Grr - manliness

[alan sherman]

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

[Rexr]

My m8 and I chopped down a 25ft conifer a couple yrs back that was very interesting to say the least... :lol

[bigralphie]

I chopped down a Redwood with a nail file 

[locksmith]

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK  :guitar

[dazza]

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

[bigbluebear]

Took down about ten trees couple of weeks back that were overlooking and blocking the light into our back garden

[snapper]

dont you need permission now to cut down trees ?

[dazza]

I think it's alright to cut down really old, ancient ones as long as you plant a new one somewhere else. :rolleyes

[Rexr]

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

[Mattsplat]

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 

[Lazarus]

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

[Looney tune]

Think the sycamore is classed as a weed, not a tree, so no problem cutting them down.

[ChristoT]

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!!

[dazza]

£2 a stump  :eek  You mug    That's it after reading this thread I'm off out to chop this fucker down .....For fun :lol

[alan sherman]

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

[Looney tune]

Make a toilet seat out of it, then you can shit down it's neck every day 


Hell knows how many tree's I've felled but I have planted thousands throughout the years.

[ChristoT]

£2 a stump  :eek  You mug    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)

[midden]

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK  :guitar

Why you called Locksmith then??

[Slaninar]

LOTR The Two Towers - Extended Edition - The Last March of the Ents

[hightower]

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.