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Hopalong:
Hope you don't mind me posting this on your Yard thread, Lighter.
I might be having to face the decision to cut down my one huge, magnificent and ailing old tree that's four feet from my house -- the joy of my yard. Two huge branches came down in the storm the other night. One caught the corner of the roof and the other damaged a fence, but I'm not sure yet whether homeowners' will pay for it.
I'd heard a bang in the night but thought it came from neighbor's. SO SAD. (Though as one landed not far from my bedroom window, also counting my blessings.)
hugs
Hops
sKePTiKal:
I just had two dead oaks dropped a couple weeks ago. They would've smashed my barn and blocked the drive & taken out the field fence, if they came down on their own. We should get most of a season's worth of wood from just those two trees.
lighter:
I don't know Hops.... I'm sure you'll have the tree assessed before making any decisions.
Maybe there are dead limbs..... but the tree's healthy enough to remain another 10 or so years? I hope so... you sound so attached: /
There's an ailing Red Oak, just on the other side of our property line. It leans towards our bedrooms..... I have to have a chat with those neighbors and put something in writing... i think.... to put their insurance company on the hook.
Hey, Hops..... what say you on Ralph W. Moss, PhD's work on complementary and alternative cancer therapies? Seems like something you'd know a bit about and maybe have an opinion. Thanks: )
Lighter
Hopalong:
The arborist came and said the tree's okay to carry on...the limbs were very big and a huge couple extend over the house. It's 4 feet from the back of the house. It took out part of the patio fence and also damaged the roof, but not too badly I believe. When that day comes they will have to use a crane to take it down. It's the tallest tree on the block.
I'm on hold with the insurer, dreading the process. But the arborist also took pix for me. The insurer was kind enough to mention that they wouldn't expect me to climb on the roof to cover it with a tarp.
Good luck with the oak! I didn't know you could require neighbors to agree to cover limb fall. One of my downers is over the big fence I jsut had rebuilt and sticking into their yard. I don't know if they'll cut it up or expect my insurer to cover it...but I recall (vaguely) something about if a neighbor's tree falls into your yard, tough. Ack.
Glad you got the dangerous ones removed, Amber! The idea of something falling on that barn is not nice. Hope it goes well and safely.
I don't know Dr. Ross' work, Lighter...but it might not surprise you that I don't favor alternative cancer treatments pulling patients away from proven (even though sometimes grueling) ones. A friend who was extremely anti-conventional medicine died a ghastly death from a breast tumor...and anyway, I believe in allopathy. Being a DES daughter illuminated a lot of it for me in the 1960s. It's a drug that was prescribed to many women in the 50s and 60s before they knew it could cause a rare cancer in the babies. I was monitored for cancer for two decades before my precondition resolved. Had a surgical procedure too. The irony is that although it was generally an ineffective anti-miscarriage agent, in my case it was clear I wouldn't have been born without it (my mother went off it a month before I was due and I was born in 24 hours). So, weirdly, this nasty drug saved my life.
hugs
Hops
lighter:
Whew.... once I climbed my roof and glue gunned extra shingles over a hole where a limb shot through the attic like a spear. How big is your hole, Hops?
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