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TreePapa

TreePapa

Minister of Fire
Dec 24, 2008
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Southern Calif.
They just keep coming, don't they:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/zip/1805773599.html

FREE. Gigantic redwood tree (Eagle Rock)
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Date: 2010-06-22, 4:06PM PDT
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This redwood tree is breaking my little house's foundations and I need it gone. I promise to plant 2 instead within the property.
The tree is about 6' in diameter and red wood is expensive. I assume someone out there should know how to make money out of this and I can get rid of the tree and save my house.
I estimate the height to be around 40'. It's been chopped before otherwise it would be twice as tall.
Thanks.

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With the size of the tree, and how close it is to the house, I doubt this guy can get a licensed tree service to remove this tree for less than $1,000 (perhaps a lot more $$$) in So. Calif.

Slick.

Peace,
- Sequoia
 

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That beautiful old majestic redwood should never have been topped...can't see up there, but those trees don't take well to that kind of butchery. The dang house should have been razed, and another built at a respectable distance. What a shame. The tree used to be worth more than the house. I love Redwoods. Rick (native Californian)
 
fossil said:
That beautiful old majestic redwood should never have been topped...can't see up there, but those trees don't take well to that kind of butchery. The dang house should have been razed, and another built at a respectable distance. What a shame. The tree used to be worth more than the house. I love Redwoods. Rick (native Californian)
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Treehugger! :lol:


I say burn them both down. The tree because it's obviously in pain for being topped and the owner because he's stupid enough not to see that a tree that big would cause foundation problems and also because he's stupid enough to try to get an unqualified person to cut a 6 foot tree near his house.

Matt
 
How much would a small crane, a big saw and a mill cost to rent for a weekend?
 
More than stupid guy is willing to pay. Or he may be smart. If he knows it's above his ability and doesn't want to cut a leg off.

Would a small crane work? I'm thinking that once you start sectioning the trunk those pieces are going to be real heavy if they are 4-feet at the top.

Matt
 
EatenByLimestone said:
...Treehugger! :lol:...
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Some I hug, Matt...others I burn (but I figure you know at least that much about me by now). Redwoods I'd much rather hug than burn. %-P Rick
 
8 foot logs are maybe 3 or 4 ton at the top? If it was a little shorter you could park an excavator near it and throw a chain around it. I threw my 30" locust trees around like twigs with a 12 ton hoe.
 
SolarAndWood said:
How much would a small crane, a big saw and a mill cost to rent for a weekend?
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airfair couple nights out on the town 100.00 bucks an hour and I will save you the crane fee! priceless.....
 
A redwood is a beautiful tree, if it grows in a place where it can grow tall and survive on its own. In southern Cal I think they rely on irrigation to survive - too hot and dry, and they usually look kind of stressed. This tree is probably full of nails and clotheslines, since it is in a backyard, so I wouldn't be in a big hurry to run it through my mill, if I had one.
 
If the tree is worth more than the house then the house has to go! :coolgrin:

zap
 
Wood Duck said:
A redwood is a beautiful tree, if it grows in a place where it can grow tall and survive on its own. In southern Cal I think they rely on irrigation to survive - too hot and dry, and they usually look kind of stressed. This tree is probably full of nails and clotheslines, since it is in a backyard, so I wouldn't be in a big hurry to run it through my mill, if I had one.
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where your sense of adventure heck that's an easy drop, easy milling, and the home owner would feed you milk and Cookie's all day long! (oh and see hot!) and beer after hours.....
 
SolarAndWood said:
8 foot logs are maybe 3 or 4 ton at the top? If it was a little shorter you could park an excavator near it and throw a chain around it. I threw my 30" locust trees around like twigs with a 12 ton hoe.
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Probably easier to wrap a chain around the house and drag it over a couple feet. They would have these problems if they just built the house on stilts like everyone else. They'll be missing the shade once they do cut it down.
 
You have to wonder about what goes through someone's mind when they either built the house right on top of the tree or when they planted a freaking redwood within two strides of the foundation of their house...its a redwood...you know its going to get really big.

where your sense of adventure heck that’s an easy drop
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Probably easier than I think, but thats a freaking huge trunk to go through with my 18" saw. You'd have to take out massive chunks and slowly work your way in until you're actualyl working inside the stump before the ovehead mass pulls it over.

