trees planted often. They help take over when things like that happen.
@@jimsmith9819 I'm just citing what I've read in my research over the years. I think you can find the information I've referenced in the arborist certification study guide. I'd say it's also been fairly evident in the small amount of stump excavation and stump grinding I've done.
Hi, I'm new to your channel so I was just wondering do you have a small bandsaw mill maybe back at your shop? If not it might make you feel a little better about taking down a big beautiful tree if you knew you had a way to give it a second life as some beautiful lumber.
@leorbuis9024 My dad has a small mill, and I take him all the logs I can. This log was so big that it would have required some very large equipment to remove in one piece and would have been too big to fit on dad's mill.
Yeah I thought you probably would have some resource for some of the logs. I'm like you, I really hate taking down a big beautiful tree, I have a small Mill myself but I specifically bought a chainsaw Mill for just this sort of occasion where the log was just simply too big to haul with the equipment I had so now when I come across one I cut it up out on the job site and bring it home in slabs.
@leorbuis9024 thays a great solution too. I'm not well enough connected with the local slab market to pursue that, but if you have buyers, it's definitely a great move.
Thanks for that feedback! I think we had the brush all chipped by early afternoon, and all the wood hauled off by 5pm it was a whole day project for sure!
@@cjgarg mmm I don’t have all of that in any one video. I have some basics in a couple videos, but both rigging limbs down and setting up climbing systems are such complex subjects that I don’t think I could fit everything into a video that was less than several hours long. Here is a video on my ascent system: ua-cam.com/video/0nS9dLllZ1k/v-deo.html Climbing anchors: ua-cam.com/video/4yjbVgiqZsg/v-deo.html
@johnsmith-wd5sq Man, I wish I woukd have counted the rings. It was definitely older than the house. You coukd see an area in the rings where there got tighter all of a sudden ans stayed like that for 10 or 20 years. I think thats when they built the house and the tree probably struggled to recover from root damage for a little while after.
@@zaccheus White Oaks are very slow growers. A tree that size, my guess probably 300 Years!!!!!! I got a little sick watching this video. I have an amazing, Bur Oak probably bigger than this one and it shades most of my house most of the day. I have a big problem here with Oak wilt and to lose this tree, to me, would be a catastrophe. I've lost many trees over the last few years and its my worst night mare, and here these people cut down this magnificent specimen because of their stupid gutters!
Just guess what I did yesterday I cut down two old dead trees they're not very big but they're twice as big as the one I did last year which was my first one I only use my little electric chainsaw a wedge and a two-dollar Hammer I bought my father for Father's Day when my weekly allowance was only 15 cents LOL. But the thing is I put them EXACTLY where I wanted to put them I didn't hit the power lines which was one way a road which was another way an old 55 Studebaker champ which was the other way and a building😂 As far as those trees in town near my garage I'm just chipping away at the branches bit by bit with a long pole saw and experimenting with a harness to try to climb a little. I'll get there I think about your videos all the time. Inspired
@deadmanswife3625 That's awesome! I'm so glad to hear that my videos have been inspirational to you! I remember when you told me about that first tree, and it sounds like you've come a long way already! I think you're doing it the best way possible and just doing a little bit more at a time. Trying to take on challenges too big too fast doesn't seem to work out all that well
Zach in the one picture looked like had fruiting bodies growing out of root flair. If so, although the tree looked healthy, it definitely needed to be removed because of the risk hazard. Tree would start showing crown decline next spring
@robertvannicolo4435 There was a fungus at the root flare, but that doesn't mean anything without identifying it. Some fungus benefits trees, some hurts them.
@@robertvannicolo4435 could be 🤷♂️ I don't know a whole lot about fungi. I just know that a lot of them like to live off of either living or dead things
Just cuz the tree guy says there shouldn't be any problems with the septic field, it would be a good idea to get it checked. We had tree work done where limbs had to be dropped in the septic field. Tree guy swore everything would be ok. Well, it wasn't. One of the distribution boxes was crushed, and we ended up having to also replace a drain field. Better to get it checked now rather than finding out something was damaged after having a sewage back up.
