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catsittingstillThe House has a tree. Well, more than one, actually. But one of them is dead--so dead that shards of its bark are lying around it on the ground. It is quite a big tree and could easily fall on The House, or the neighbor's house, which would definitely not start our relationship off on the right foot. So this morning I called a couple of tree services. I was hoping that it was only a few dead branches and that part of The Tree could be saved, but the guy who could actually come out and look at it today said that the buds on the Tree's branch tips are its last ditch effort to make a few more seeds before it falls over. He pointed to the lines of woodpecker holes that go all the way down to where the roots begin, and said that this was a dead tree, a goner tree, a tree that was pining for the fjords. (He didn't put it quite that way but that was what he meant.)
He can cut down the tree (leaving the last 8 feet or so for the woodpeckers, at my request) and leave it in a "manageable pile" for firewood, or cut it down, chip the green parts (for garden mulch) and haul the dead parts away, whichever I like, though the second option is 475$ and the first is only 300$.
Kip is of the opinion that some of his friends at work burn firewood for part of their heating and would be glad to haul the carcass (or parts of the carcass) away for free. Plus I just checked, and wood chips are about 13$ per "bobcat scoop" which I suspect is 3 or 4 cubic feet. So it would take a lot of wood chips to make 175$ worth. I wonder what he would charge to chip the small messy stuff and leave the firewood sized stuff?
Locksmith and second opinion on The Tree coming tomorrow. Plus a friend of mine wants my picture (on my bike) for the local paper (article about bike trails-to-come). It will be a busy day.
He can cut down the tree (leaving the last 8 feet or so for the woodpeckers, at my request) and leave it in a "manageable pile" for firewood, or cut it down, chip the green parts (for garden mulch) and haul the dead parts away, whichever I like, though the second option is 475$ and the first is only 300$.
Kip is of the opinion that some of his friends at work burn firewood for part of their heating and would be glad to haul the carcass (or parts of the carcass) away for free. Plus I just checked, and wood chips are about 13$ per "bobcat scoop" which I suspect is 3 or 4 cubic feet. So it would take a lot of wood chips to make 175$ worth. I wonder what he would charge to chip the small messy stuff and leave the firewood sized stuff?
Locksmith and second opinion on The Tree coming tomorrow. Plus a friend of mine wants my picture (on my bike) for the local paper (article about bike trails-to-come). It will be a busy day.