Be pretty cool to watch it come down though...gotta be 20+ tons of tree there. Way cooler if it was near a lake or a pond.
 
smokinjay said:
Wood Duck said:
A redwood is a beautiful tree, if it grows in a place where it can grow tall and survive on its own. In southern Cal I think they rely on irrigation to survive - too hot and dry, and they usually look kind of stressed. This tree is probably full of nails and clotheslines, since it is in a backyard, so I wouldn't be in a big hurry to run it through my mill, if I had one.
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where your sense of adventure heck that's an easy drop, easy milling, and the home owner would feed you milk and Cookie's all day long! (oh and see hot!) and beer after hours.....
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we can get this guy to do it, what do you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJTJ5OA4HU

zap
 
zapny said:
smokinjay said:
Wood Duck said:
A redwood is a beautiful tree, if it grows in a place where it can grow tall and survive on its own. In southern Cal I think they rely on irrigation to survive - too hot and dry, and they usually look kind of stressed. This tree is probably full of nails and clotheslines, since it is in a backyard, so I wouldn't be in a big hurry to run it through my mill, if I had one.
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where your sense of adventure heck that's an easy drop, easy milling, and the home owner would feed you milk and Cookie's all day long! (oh and see hot!) and beer after hours.....
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we can get this guy to do it, what do you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJTJ5OA4HU

zap
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Yep I like that guy not afraid to get-r-done bet he could drive a pin with this tree!
 
Looking at it again, my estimate of $1,000 to have it removed by a pro is probably far too low.

I s'pect the tree was planted long before the homeowner bought the house. And I s'pect, knowing the area, that the lot is far too small to remove even the part of the house that's within, say, 10 feet of the tree and rebuilt elsewhere. Which, would, of course, cost even more than removing the tree correctly.

Mebbe he should turn the whole house into a tree house?

And I think there was a bit of a redwood craze in So. Calif., maybe 30 or 40 years ago judging from the size of several in neighborhoods near where I live. Most of the homeowners, however, were at least smart enough to plant them as far away from the house as they could. So the roots can damage the sidewalk, the curb, and/or the street, rather than the home's foundation. And yes, most of them look heat streesed. It's too bloody hot here for Sequoia's (this one inlcuded).

Peace,
- Sequoia
 
TreePapa said:
Looking at it again, my estimate of $1,000 to have it removed by a pro is probably far too low.

I s'pect the tree was planted long before the homeowner bought the house. And I s'pect, knowing the area, that the lot is far too small to remove even the part of the house that's within, say, 10 feet of the tree and rebuilt elsewhere. Which, would, of course, cost even more than removing the tree correctly.

Mebbe he should turn the whole house into a tree house?

And I think there was a bit of a redwood craze in So. Calif., maybe 30 or 40 years ago judging from the size of several in neighborhoods near where I live. Most of the homeowners, however, were at least smart enough to plant them as far away from the house as they could. So the roots can damage the sidewalk, the curb, and/or the street, rather than the home's foundation. And yes, most of them look heat streesed. It's too bloody hot here for Sequoia's (this one inlcuded).

Peace,
- Sequoia
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I'll send some cool air your way, dropped to 48 degrees last night.

zap
 
TreePapa said:
Looking at it again, my estimate of $1,000 to have it removed by a pro is probably far too low.

I s'pect the tree was planted long before the homeowner bought the house. And I s'pect, knowing the area, that the lot is far too small to remove even the part of the house that's within, say, 10 feet of the tree and rebuilt elsewhere. Which, would, of course, cost even more than removing the tree correctly.

Mebbe he should turn the whole house into a tree house?

And I think there was a bit of a redwood craze in So. Calif., maybe 30 or 40 years ago judging from the size of several in neighborhoods near where I live. Most of the homeowners, however, were at least smart enough to plant them as far away from the house as they could. So the roots can damage the sidewalk, the curb, and/or the street, rather than the home's foundation. And yes, most of them look heat streesed. It's too bloody hot here for Sequoia's (this one inlcuded).

Peace,
- Sequoia
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Either a great climber or a crane to take that one out and both would eat that thousand up before lunch! lol
 
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