Yea, CA locked down hard. She decided to postpone, but blamed me. Whatever, her family hates me anyway.
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Desertbreh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:40 pm My guess would be that Chris took some time off because he has read the dialogue on this page 1,345 times and decided to spend some of his free time doing something besides beating a horse to death.
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Oh totally! We'll be secluded in our hill in Northern MI through the end of the year. Might do some adventures around the area, but that's it. Will be doing some tree cutting around the house
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:40 pm My guess would be that Chris took some time off because he has read the dialogue on this page 1,345 times and decided to spend some of his free time doing something besides beating a horse to death.
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We've got 8-12 to take down, maybe more. Working to get our water view more permanent.
Will probably take down 1-2 per day. The hardest part of the job isn't cutting the tree down, it's cutting it up and stacking the wood somewhere.
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Cutting all the branches down to a size that would fit in yard waste bags was bitch. I'd do that while FIL chopped the trunk down into 1 ft logs and he'd always finish first. I do have tons of firewood .
Additionally, once we had the tree down to a 3 ft stump, I dug a trench around the base of the stump so we could cut it below ground level. Then, once the dirt was refilled, you can't even tell there was a tree there.
We have 4 more to go, which we'll tackle in the spring. Then we plant arborvitaes, lots of them.
I have some pics I can post up.
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Oof, dealing with cutting up branches for yard bags would be We've been bundling ours to use as kindling.wap wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:48 am
Cutting all the branches down to a size that would fit in yard waste bags was bitch. I'd do that while FIL chopped the trunk down into 1 ft logs and he'd always finish first. I do have tons of firewood .
Additionally, once we had the tree down to a 3 ft stump, I dug a trench around the base of the stump so we could cut it below ground level. Then, once the dirt was refilled, you can't even tell there was a tree there.
We have 4 more to go, which we'll tackle in the spring. Then we plant arborvitaes, lots of them.
I have some pics I can post up.
Nice work cutting below grade, would love to see some pics!
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Why take the trees down? They grew too tall? Not enough privacy with the lower branches toast?
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Once those remaining 4 pines on the left come down we'll plant arborvitaes along the left property line, the sidewalk, and again on the right, forming a 3 sided private yard with a fire pit in the middle, eventually.
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And once the new arborvitaes are planted we'll remove those you see in the background, which are surrounding and enclosing our little patio. The new, larger space will be quite , I think.
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That's going to be fantastic! Great idea.
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Both. You can see in some of the pics how the lower branches are all dead and bare so their original privacy function was gone. Plus, they started growing into the oak canopy above and I didn't want them to mess with our giant, old oaks. I'll keep the arborvitaes trimmed to about 6 ft tall.
When we moved in those pines were literally only about 4 ft high and planted in a double row, which made mowing around them a bitch. In fact, for the first few years that we lived there, I'd cut down a tree from the inner row and put it up in our dinette and decorate it for Christmas. I got several years of trees that way until the inner row was gone and we bought a fake tree for the dinette.
Plus, as the pines got taller they blocked so much sun that it became impossible for grass to grow in that area, as you can see by the expanse of brown instead of green.
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Thanks. Still deciding on how to landscape the new area. I'm honestly leaning toward sections and paths of different colored stone, like pea gravel, with a few strategically planted shrubs or bushes or whatever. Minimal maintenance while still be aesthetically pleasing is the goal. Maybe a couple different seating areas with stone benches, bistro table and chairs, and paving stones around the fire pit with more seating. In4suggestions.
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