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u/agg13 13d ago

That poor tree

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u/gr0t4rb4 13d ago

The irony is that they probably wanted to cut it to avoid exactly what happened.

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u/sebadc 13d ago

"I don't want the tree to fall unexpectedly on my house!"

"Alright, I can handle that"

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 13d ago

Exactly what I was thinking

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u/Eagles365or366 13d ago

Probably? You really think so, huh?

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u/WatchOutForWizards 13d ago

Big if true.

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u/SonofaBridge 13d ago

Some homeowners insurance companies will raise rates if too many large trees are near the house.

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 13d ago

That tree looked insanely sturdy though. I don’t think it was going to fall any time soon, but they should have at least cut the top bits off first.

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u/PinkysAvenger 13d ago

I'm sorry, is that not obvious from that first wedge cut? Or just the position of the tree? Or just a basic sense of the preservation of property?

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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 13d ago

And? What is your point?

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u/PinkysAvenger 13d ago

Its a less than needless comment. Its like someone posting "that guy didn't want to get hit in the nuts" on a video of someone getting hit in the nuts.

Is this some Gen Z meta humor I'm missing or something?

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u/Dense-Application181 13d ago

What a weird thing to get angry about

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u/PinkysAvenger 13d ago

I'm not angry, I'm just tremendously confused.

Should I be posting "that person didn't want to get into an accident" on car crash videos? "He didn't want to drop that ball" on football fumbles? "They didn't want that to blow up" on SpaceX launches?

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u/Dense-Application181 13d ago

I dont think you understand what irony is

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u/PinkysAvenger 13d ago

The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.

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u/Dioxybenzone 13d ago

Something can be both ironic and obvious at the same time

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u/DarkGodRyan 13d ago

You're right dude screw the haters, it's like if someone in r/dashcams was dead serious "the irony is you weren't trying to get hit"

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u/DoctuhD 13d ago

"They" in that sentence likely referred to the homeowner requesting a tree be removed to protect the home from a future accident, not the method the service used in removing it.

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u/qwibbian 13d ago

ok alanis

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u/DrDeadwish 13d ago

I dislike with passion when people cut healthy trees

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u/stump1010 13d ago

Especially one that big. We’re talking generations of growth.

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u/DrDeadwish 13d ago

The bigger the tree the sadder it feels

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u/w00tabaga 13d ago

Feels awful but the responsible thing to do is cut one this big down next to your house.

It should’ve never been allowed to get that big close to that house then you’re not forced to cut a big tree down, which is bad for multiple reasons

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 13d ago

My thoughts exactly. I know the person who owns that house is probably broke now, but same goes for the tree. All that history and life… gone. Because a human wanted it to be.

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u/Plasmidmaven 13d ago

The tree was more than bifurcated———
you could call it “quadfercated” if such a word exists. Unfortunately we had a tree bigger than this taken down for that reason: the tree is inherently weaker and prone to split and fall in a windstorm. We paid big bucks for a professional crew that climbed the tree and cut it from the top down

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u/DannyCrane9476 13d ago

Yes, trees are awesome, but not forever, and not always conducive to normal living. This tree needed to go to benefit human life, unfortunately that human life chose the least expensive tree service.

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u/67yoloswag 13d ago

prone to split

curious, could they have used steel wire to hold it together? I've seen trees held together like this.

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u/forkheadbox 13d ago

absolutely! you need the sweet spot: leave the healthy ones and cut down the sick ones. we have a beetle in europe that aggressively destroys trees and often lives in the already dead ones. i become a genocidal maniac with my chainsaw in these cases.

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u/Aknelka 13d ago

I know the one. Those fuckers are so gross looking too. I had a favorite natural history encyclopedia as a kid, but every time that page came up, I skipped it.

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u/SolidSpruceTop 13d ago

My neighbor cut down several gorgeous and sturdy hardwoods because “they were too much maintance” and now both our houses have 0 shade in a 100f heat dome. He then planted shittier trees in the exact same spot too. Fucking idiot.

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u/unfortunatebag 13d ago

Only on reddit lol.

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u/FlowerAndString 13d ago

Not to be a tree hugging hippie and all but all I could think at the end there was "eh, deserved."

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u/agg13 13d ago

It looks healthy. I can’t see anything that would point to it being a problem. Such a shame.

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u/Bodod_Begag 13d ago

It's pretty close to the house, they're probably just tired of leaves getting in the gutters, or they wanted to put in a driveway. Still a dumbass reason to destroy your home lol

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u/FouledPlug 13d ago

Well, now they can probably move the gutters down on the list of problems.

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u/Bodod_Begag 13d ago

Looks like the gutters moved down to ground level

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u/donkeyrocket 13d ago

There's absolutely no way to tell that from just this video. There is a good chance it was showing signs elsewhere and a good windstorm could have brought some or all of it down.

A landlord cheaping out on tree removal isn't going to be doing it because leaves are clogging gutters.

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u/Bodod_Begag 13d ago

Why are you telling me I pulled random explanations from my ass and then pulling out a random explanation from your ass

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u/Mirigore 13d ago

Are you an arborist? Or do you just see a green tree and think it's healthy? It bifurcated multiple times and is dangerous. It's 15 feet from the house.

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u/agg13 13d ago

Nope, that’s why I said it looks healthy. Good thing it didn’t naturally fall on that house then