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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2568168" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>I've also got a big cedar in the back yard that lost about 1/3 of its limbs, all on the west side. I'm sure this was from the bad summer a couple of years back. I am afraid I can't do much with it... cutting all that dead growth out will leave a giant hole in the tree. Neighbor on that side wants me to cut it down, because he wants more sun in his yard and his pool. I let him "trim" back another tree on that fenceline a few weeks ago, which essentially means he took a chainsaw and cut down over 50% of the tree above the fenceline. It's essentially butchered and I'm afraid it's going to die thanks to him. I don't want to cut the cedar, too. We can't pull the stump because it's in a junction of three privacy fences, so those would all be torn out in the process. Grinding the stump is an option, but then we can't plant another tree there...</p><p></p><p>I'm afraid in the next two years we're going to lose all three of these trees, which would leave us with a single pin oak in the middle of the back yard, about 20 feet tall... it's probably less than 10 years old.</p><p></p><p>The age, quality and character of the trees in this neighborhood was a major factor in why we chose to buy here, in this older, mature area, rather than the newer cookie-cutter neighborhoods across town. All the trees there were 8-foot tall spindly things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 2568168, member: 9374"] I've also got a big cedar in the back yard that lost about 1/3 of its limbs, all on the west side. I'm sure this was from the bad summer a couple of years back. I am afraid I can't do much with it... cutting all that dead growth out will leave a giant hole in the tree. Neighbor on that side wants me to cut it down, because he wants more sun in his yard and his pool. I let him "trim" back another tree on that fenceline a few weeks ago, which essentially means he took a chainsaw and cut down over 50% of the tree above the fenceline. It's essentially butchered and I'm afraid it's going to die thanks to him. I don't want to cut the cedar, too. We can't pull the stump because it's in a junction of three privacy fences, so those would all be torn out in the process. Grinding the stump is an option, but then we can't plant another tree there... I'm afraid in the next two years we're going to lose all three of these trees, which would leave us with a single pin oak in the middle of the back yard, about 20 feet tall... it's probably less than 10 years old. The age, quality and character of the trees in this neighborhood was a major factor in why we chose to buy here, in this older, mature area, rather than the newer cookie-cutter neighborhoods across town. All the trees there were 8-foot tall spindly things. [/QUOTE]
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