Desticled...Again

Last weekend we noticed that one of the Bartlett Pear trees in our front yard had a huge crack in the trunk. So I called Robinson Tree Service to have someone come out and look at it to see if the tree could be saved. The arborist told me that this was a fatal flaw with the Bartlett Pear tree and that after a while they grow to large to support themselves and most all of them end of cracking and need to be removed. So we scheduled to have him come out sometime at the end of the week.

On Wednesday we had some good sized wind storms show up and the front 1/3rd of the tree fell over, luckily it was the side facing the street so no damage was done to the house or the neighbor's cars. I called the tree people up on Thursday morning they send someone out with a chainsaw to make the tree "safe" until they could get out there on Friday with a cherry picker to remove the entire tree. After watching the entire season of Ax Men on History Channel, I thought about trying to use my little electric chainsaw to take the tree down and save about $400, but after talking to the neighbors about it, we all decided that was a bad idea. This turned out to be a wise move as the tree was much bigger then I had anticipated it being when it was taken down.

So on Friday morning they came buy and it only took them about 20 minutes to take the tree down, haul it away, and grind the stump down.

I then hauled away all the waste from the stump grinding, put some topsoil down and planted lots of grass seed in hopes of actually growing something. With all the sun in our front yard hopefully the grass will actually grow.

We have had more tree problems at this house and have spent upwards to $2000 to remove and reduce problems with the existing trees. We are elated that our new house has no mature trees near it (no leaves to rake) and we just saw the landscape plans and there are only about 4 trees total.