@tinydancer7426 I own an excavating company and do tree work on the side. You're right that tree guys will say things like that to sell a job, and they shpuodnt comment on areas outside if their expertise. I just happen to have enough experience in both fields to make solid judgments when the two worlds collide. That doesn't mean I'm always right though. The best way would always be to get the field marked out. The challenging thing is getting the homeowner to cover the cost of the marking. It can be $400 to as much as a $1,000 in these parts.
wow thats a beautiful white oak deffinatly a shame it had to come down. i had to remove a huge burr oak for someone not to long ago because they were putting in a building for a shop where it was. it was quite sad. we didnt have the room to drop it like you though. we did get abunch of good firewood though from it. we have an old timer that comes in somtimes and splits and piles up firewood and spreads the chips to a big birm weve created over the years so the boss lets him keep the money he gets for selling the firewood since hes not on the payroll.
yeah a good portion of it did get chipped ill be honest but we normally only chip stuff thats around 12ish inches or smaller even though we have a 18 inch chipper. are boss says just because it can take an 18 inch log doesnt mean you should feed it one. and thats gotta be true because running those huge logs through it has gotta be more wear and tear to it in the long wrong and i know those chippers are not cheap lol. its a bandit 18xp intimidator i believe. ive been trying to convince the boss to get a grcs but still havnt talked him into it sadly. they are pretty spendy but they look so handy ill keep on asking till he finally gives in lol
@swere1240 thats probably wise. Running any equipment at maximum capacity all the time is probably hard on it. My next video is focused of the production boosting ability of the GRCS Mayne that'll sway him 😅
@mikeklein318 No, I don't do any stump grinding so I can't really show that. Stump grinders are impressive machines though. I've rented them upon occasion.
I never really understood why some fellers start with an angled notch instead of the flat side. You can't really make adjustments right or left to change where it falls. That is unless you want to make another big angle cut.
@stuby2014 It's the way all large companies train people to fall trees. The idea is that it's easier to match the cuts up at the apex. The reality is that once your well practiced at one or the other, it doesn't matter. You can get them lined up just fine. As you can see, Ken nailed this with the angled cut first. It's just all about preference 🤷♂️
@TealCheetah honestly, I think they might still miss it late this summer. But I guess the bill though through the roof is batter than the tree coming through the roof 🤷♂️
How many people want a beautiful White Oak that shades their house like this one did to install solar panels. DUH! 👎 That tree was probably there 200 years before that house was built!
I can understand felling the tree very close to the house but I don't know why the tree in the middle of the yard was cut down except that people want everything to look like a golf course
I know man, they have three large beautiful oaks and a big cherry and we took all of them down. I hated it I woukd have happily lived under any of those trees. Next week's video will be about a tree in the backyard.
It was still pretty big and close to the house, likely cut out a lot of light? Perhaps a surveyor said they were causing issues. They hopefully have a plan to replant with something that won’t get so big.
@nicolad8822 you're right, it did present a risk to life and property. Not everyone is comfortable with that and so I understand. They took down every tree they had, so I'm not really sure what the motivation was.
I'm probably the only one on here that thinks removing it wasn't a bad decision. Yes, trees are beautiful and all, but they all present certain hazards. If a homeowner can't sleep well through a storm, that isn't good. Even if they just don't want moss on the roof, that is a valid concern. People's peace of mind, their lives, and their homes, and even their preferences matter more than trees. There's way more trees in the US than when the colonists landed nearly 300 years ago.
@4.0gpa44 you have some valid points, and I have referenced some of those exact ideas when dealing directly with customers in the past. There are certainly trees I would not feel comfortable sleeping under and other trees I'm that I would. I guess it just hurts a little more because the house was built under the tree. Are there really more trees than before the colonists arrived? I wpuld definitely agree that there are more trees than 100 years ago, but I think thays more about agriculture moving out to the plains and being more productive there rather than the more forrested parts of the country that had ti be cleared. I'm nohistorian, but I was under the impression that Ohio for example was almost 100% wooded until the flat parts were cleared for agriculture.
