Historic Willow Oak taken out

[Tom Dunlap]

I was at a tree conference here and the Modesto CA Urban forestry manager said the same thing that Dadatwins was talking about that potential liability governs many tree decisions.

What a bunch of BS!!!

I've asked this question for years and I challenge anyone to find the answer. If cabling trees does really show that the tree acknowledged a hazard and didn't eliminate the hazard, where is a lawsuit? Site chapter and verse!!!

CAbling/bracing and other methods of hazard reduction are sound and accepted parts of arborculture.

The thinking of those forestry managers, good name, they obviously aren't arborists, is faulty. Their same line of thinking would change this scenario:

The traffic flow on a cross street warrants the installation of four way stop signs. Fine and dandy. But then along comes Knut Knucklehead and he runs the stop sign and t-bones another car, resulting in a death. What do the forestry managers do? Add stop lights. Then, the same thing happens all over again. Now there are two deaths. What is the next option? Block off the intersection and make it into a park. Plant a tree in the middle of the intersection. The trees win!

 

[Dadatwins]

wow Dadatwins, I guess you keep your kids locked up safe in their rooms.
Dont go outside the sky is falling!

that's the kind of comment that exemplifies the "sissification of the USA"

and you can thank the bureacrats, liberals and lawyers for having to take out that tree

Yikes, I guess I should pre-empt any further comments about kids falling off logs with a sarcasm ahead disclaimer.

 

[Mike Barcaskey]

sorry if I missed the sarcasm Dadatwins, I tend to take it all at face value
not aimed at you, just the statement
isn't it amazing we all grew up drinking out of the garden hose, riding bikes with out helmets, no seatbelts and sharing pre-chewed bubble gum?

 

[Dadatwins]

sorry if I missed the sarcasm Dadatwins, I tend to take it all at face value
not aimed at you, just the statement
isn't it amazing we all grew up drinking out of the garden hose, riding bikes with out helmets, no seatbelts and sharing pre-chewed bubble gum?

Apology accepted, and those were the days, weren't they.