I walked under this tree tonight, it’s not mine. It belongs to my oldest customer literally and figuratively. I had recommended that she have a tree guy do some preventative work on it like cutting off the dead wood, the suckers, and perhaps one or two limbs. Well, the guy she hired to do it sure made a mess of it. He left 3-4” of wood past the “collar” where one is supposed to cut adding two or three DECADES to the callousing-over of the wound in a beginner act of foolish, immature, below par work. A tree almost 200 years old deserves better. Anyone who has an arborist license needs to do his work well or all the rest suffer from potential maligning of reputations. I looked up at that tree that I had come to admire and was PISSED that an jerk with a chainsaw and a bucket truck could hack up an almost 200 year old organism like that grand old red oak. The vertical branches rising off the main branches are called suckers, and even though they needed to go, this so called “expert” left them on the tree. Why, I DUNNO! I called my customer to ask who did the work, offering to call him, talk to him, and ask him to go back and fix what he did, apologizing at the same time for inserting myself where I really did not belong, but if it weren’t for interventions like this, some bad things could happen. Plus, guys like this need to be caught and educated so they do not go and destroy hundreds of years of careful years of growth by the tree... messing up someone else’s prized possessions! Average red oak rings measure approx 11-15 years per inch of radius with wet soil yielding less rings per inch and dry high land yielding up to 25 years of age per inch! This tree has an appropriate diameter of 3.5’ which is, I figure, over 250 years old. One white oak tree I was cutting up for firewood was perfect. I sliced off a piece an inch wide and brought it home. My 7 year old son and I counted the rings and it was a seedling the year president Lincoln was killed. That trunk was smaller than this tree.
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