Posted on 06/13/2023 6:22:14 PM PDT by Jonty30
Chopping down is the easy part. Cutting up is hard.
When I was a kid in Portland, we had a big maple tree in the back yard. It survived the 1962 Columbus Day storm, but came down in a windstorm a few years later. Most people would have got a chainsaw to cut the thing up, but my dad went to some estate sale and got an 8-foot crosscut saw instead. My brothers and I (and any friends we could talk into helping) spent more than a few hours with saw and splitting tools turning that tree into firewood. Great firewood, though; we were still burning pieces of that tree years later.
Color me unsympathetic.
Me dad had a big two man crosscut saw. There was a grenade-shaped handle at the second-man end. This being about 12 years after WW 2, I took that handle (which was loose) and heaved it in the woods with a big shout of “Grenade.” I couldn’t find it. Dad was really angry when he went to use the saw some time later and found there was no second-man handle.
Dad wasn’t a woodsman, I have no idea what he had the saw for, or what he was going to use it for. But he was still massively PO’d.
Awesome! Thanks.
This guy is smart.
Giant Sequoias are a protected plant species. If you plant one and it falls on your house, would you be able to hear your homeowner insurance company based in Bangor, Maine snickering in their little cubicles?
Reads like some some leftard’s revenge fantasy, and almost certainly false. Sequoia trees take about 50 years to hit 100 feet, not “a few years”. As 2-3 year old saplings, they would easily be removed.
“This is a cute story, but not all that believable”
FR published a news article WRT protected trees.
A California judge cut down dozens of redwoods that grew in an abutting city park to improve his view.
I read a story about a redwood deck that was being installed at Olivia Newton Johns home and she was asked about the endangered trees. She said the tree had already fallen...
Just like the liberals who take a private jet saying the jet was going their way.
Redwoods and sequoias may well be protected in California. What I found unbelievable was the statement that the trees would grow to be hundreds of feet tall in a few years.
I can not tell a lie. I chopped down the giant sequoia tree.
Not even a tulip poplar grows that fast
huh. that’s a neat idea. obscurely plant the seeds and create a forest of giant sequoias here and there.
The guy should have planted magic beans, except that they might not be protected.
If not allowed drill hole insert termites plug with cork wait.
Girdle them, let them die, then say they are a hazard. There is always some tyrant in local governments in California that will make life a living hell. I have known people fined massive amounts for oak trees that fell over naturally on their properties. I can only imagine what they would do for a sequoia.
And the giant problem.
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