eelgrass
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I have a redwood tree on my property that has given me grief ever since we moved here in 1974. After we built the house I climbed it and topped it. It grew a new top and that blew out and smashed a couple of my fruit trees. It grew three more tops and got tall enough to reach the house so I hired a guy to climb it and cut those off for $1300. It started growing more new tops so I decided to kill it. It grew from an old stump that was logged probably 100 years ago. Here's the old stump, or what's left of it. It's at least 12' diameter.
In the upper right of this photo you can see where they cut a notch to hold a spring board to stand on to fell it. At some point a fire came through as you can see.
I cut a strip of bark and sap wood out all the way around it and it finally gave up the ghost. It's about 5' diameter.
One of my neighbors walked by and said that tree got a disease. It got a disease all right. It got a bad case of Stihl disease.
In the upper right of this photo you can see where they cut a notch to hold a spring board to stand on to fell it. At some point a fire came through as you can see.
I cut a strip of bark and sap wood out all the way around it and it finally gave up the ghost. It's about 5' diameter.
One of my neighbors walked by and said that tree got a disease. It got a disease all right. It got a bad case of Stihl disease.