More Boxelder removal pics

[mic687]

Fair sized tree I removed last week if you have ever removed or trimmed one you know all the low limb angles can pose problems. Did a fair amount of limb walking because of the service drop, sheds, and a small garden with a rabbit fence around it. The tree was removed because it had already taken out the power twice and it was showing signs of faliure ie cracked limbs and rot in part of the trunk.

 

[mic687]

more pics

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[jefflovstrom]

Thought this was a removal, how long to the stump pic, kinda redundant.
Jeff

 

[mic687]

last set

 

[jefflovstrom]

Good job.
Jeff

 

[mic687]

Thought this was a removal, how long to the stump pic, kinda redundant.
Jeff

Jeff showin some love. The stump is in the last set which came right after your post. Ok maybe a little rdundant but it does have a happy ending, check in hand drivring away.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Ah, you got me! Just busting your nads. Good job!!
Jeff
Now, when you goona grind that stump!? lol

 

[treevet]

nice job. awful big for a boxelder.

 

[NCTREE]

biggest boxelder iv'e ever seen, looks more like a poplar

 

[beowulf343]

biggest boxelder iv'e ever seen, looks more like a poplar

Really? There's several bigger than that up in Rochester, and two others that i ran across last year in Westfield that made that one look small. I'd almost be willing to say that's an average boxelder size around here.
Common problem tree in the winter here, they get too big and the snow piles up on the big horizontal branches.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Never saw one that big myself either. They normally fall apart long before that. Good job, mic. How long it take ya?

 

[jefflovstrom]

Yeah, common trees in different climate zones make for big differences. I bet if euc's grew back east, they would max at 15 feet! Haha! I was in a thread with a guy has a 3120 and wonders how much it is worth to sell it. Say's not that much use for a saw that big. Shoot, I got three and could always use another.
Jeff

 

[Blakesmaster]

Yeah, common trees in different climate zones make for big differences.

Beowulf's not far north of me but he's been around a bit more.

 

[mic687]

Never saw one that big myself either. They normally fall apart long before that. Good job, mic. How long it take ya?

Blakes it was about 8hrs climbing, Came down early Friday as the winds got fairly high. So I packed up and continued on my way to remove a Maple on someones roof and to stand up and then pull over a nasty uprooted and rotten poplar that was hung up in a white pine not a bad day after all. Without all the obsticals like 3hrs but then they would not need me. Have to bid a large chinese elm for the neighbor.

 

[beowulf343]

Beowulf's not far north of me but he's been around a bit more.

Lol, not so much "been around more" but being a full time removal guy, silver maples, cottonwoods, and boxelders are my staples. I probably see 20-25 boxelders a month. And since i usually get called in at the point they've gotten too big, my thoughts on boxelder size may be a little inflated from what the norm actually is.

 

[mic687]

Yeah, common trees in different climate zones make for big differences. I bet if euc's grew back east, they would max at 15 feet! Haha! I was in a thread with a guy has a 3120 and wonders how much it is worth to sell it. Say's not that much use for a saw that big. Shoot, I got three and could always use another.
Jeff

I had another tree guy tell me we don't have big enough trees around here to justify my ms650 and then I see him on a job cutting a stump with a 660. I don't use the 650 on every job but it is nice to have when I do need it. I lived in Santa Barbara, Vallejo, And Davis Ca. and in SB we had some mighty big Euc's, I miss those trees.

 

[treevet]

Lol, not so much "been around more" but being a full time removal guy, silver maples, cottonwoods, and boxelders are my staples. I probably see 20-25 boxelders a month. And since i usually get called in at the point they've gotten too big, my thoughts on boxelder size may be a little inflated from what the norm actually is.

they get verticillium wilt religiously around here. it stunts them and eventually kills them if they don't get yanked from just being dog ugly by the ho first (dead tops and lateral ends). you will find red discoloration in the sapwood.

 

[jefflovstrom]

I had another tree guy tell me we don't have big enough trees around here to justify my ms650 and then I see him on a job cutting a stump with a 660. I don't use the 650 on every job but it is nice to have when I do need it. I lived in Santa Barbara, Vallejo, And Davis Ca. and in SB we had some mighty big Euc's, I miss those trees.

Why did you leave this market. We survive the worst economies because of our Nanny state makes trees a liability?
Good to meet ya!
Jeff

 

[mic687]

biggest boxelder iv'e ever seen, looks more like a poplar

The bark does look close to a big cottonwood but it was for sure a boxelder had a nice flame pattern in the middle and it didn't stink like the ####ens when you cut it.

 

[NCTREE]

they get verticillium wilt religiously around here. it stunts them and eventually kills them if they don't get yanked from just being dog ugly by the ho first (dead tops and lateral ends). you will find red discoloration in the sapwood.

So thats what the red streaks are?

I cut one down last week actaully it was pretty big for a boxelder around here 28" It had a big trunk wound that was healing over and the red streaks in the wood. It seemed to codit very well from the wound, it had very little rot.