I finally killed it!

[eelgrass]

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.

 

[HntHrdr]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Big old piece of timber! Did you fell it yourself?

 

[Wiszard]

Some trees are like UTI's.....unnecessary.

 

[SS!]

Why

 

[tailchasers]

So many want to preserve vs those that have no clue how much of a weed those SOB"s can be.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

That old stump is really cool.

 

[eelgrass]

Why

So I could sleep at night. I still have about 50 more on the property.

 

[eelgrass]

Big old piece of timber! Did you fell it yourself?

No but there's a chance one of my wife's relatives did.

 

[elkassassin]

RINGIN A Redwood In KALI Huh?

That's Gotta Be A Violation!

 

[HntHrdr]

Chopping down 60-80 ft firs is like child’s play compared to that beast, I bet the wind blew it over happens when they die

 

[Bluehair]

You MUST carve something out of that magnificent stump.

 

[JPickett]

In 49 years it never occurred to you to just cut the thing down?

 

[eelgrass]

In 49 years it never occurred to you to just cut the thing down?

Great question.

Before we built, my FIL fell some trees where the house is now. He wanted to fall that one too but I said no. Now the septic tank and a shed is on one side and the county road is down below it. The only option would be to take it down in pieces, which I might still do. I didn't plan on living this long.

 

[JPickett]

I didn't plan on living this long

There’s gotta be a lesson in there for the rest of us somewhere but I don’t have the energy right now to figure it out. I’m sure another Californian on here will be by shorty to man splain it

 

[eelgrass]

Last February I spent $3300 having these redwood trees topped behind the garage too.

 

[elkassassin]

3300.00?

GEEZUS That's Redwood!

They Should Be Paying You Eel!

 

[eelgrass]

Redwood trees are beautiful to look at but not beautiful to live next to.

 

[2lumpy]

Redwood wood is beautiful. Giant redwood stumps are awesome. Redwood trees below the branch/leaf line are stately. Above the branch line, they resemble a rats nest. Sure wish I had ten feet off one of those stately cylinders to make some tables out of.

I do understand your sleepless nights eel. I have a pine in my back yard that’s funky and getting big. A nasty wind could now lay a heavy section either on my garage or my house. Someday…….. hopeful after I’m nothing more than an unpleasant memory, somebodies gonna have to address it.

 

[Homer]

so....dead trees fall on houses less often than live trees?

 

[eelgrass]

so....dead trees fall on houses less often than live trees?

As long as the dead ones aren't tall enough to reach the house they can fall whenever they want. This one is not getting any taller. Whew!

 

[eelgrass]

Last January.

Tree Falls on Arcata Home During Storm, Injures at Least One

Two people were trapped in the upstairs of the home.

kymkemp.com

 

[feddoc]

Last January.

Tree Falls on Arcata Home During Storm, Injures at Least One

Two people were trapped in the upstairs of the home.

kymkemp.com

Arcata....was there a nickel factory there at one time? When I spent my one summer there some of the locals told me about it.

 

[eelgrass]

Arcata....was there a nickel factory there at one time? When I spent my one summer there some of the locals told me about it.

I haven't heard about that. I think Arcata is the world's biggest hippie factory though. They fly the Earth Flag above the American flag.

Moving Earth flag above American flag in Arcata is reportedly legal

The Earth flag is just a few days away from making its way to the top of the flag pole, after an associate professor at Cal Poly Humboldt says, the City of Arca

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