@@zaccheusI'll have to do a little more research. I thought I read it an agriculture book or horticulture book somewhere that we had more trees now than when the colonists arrived, but most places online are saying we have more trees now than 100 years ago, and I read online we have 2/3rds of what we had in 1600. I think you're right that much of Ohio was cleared (I saw some old photographs in a pamphlet or book talking a bit about Ohio's history, of some huge trees settlers cut down). However some plains states have gotten more forested when they were just grassland previously. And there's areas in the southwest where few trees existed that probably have a few more due to irrigated landscapes including planted trees. Any which way, I'm not too concerned. There's the whole debate over whether the earth is really warming, and if so, are humans responsible, and if so, is there anything that can be done about it. Even in a fairly worst-case scenario, the small temperature increases from increased C02 wouldn't flood areas far inland. I doubt the precise accuracy of their temperature data due to things like expanding urbanization leading to a localized heat island effect at temperature monitoring stations, and errors in data sorting/compilation.
@4.0gpa44 I'm right there with you. I dint think things are as bad as folks want us to believe. When ice floating in water melts, it doesn't have the volume of the water at all. It's only the the ice on land that has the potential to increase the fluid volume of the ocean. Besides if there were a real threat, I don't think people woukd be investing so much in costal cities. I'm not scientist, but I think it's a little over hyped.
Really nice to hear you say you’re sad to see it go…I can’t tell you how many times in my long career in tree care that I’ve gone home at the end of the day shaking my head at jobs like this. People’s reasons for removing nice trees is often astonishingly arbitrary…I’d gladly take some shade over my house (rather than the blazing sun) in exchange for a little moss on my roof or the slight possibility that the tree might fall on the house.
@johns3106 theonger in in the tree care industry, the more I'm starting to see the value of doing what we cam to keep the trees rather than take them down. I used to get all excited about a big removal (and I still do) but now I'm way more interested in helping someone keep their tree.
@@zaccheus I love the technical/physical challenge of a big takedown…but there are MANY times that the feeling of accomplishment is overridden by the guilt of removing a nice tree. Other people are often astonished to hear me say that, but as my former boss (and friend) would say, “ We’re tree guys….we like trees!”
@@johns3106 absolutely, absolutely
Nice capture of a sad removal Zach. I'm always so conflicted inside when a client want's me to take down a tree I would love to have in my yard. I do it after I make an attempt to have them keep the tree but clean it up and make it as safe as reasonably possible. I can't remember ever convincing anybody to keep the tree, they have already made their minds up I suppose. I had one job that I removed 38 trees from a yard because they didn't like cleaning up the leaves. A quick estimate I figured they could have payed someone to do their leaves for about 40 years for what it cost to cut the trees less the stump grinding! I look at it as people will do what they want and I might as well make the money.
Wow, 40 years? I've heard the reason before and it always seems like a lame one. I saw someone pose this question recently "why do companies with 'tree care' in their names do more removals than actual caring?" I think it's beciase people either don't know or don't want to spend money on their trees until they have decided to come down. It's a special shame because steuctural pruning in the first 20 years of a trees life is what sets it up for a strong future and makes it less risky to keep around once it's big.
Hi Zach, awesome video of the large tree in one fell swoop. Great footage of the tree coming down from your Go Pro in the Skid Steer.
Looks like a Chipper is going to get a good workout chipping up all of those tree branches and leaves.
It takes so long for a tree to grow to this size. It's kind of sad to see such a beautiful tree eliminated.
It absolutely is sad to see. I imagine that tree took a couple generations to grow to that size.
Great job, glad it worked out well
In an urban setting such as this job, I always wonder...was the tree there b4 the house was built or the opposite. Seems like some folks maybe simply fail to understand just how large a tree will be when mature. So it probably will be planted too close to structures, hardscapes then put in place and compromise root zone. And honestly most will not take a proactive approach to managing such an asset. That was a good one Zach. Shame maybe a little weight reduction here and there couldn't convince the homeowners to try a keep the tree for a few more years. Any of the stem saved for milling? that was a big sucker.
@ClellWise we saved the one from the stump in front, but this one was just too bug around and too short before soke big pruning scars. Maybe the right person with a log truck coukd have saved it, but that log was too heavy for the equipment we had to work with.
I didn't clunt the rings on this tree but I suspect it was older than the house. I did see a spot where the right suddenly tightened up for a little while before the got bigger again. I assume thays when the house was built and the root damage discouraged healthy growth for a few years until the root system recovered.
