- Location
- North of Boston
My wifes family has been telling me about this giant white pine that is falling apart over their house in VT. I told them all summer I would do it. Soooo......Me, wife, twins, and my wifes cousin (also an Arborist @ same company), drove 2.5 hours each way to do this tree sight unseen!
We were told it measured 9' circumference @ base. When we got there, sure it enough it was a decent sized tree, and tall. First impression was a co-dominant white pine, included bark, semi buried root crown, it had mushrooms @ base, a very large scar just above the co-dom on the main leader, lots of deadwood, and another fresh large scar @ the 60' mark that was roughly 10' long where another co-dom had tore out in the spring.
The tree sat 15' from the house to one side, 5' from the woods and river (with the only bridge onto the property!) to the other side, power lines 20' behind the tree, and woods 75' ahead straight down a 20' wide alleyway along the
house.
We removed a couple small Hemlocks straight ahead, pruned some deadwood off some firs to make room, and then created a small inconspicuous path to drag brush into the woods. It actually made the property shine by taking down these few trees, and dead wooding the 4-5 firs that we did. We will be back later this year or next to deadwood the rest of the 2 acres of land that are exposed to the yard, river, house.
Tree was down, brush all dragged deep into woods, and cut up into movable chunks in 3.5 hours total with 3 guys, one has never done tree work before.
When all was said and done the tree measured 100' tall and 36" DBH, that main leader flared out ABOVE the co-dom to 40"+! Very weird growth pattern. We dealt with overcast, rainy morning, followed by a sunny windy, winds were 30-40 mph when I was blowing the tops out, day. Temps were in the mid to high 40's all day.
We were told it measured 9' circumference @ base. When we got there, sure it enough it was a decent sized tree, and tall. First impression was a co-dominant white pine, included bark, semi buried root crown, it had mushrooms @ base, a very large scar just above the co-dom on the main leader, lots of deadwood, and another fresh large scar @ the 60' mark that was roughly 10' long where another co-dom had tore out in the spring.
The tree sat 15' from the house to one side, 5' from the woods and river (with the only bridge onto the property!) to the other side, power lines 20' behind the tree, and woods 75' ahead straight down a 20' wide alleyway along the
house.
We removed a couple small Hemlocks straight ahead, pruned some deadwood off some firs to make room, and then created a small inconspicuous path to drag brush into the woods. It actually made the property shine by taking down these few trees, and dead wooding the 4-5 firs that we did. We will be back later this year or next to deadwood the rest of the 2 acres of land that are exposed to the yard, river, house.
Tree was down, brush all dragged deep into woods, and cut up into movable chunks in 3.5 hours total with 3 guys, one has never done tree work before.
When all was said and done the tree measured 100' tall and 36" DBH, that main leader flared out ABOVE the co-dom to 40"+! Very weird growth pattern. We dealt with overcast, rainy morning, followed by a sunny windy, winds were 30-40 mph when I was blowing the tops out, day. Temps were in the mid to high 40's all day.
