Tree removal (2025 Update)

Most of those just involve taking too big a bite. When the guys took out a tree for me they cut it up in pieces right up there in the tree. The guy said he had to cut it up anyway so why take a chance with a piece too big to handle. Pretty much every piece was cut off and lowered on a rope. It still went fast and by the time he was working on the trunk, the rest of it was packed up in his truck and trailer by the helper.

Hey, Ed. Fifty dollars is $50. Money doesn't grow on..er...trees.

I had a Bradford pear tree that was about 50 feet tall next to the house cut down this summer. Three men came out in a bucket truck and the man in the bucket went up and cut down most of the tree. The 2 men on the ground put the limbs in a chipper and blew it into a compartment on the bucket truck. The larger limbs were laid on the ground and something like one of the small bulldozers or bobcats loaded the larger ones on another truck. No damage to the house and not too much to the ground. In about 2 hours they were finished.

I don't know how they will burn, but I did have them save a few limbs that were about 3 to 5 inches in diameter and cut to about 2 feet long to save for fire wood. I would have saved more of it,but did not have a good place to put more out of the weather and off the ground.

S*it you're ugly.

That's something you can never unsee. ;-)

They are weeds down here you can hardly kill. It is illegal to even plant one in a lot of places. That one was 60-70 feet high before the hurricanes knocked the top out (twice). It sprayed tree limbs like this all over the yard

There are lots of little "dish garden" plants you see up north that are noxious weeds in the sub tropics.

True. I tried eyewash but it didn’t help any.

Yeah, but you don't live in a tropical paradise. I wouldn't mind a fig tree in the yard but it's not happening here in winter wonderland. Fresh figs are something else.

Strangler fig trees take over trees and actually smother and kill them. They are in the ficus family but not exactly the same. Fig trees is another animal all together - you get figs.

Ficus and banyon trees can take over sewer pipes that cause havoc on house foundations and plumbing pipes.

That's useless. I remember seeing the banyan at Edison's place in Ft. Myers. I guess it was in a pot when he planted it and now (well, back in the '80s) it's its own little forest.

There were some kind of nasty purple things coming off of it all the time but I never ate one.

My neighbors found out why you never cut off those roots that drop down. That is all that is holding up the tree.

I I've been under that tree. The Ft Myers cemetery has one just as big. I could tell stories about that tree. My brother used to drop a white ghost sheet at cars, on a branch, via a small rope. Coops used to hide behind the tree trunk to catch speeders. Carved names in it. DO NOT stand on the sprawling roots when lightning strikes

Henry Ford and Edison were looking for rubber for ford tires;)

I still have some bamboo in my yard from Edison's experiments on the light bulb filament material. He had the Koreshans growing different varieties and the one I stole is the "clump" stuff that does not spread. Unfortunately the Koreshan Park is over run with the stuff that does. It is still pretty neat stuff. I lined the walls of 2 enclosures in my screen cage with split bamboo, all from the clump behind my house that I planted 15-20 years ago. (harvested along the river)

I am certainly not climbing up in a tree or standing on a ladder with a chain saw but I do feel pretty good on an articulated lift so I can be above the limb I am cutting and it falls away from the machine. You still want to take little bites at it. Like my Mexican guy said, you have to cut it up anyway.

Is that you!

How could you get a plant that big in your house?

That was the easy part. The bitch was lifting it out of the pot when it needed to be repotted.

Cindy Hamilton

Years ago I had a 75 year old neighbor killed when he was cutting a partially downed tree which then fell on him.

Next door neighbor nearly killed when a tree fell on her and the house when she went out to straighten up an inside out umbrella in a wind storm.

I also met a heroine addict whose addiction started from pain killers used when he was injured working as a tree cutter.