Today 12:14 pm
Whenever possible pulling the entire tree out is the way to go...plus it gives a great deal of satisfaction to just grab a Birch or Poplar at the base with the claw of your excavator and pull it out of the ground roots and all like you are picking a carrot.......DeezerShoove » Today, 6:20 am » wrote: ↑ Pulling down trees has its place too. No stump grinding is a biggie because in a few years the spot sinks as the leftovers finally disintegrate underground.
But clean up after a pull down in a mess all onto itself.
I just had the wind perform the task for me. 120 ft oak. I burned it up this past winter.
The root ball was only half ripped out and was a giant mass of roots and clay. I took a power washer and busted out a lot of the dirt. This year I'll build a fire on what's left. It will take more than one fire to flatten that big ****. Can't really reach it any other way.
!!!The only time I've seen a healthy, full sized evergreen topple over is when it was growing above an aquafer.
The result is the unearthed root ball leaves a pond sized body of water behind for wildlife to drink from.
I hit an aquafer while digging a massive pit to bury tree stumps in.
I was so far down I had to dig myself a ramp to drive the machine down into this mini- canyon to make the pit deeper.
It was interesting to dig your way "back into time" to see how your land had evolved over the millennia.
I unearthed lots of granite boulders and blue rocks full of iron.
Geologists call it Glacial Till.
While digging I finally hit the top of an underground river that was under so much "head pressure" that I created a geyser.......
!!Yeah, even though that would have been a very cool "Water Feature" and conversation piece to have, I plugged it back off.
Who knows how many homes down hill from me that aquafer was supplying with water.