Hallelujah! The trees are coming down!

That's a big tree!
 
This shows the scale of the oak's trunk with TCS, and the distance from the trunk to our front porch.
 

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These show the relative location between houses.
 

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I tried to show the total height of the trees but I couldn't get far back enough--the trees are too tall!
 

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That's great! We had our pine tree cut down last summer after it died. It was so tall!
 
Reba said:
Here is one of my cherry trees. You can see the blooms, and its relationship to the tree that will be cut down (the one with the white ribbon tied on it).
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BEautiful cherry trees. I can see the big tree that has to GO!
 
Reba said:
This shows the scale of the oak's trunk with TCS, and the distance from the trunk to our front porch.
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Yikes!! If a Category 4 or Category 5 hurricane hit that area, that tree would more than likely squash your house flat. Good thing you're getting them cut down before that happens.
 
There is a twenty foot saw log there on the oak. It is nice to get them without branches and big knots on that first section of tree. What kind of oak is that? Pardon me Reba I love trees, standing alive, and sawed up into useful material, both. Anything but looming over my house.
Quarter sawed that oak is some serious quality wood for gunstocks and furniture and tool handles etc. I know you have figured all that already. Here in Alaska where I live it is not very good wood. I still love it though.
 
goodonya said:
There is a twenty foot saw log there on the oak. It is nice to get them without branches and big knots on that first section of tree. What kind of oak is that? Pardon me Reba I love trees, standing alive, and sawed up into useful material, both. Anything but looming over my house.
Quarter sawed that oak is some serious quality wood for gunstocks and furniture and tool handles etc. I know you have figured all that already. Here in Alaska where I live it is not very good wood. I still love it though.
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How is it that the mighty oak isn't as good up there?
 
Nice pictures, Reba....boy, those trees....where they are, look ominous.
 
Tousi said:
How is it that the mighty oak isn't as good up there?
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There are no wild oak trees in Alaska. I wish there were. The mighty birch is our main hardwood and it is not so hard.
 
Well, the estimates are in:

$2,000

$2,600

$7,000

Obviously, we will have to go with the $2,000 (which is double what I wanted to pay). Now the problem is scheduling the service. They seem to be very busy.

The utilities have been marked and appear to not be a problem.
 
Tousi said:
Nice pictures, Reba....boy, those trees....where they are, look ominous.
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They are. Our master bedroom is in the upstairs front corner. Whenever there is a wind storm, I sleep downstairs.
 
goodonya said:
There is a twenty foot saw log there on the oak. It is nice to get them without branches and big knots on that first section of tree. What kind of oak is that?
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I forget which kind. I'll have to ask. Down here, pin oak, water oak, and live oak are common. I know it's not live oak because it dropped its leaves. It drops so many acorns that we can hardly walk on the front yard without rolling on them.

Pardon me Reba I love trees, standing alive, and sawed up into useful material, both. Anything but looming over my house.
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I love trees, too, and I hate to cut down the big oak but it's location is too close to the house. Its roots are pushing under our foundation. We will make good use of the firewood.

Quarter sawed that oak is some serious quality wood for gunstocks and furniture and tool handles etc. I know you have figured all that already. Here in Alaska where I live it is not very good wood. I still love it though.
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Sadly we aren't skilled in that kind of woodworking.
 
Reba said:
I tried to show the total height of the trees but I couldn't get far back enough--the trees are too tall!
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I can't believe that you had to wait so long to get the trees cuts down. I can't blame you for sleeping downstairs during wind storms. My mom had a weeping willow tree in the back and it fell down during a storm and amazingly the tree fell right between the house and garage missing both buildings by just a few feet.
 
Our Vancouver's Cherry trees blossoms in season (oc)

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Cherry trees come from the palest almost white to the darkest pink


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Cherry blossoms bloom in Vancouver - Lifestyle News - SINA English


US can be proud, too fo your Cherry blossoms - look at this gorgeous beaty
in Newark New Jersey

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Fuzzy
 
Reba said:
This shows the scale of the oak's trunk with TCS, and the distance from the trunk to our front porch.
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Same size like our house's side tree and we hate it so much. So later Almost half of tree fall down after BAD storm at high wind. So we had paid almost $1,500 to torn whole tree down. Thank god, it dont fall down at our house!
 
That's going to be fun to watch them cut it down but nerve whacking I imagine! I would be nervous.
 
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