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General => General => Topic started by: alan sherman on 12 May 2014, 04:18:36 pm
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Have you ever chopped down a tree? If not, why not? Are you a Hornet rider? :evil
I was quite pleased to take out the sycamore from next door's garden, it was over roof height of our house so now i have a lot of wood!
Quite a sense of satisfaction of man over huge natural thing. No chainsaw either. Very pleased the tree didn't hit either house as I cut it down, and also that I didn't fall out the tree or off the ladder.
What next? Wrestle a bear? :rollin
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My m8 and I chopped down a 25ft conifer a couple yrs back that was very interesting to say the least... :lol
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I chopped down a Redwood with a nail file :D
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I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK :guitar
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Chopped my first tree down when I was about 14 on a summer camp, chose the biggest tree in the forest and it felled about 5 trees as it came down. Never owned up to it but all the scout leaders went potty. Don't know why. :evil
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Took down about ten trees couple of weeks back that were overlooking and blocking the light into our back garden
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dont you need permission now to cut down trees ?
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I think it's alright to cut down really old, ancient ones as long as you plant a new one somewhere else. :rolleyes
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Quite true it's not like us dwellers north of the border can afford to cut down tree's is it......I was thinking of getting some seeds and when I'm on my travels this summer around Scotland's west coast wherever I stop in the country side maybe I should just start planting them randomly.... :lol
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Not supposed to chop tree's down here so I topped mine, just a couple of tree trunks left standing that I prune every year.
Man points No2 - do your own plumbing :)
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chopping down 20 foot+ trees doesnt make you a man.
Chopping down 20+ foot trees AND digging out the stumps makes you a man :Z
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Think the sycamore is classed as a weed, not a tree, so no problem cutting them down.
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Wimps. :b
I chopped down my first tree aged 8.
Then spent the next 6 years every summer chopping down laurels for Dad, and digging the roots out. Ever dug out laurels? They're feckin' hard work, for £2 a stump!!
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£2 a stump :eek You mug :D That's it after reading this thread I'm off out to chop this fucker down .....For fun :lol
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No tree preservation order on that sycamore! Roots were going under the house and in the drains so it had to go.
I'm thinking the next step is to make some furniture out of the wood. Maybe a garden bench
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Make a toilet seat out of it, then you can shit down it's neck every day :D
Hell knows how many tree's I've felled but I have planted thousands throughout the years.
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£2 a stump :eek You mug :D That's it after reading this thread I'm off out to chop this fucker down .....For fun :lol
We worked on a pricing scheme dependent on how much of a bastard it was - and it was priced in €. 1€ for an easy one, 2€ for medium, and 3€ for a bitch (later went up to 5€).
That being said, when you only get 1,50€ a week in pocket money, that ain't bad! Funnily enough, when I'm at home (not at Uni), I STILL get my pocket money of 2€ per week! (Went up in 2008 after I earned 100€ in tree roots at home one summer - an average of about 3 roots a day)
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I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK :guitar
Why you called Locksmith then??
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LOTR The Two Towers - Extended Edition - The Last March of the Ents (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzugQBkUrZk#ws)
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I chopped down a 20ft tree last year. That wasn't the hard work - as has been seen, the hard work starts when you need to dig out the stump.
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I've chopped very few trees down, but I've built lots of houses..and last week I had a bugger of a wisdom tooth out( still aches!).. Them too gotta put me somewhere on the scale of manliness.. :o
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I was quite pleased to take out the sycamore from next door's garden...
He's not going to be too pleased when he gets back from his holiday though, is he? :lol
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£2 a stump :eek You mug :D That's it after reading this thread I'm off out to chop this fucker down .....For fun :lol
My wife would hunt you down Dazza... for even thinking of TOUCHING let alone cutting down an ancient tree (she works for The Woodland Trust) :evil :D
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Tell her not to worry, I resisted the urge to chop it down. Just carved my name in it instead. 8)
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when i brought my house in 93 ( yes still there) there were 15 laylandi ( however you spell it) in the back garden all 20ft plus
it took me weeks cutting them back bit at a time all the waste had to go into a wheely bin ! finally when I was nearly finish all down to 6ft high and the roots dug round I had a load of plaster board delivery craned over the back fence slipped the bloke a tenner and he pulled all the stumps out for me ! easy ! I dont know what you lot are making all the fuss about dont work harder work smarter ! :pokefun
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Apparently one fell over in the forest...anyone hear anything ?
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Tell her not to worry, I resisted the urge to chop it down. Just carved my name in it instead. 8)
Tastefully I hope, italics and everything.
I've only cut one tree down with an axe, an elder to put up a fence. Bastard thing still keeps shooting though despite the copious amounts of stump killer, salt and explosives. Think I'll have to get my boss over with his tractor.
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The council made me remove my conifer because the roots were poking through the path. I used a small hand axe 'cos it was all I could afford.
The stump's still there so no man points for me. :\
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Tell her not to worry, I resisted the urge to chop it down. Just carved my name in it instead. 8)
Tastefully I hope, italics and everything.
I've only cut one tree down with an axe, an elder to put up a fence. Bastard thing still keeps shooting though despite the copious amounts of stump killer, salt and explosives. Think I'll have to get my boss over with his tractor.
drill holes in it and fill it with creosote.
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No I have never used my chopper to cut down a tree--it's too blunt for that kind of thing. :pc
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Tell her not to worry, I resisted the urge to chop it down. Just carved my name in it instead. 8)
LOL I carved my initials on the Major oak before it was fenced off & you could climb it! although that was bout 40 years ago lol