I had an oak tree in a yard of a house I rented. I noticed when I would mow the yard that over time the roots were getting larger at the trunk. I just figured they were growing. What was really happening was the tree was slowly leaning. Thankfully away from the house. Came back home one windy day to find it had uprooted and blown over. Such a shame, it was a beautiful tree. Not very tall, but big and bulky. Even had a swing on one limb.
@marymulrooney1334 Oh that is a shame. It's always sad to see a favored tree fall victim to the weather. I think thays a good reason to keep young trees planted often. They help take over when things like that happen.
being in your yard it had shallow roots because it had plenty of water at the surface
@jimsmith9819 most trees put 90% of their roots in the first foot of soil
@@zaccheus i disagree
@@jimsmith9819 I'm just citing what I've read in my research over the years. I think you can find the information I've referenced in the arborist certification study guide. I'd say it's also been fairly evident in the small amount of stump excavation and stump grinding I've done.
Hi, I'm new to your channel so I was just wondering do you have a small bandsaw mill maybe back at your shop? If not it might make you feel a little better about taking down a big beautiful tree if you knew you had a way to give it a second life as some beautiful lumber.
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@leorbuis9024 My dad has a small mill, and I take him all the logs I can. This log was so big that it would have required some very large equipment to remove in one piece and would have been too big to fit on dad's mill.
Yeah I thought you probably would have some resource for some of the logs. I'm like you, I really hate taking down a big beautiful tree, I have a small Mill myself but I specifically bought a chainsaw Mill for just this sort of occasion where the log was just simply too big to haul with the equipment I had so now when I come across one I cut it up out on the job site and bring it home in slabs.
@leorbuis9024 thays a great solution too. I'm not well enough connected with the local slab market to pursue that, but if you have buyers, it's definitely a great move.
hey Zacc, personaly i would have loved to see some bits of the clean up and how long it took ?
Thanks for that feedback! I think we had the brush all chipped by early afternoon, and all the wood hauled off by 5pm it was a whole day project for sure!
Enjoyed the video. That was quite a tree. A fine job all around.
Thank you sir!
Do you have any recorded content showing your rigging process and possibly going step by step on how to rig onto a tree for climbing?
@@cjgarg mmm I don’t have all of that in any one video. I have some basics in a couple videos, but both rigging limbs down and setting up climbing systems are such complex subjects that I don’t think I could fit everything into a video that was less than several hours long.
Here is a video on my ascent system:
ua-cam.com/video/0nS9dLllZ1k/v-deo.html
Climbing anchors:
ua-cam.com/video/4yjbVgiqZsg/v-deo.html
GREAT JOB!!!!👏👏👏👏👏❤
Another Great job Zach! How old do you think that tree was?
@johnsmith-wd5sq Man, I wish I woukd have counted the rings. It was definitely older than the house. You coukd see an area in the rings where there got tighter all of a sudden ans stayed like that for 10 or 20 years. I think thats when they built the house and the tree probably struggled to recover from root damage for a little while after.
@@zaccheus White Oaks are very slow growers. A tree that size, my guess probably 300 Years!!!!!! I got a little sick watching this video. I have an amazing, Bur Oak probably bigger than this one and it shades most of my house most of the day. I have a big problem here with Oak wilt and to lose this tree, to me, would be a catastrophe. I've lost many trees over the last few years and its my worst night mare, and here these people cut down this magnificent specimen because of their stupid gutters!
@jima1269 I didn't clunt, but I don't think it was 300. The rings weren't super tight.
Just guess what I did yesterday I cut down two old dead trees they're not very big but they're twice as big as the one I did last year which was my first one I only use my little electric chainsaw a wedge and a two-dollar Hammer I bought my father for Father's Day when my weekly allowance was only 15 cents LOL. But the thing is I put them EXACTLY where I wanted to put them I didn't hit the power lines which was one way a road which was another way an old 55 Studebaker champ which was the other way and a building😂
As far as those trees in town near my garage I'm just chipping away at the branches bit by bit with a long pole saw and experimenting with a harness to try to climb a little. I'll get there I think about your videos all the time. Inspired
@deadmanswife3625 That's awesome! I'm so glad to hear that my videos have been inspirational to you! I remember when you told me about that first tree, and it sounds like you've come a long way already! I think you're doing it the best way possible and just doing a little bit more at a time. Trying to take on challenges too big too fast doesn't seem to work out all that well
Great Job happy to see this video hope more to follow
nice job felling the tree, the funs over now comes the work
@@jimsmith9819 haha yeah, no kidding 😂
Nice hinge tell Ken good job
Thanks zak looked bit yer. Then fell it' nice
Whouah, great job, with 2 anchor points!
