On the farm we're getting a lot of volunteer pines and spruce in the fields to
the point where I've stopped planting new, mother nature does a better job for
free, why would I pay for trees?
So anyway now I spend most of my time either transplanting trees to places we
do want them or mowing down the trees we don't want, like where they're too
close together.
What I've found interesting is if you take two trees about 2" diameter a spruce
and a pine when you mow down the pine you get a big "WHACK" and the tree is
gone, sliced right off. With a spruce or fir the tree bends down, you drive
over it with the lawnmower chopping off the branches on that side, then it
springs back up after you pass. Turn around and go back and you chop the
branches off the other side. Run over it 4 more times and it MIGHT get cut off.
Usually once all the branches are gone I leave it, next spring the stick will
pull out of the ground when I run over it.
And thats why we build houses out of spruce...
-Curt
From: Max Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Cc: Max Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2016 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Latest track
Those oaks were there for Hugo, I suspect most will weather this just fine.
Pine trees are the big danger, they snap off mid trunk. THAT is a missile
hazard, but at least they don't travel far.
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
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