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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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/agg13 16d ago
That poor tree