@diegovd7215 Thanks! I'm sure we could have done it woth one, but it didn't cost us very much to set up two 🤷♂️
that was friggin awesome
Good job
@@geoffreygreen297 thanks!
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Nice fall 👍👍👍
@@johnsandell4501 thanks!
Awsome guys
Zach in the one picture looked like had fruiting bodies growing out of root flair. If so, although the tree looked healthy, it definitely needed to be removed because of the risk hazard. Tree would start showing crown decline next spring
@robertvannicolo4435 There was a fungus at the root flare, but that doesn't mean anything without identifying it. Some fungus benefits trees, some hurts them.
@zaccheus Zach from looking at base cut I will almost guarantee wood rot damaging fungus
@@robertvannicolo4435 could be 🤷♂️ I don't know a whole lot about fungi. I just know that a lot of them like to live off of either living or dead things
Just cuz the tree guy says there shouldn't be any problems with the septic field, it would be a good idea to get it checked. We had tree work done where limbs had to be dropped in the septic field. Tree guy swore everything would be ok. Well, it wasn't. One of the distribution boxes was crushed, and we ended up having to also replace a drain field. Better to get it checked now rather than finding out something was damaged after having a sewage back up.
@tinydancer7426 I own an excavating company and do tree work on the side. You're right that tree guys will say things like that to sell a job, and they shpuodnt comment on areas outside if their expertise. I just happen to have enough experience in both fields to make solid judgments when the two worlds collide. That doesn't mean I'm always right though. The best way would always be to get the field marked out. The challenging thing is getting the homeowner to cover the cost of the marking. It can be $400 to as much as a $1,000 in these parts.
wow thats a beautiful white oak deffinatly a shame it had to come down. i had to remove a huge burr oak for someone not to long ago because they were putting in a building for a shop where it was. it was quite sad. we didnt have the room to drop it like you though. we did get abunch of good firewood though from it. we have an old timer that comes in somtimes and splits and piles up firewood and spreads the chips to a big birm weve created over the years so the boss lets him keep the money he gets for selling the firewood since hes not on the payroll.
@@swere1240 oh nice! It is good to see trees go to something a little more than the mulch yard. I'm glad to hear someone will get some use out of it!
yeah a good portion of it did get chipped ill be honest but we normally only chip stuff thats around 12ish inches or smaller even though we have a 18 inch chipper. are boss says just because it can take an 18 inch log doesnt mean you should feed it one. and thats gotta be true because running those huge logs through it has gotta be more wear and tear to it in the long wrong and i know those chippers are not cheap lol. its a bandit 18xp intimidator i believe. ive been trying to convince the boss to get a grcs but still havnt talked him into it sadly. they are pretty spendy but they look so handy ill keep on asking till he finally gives in lol
@swere1240 thats probably wise. Running any equipment at maximum capacity all the time is probably hard on it. My next video is focused of the production boosting ability of the GRCS Mayne that'll sway him 😅
Have done a couple big radiatas. And down but still up. N dangerouse but you know' thanks
Nice send 👌
@@gregbrown9271 thanks!
4:44 How much is that doggie in the window? (Song from 1953)
@marymulrooney1334 Haha, good eye. My mother always used to quote that song. We saw him or her a few times while we were there.
Next will be the tree behind the house.
@@marymulrooney1334 That video is coming out next weekend 😅
Hi I had a tree removed from the front of my house , r u going to show how to remove the stump that was more exciting than watching the tree faul.
@mikeklein318 No, I don't do any stump grinding so I can't really show that. Stump grinders are impressive machines though. I've rented them upon occasion.
