Re: WAS Royal Paulownia NOW tree topping

Lordy, Zem, let's just hope they don't hear about that one around
here or they'll start doing that, too.  Yikes!  Now, I would imagine,
in about 5 years or so, you ought to be seeing reports of large
stands of roadside trees dying from some mysterious cause....then, of
course, the county will spring into action, dedicating massive
amounts of taxpayer dollars to replanting trees along the roads so
that when they get mature, they can haul out their tree eatin' toy
and do it all over again.  Isn't there some organization called
'defenders of trees' or something like that you can alert about this
cruelty to trees? :->

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Zemuly@aol.com
> Our county has this implement that I call the tree chewing machine.
 It is 
> like a tractor with this huge cutting blade that is perpendicular
to the 
> tractor.  Maybe it could be used parallel to the ground, but that's
not done here.  
> Anyway, the idiot drives goes real slow next to the shoulder of the
road, and 
> this blade "chews" the limbs off the trees, leaving great strands
of bark 
> hanging at the ends of the "nubs."  The purpose of this exercise,
according to 
> county government, is to prevent limbs from falling on the road in
the event of an 
> ice storm.  We do get ice storms -- every 15 years or so.  It's the

> Clampett's home turf, I tell you!

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