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Came across this article today -- "Aerial surveys conducted through [Rhode Island] DEM have shown that while mortality varies from one area to another, approximately two-thirds of the oak trees in the state have died,"...

Sorry for the long delay...I'm pretty sure it was Scotland, Conn. You don't always have town line signs along the back roads.

We're at a point that just looking at inflation doesn't give us a good picture of just how big of an investment $600 or so in 1940 was. $10,000 is the inflated monetary value. We've changed so much as a society since 1940 one needs to look at "Purchasing Power Parity" type numbers, like we use...

WTF...saw this today, never seen trees being taken down leaving the trunks standing. But I'm guessing it is that town's way for stretching their dollars -- have the tree companies just get the dangerous part of as many trees down as they can. These are probably far enough off the road not to...

Hopefully I'll have time tonight to finish going through my pictures I've taken this summer through last weekend...here's a few previews. (Gack...sorry about the size for anyone without a good internet connection...I ran a batch job last night that I thought was making smaller 1024x something...

Article out of Mass: http://www.telegram.com/news/20180912/iconic-quabbin-tree-one-of-thousands-succumbing-to-gypsy-moth-damage The lands owned outright for Boston's reservoirs have lost 2,000 / 80,000 acres -- 2.5%, and they sounded quite pessimistic that they're going to have another bad year...

Nice article that just came out. https://blog.extension.uconn.edu/2018/08/29/the-slow-storm-tree-mortality-in-ct-from-invasive-insect-pests/ We're on the edge of the EAB (its been detected but it is not endemic yet), so that's another 5-10 years. Had bad gypsy moth damage for a couple years...

Probably the biggest drawback is I didn't realize the visual impact of the external conduit. Poor research on my part, I thought the lines were mainly run inside the walls. Already had a pad from a previous screen porch to put the outside unit on. They ran the lines for the living room unit...

Follow up with six weeks under the belt with a large (one outside unit, two inside head...I think they said 23k BTU capacity)... Woodstove hasn't been re-installed yet, because the contractors need to reinstall the chimney (I don't trust my recently healed knee to do that much work off a ladder...

In my neck of the woods if the state or power company take down a tree along your property line and you don't mark the wood as spoken for nature takes it course and the native New England Woodboga cleans it up in a day like a dung beetle cleaning the Serengeti. (State Highway in this area...

So that knee? Took until (late) August to heal enough that I could finally start working on this pile. I'm still having to be careful, and my stamina is shot not being that physically active for a year until mid-July when I was finally healed enough I could go to the ocean and get in the salt...

It's all electric appliances, plus garage, and is already 200A through the meter. So you're only talking about the cost of the 20' of cable from the meter to the panel if the electrician 20 years ago didn't oversize it when the fuse box was replaced with a 100A panel...which knowing him he...

Thanks guys. Reading up on them, it's clear the technology (on the heating side) has dramatically improved in the last ten years...which makes a lot of internet stuff already obsolete. Waiting for the final quote, going to take a two-head 23,000 but system which I know is a going to add a...

Long story short: Looking at a Mitsubishi ductless HyperHeat system for a 650 s.f. soon-to-be well insulated ranch house in Connecticut. It will "officially" be the central heating system. Reality is I've heated exclusively with wood for 10+ years except for the extreme ends of the heating...

Was trying to find the Silvy / Borntrager tree jacks to show someone who thought some (very professional) German tree cutters were yahoos for using a jack... And I found this...thing. At 1:30 in. http://www.norwoodsawmills.com/products-log-skidding/timbertool-tree-felling-jack Complete...

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I've been hobbling around with a torn Lateral Collateral Ligament since September...and in between tore my meniscus. In other words I've been pretty miserable. (Today is probably the first day since October I was walking around without any pain, granted I need to wrap up my knee for extra...

No, the Swedes are the dumb blonds.

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