I never really understood why some fellers start with an angled notch instead of the flat side. You can't really make adjustments right or left to change where it falls. That is unless you want to make another big angle cut.
@stuby2014 It's the way all large companies train people to fall trees. The idea is that it's easier to match the cuts up at the apex. The reality is that once your well practiced at one or the other, it doesn't matter. You can get them lined up just fine. As you can see, Ken nailed this with the angled cut first. It's just all about preference 🤷♂️
That beautiful tree was worth more than the house including the owner. 🕉
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They're gonna miss that tree next summer when the house roasts and their AC bill goes thru the roof
@TealCheetah honestly, I think they might still miss it late this summer. But I guess the bill though through the roof is batter than the tree coming through the roof 🤷♂️
Can't even watch this one. Homeowners should be ashamed. Unless it had some serious issue, that tree is lovely.
@@geekay4703 I was a lovely tree, I was really sad to see it go
I have weight back too. And I'm wider than I am tall also.
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How many people want a beautiful White Oak that shades their house like this one did to install solar panels. DUH! 👎 That tree was probably there 200 years before that house was built!
The wind'
I can understand felling the tree very close to the house but I don't know why the tree in the middle of the yard was cut down except that people want everything to look like a golf course
I know man, they have three large beautiful oaks and a big cherry and we took all of them down. I hated it I woukd have happily lived under any of those trees. Next week's video will be about a tree in the backyard.
It was still pretty big and close to the house, likely cut out a lot of light? Perhaps a surveyor said they were causing issues. They hopefully have a plan to replant with something that won’t get so big.
@nicolad8822 you're right, it did present a risk to life and property. Not everyone is comfortable with that and so I understand. They took down every tree they had, so I'm not really sure what the motivation was.
That was sweet, pretty much a perfect shot.
@Demodad68 Ken did really well woth lining up the cuts and all.
I'm probably the only one on here that thinks removing it wasn't a bad decision. Yes, trees are beautiful and all, but they all present certain hazards. If a homeowner can't sleep well through a storm, that isn't good. Even if they just don't want moss on the roof, that is a valid concern. People's peace of mind, their lives, and their homes, and even their preferences matter more than trees. There's way more trees in the US than when the colonists landed nearly 300 years ago.
@4.0gpa44 you have some valid points, and I have referenced some of those exact ideas when dealing directly with customers in the past. There are certainly trees I would not feel comfortable sleeping under and other trees I'm that I would. I guess it just hurts a little more because the house was built under the tree.
Are there really more trees than before the colonists arrived? I wpuld definitely agree that there are more trees than 100 years ago, but I think thays more about agriculture moving out to the plains and being more productive there rather than the more forrested parts of the country that had ti be cleared. I'm nohistorian, but I was under the impression that Ohio for example was almost 100% wooded until the flat parts were cleared for agriculture.
@@zaccheusI'll have to do a little more research. I thought I read it an agriculture book or horticulture book somewhere that we had more trees now than when the colonists arrived, but most places online are saying we have more trees now than 100 years ago, and I read online we have 2/3rds of what we had in 1600. I think you're right that much of Ohio was cleared (I saw some old photographs in a pamphlet or book talking a bit about Ohio's history, of some huge trees settlers cut down). However some plains states have gotten more forested when they were just grassland previously. And there's areas in the southwest where few trees existed that probably have a few more due to irrigated landscapes including planted trees. Any which way, I'm not too concerned. There's the whole debate over whether the earth is really warming, and if so, are humans responsible, and if so, is there anything that can be done about it. Even in a fairly worst-case scenario, the small temperature increases from increased C02 wouldn't flood areas far inland. I doubt the precise accuracy of their temperature data due to things like expanding urbanization leading to a localized heat island effect at temperature monitoring stations, and errors in data sorting/compilation.
@4.0gpa44 I'm right there with you. I dint think things are as bad as folks want us to believe. When ice floating in water melts, it doesn't have the volume of the water at all. It's only the the ice on land that has the potential to increase the fluid volume of the ocean. Besides if there were a real threat, I don't think people woukd be investing so much in costal cities. I'm not scientist, but I think it's a little over hyped.
@zaccheus same people who hype it up, buy all the waterfront properties 😅.
Nice job.