RE: WAS Royal Paulownia NOW tree topping

Possibly?!?.. I am not a violent person, but that might have pushed me
over the edge... so to speak.

Daryl, I hope you at least got to vent on someone responsible for doing
that!

Donna


> 
> Oh, Daryl - that's maybe the most sickening story I've heard in a long
> while.  I can just imagine how you felt - I would have been so
incensed
> I would have been totally out of control and quite possibly lethal!
> 
> Lynda
> Zone 7 - West TN
> 
> 
> Zem,
> 
> Our county has the same. They rip miles and miles of limbs off the
trees
> with the same justification. Here, of course, we do have ice storms
> every year or two. The only problem is that the machine can only go
> about 15' high, so if they miss a road for a few years, the branches
are
> all *above their reach, and hanging over the road.
> 
> One year, they were apparently so frustrated that they cut right to
the
> wire on about 300' of my fence line, then came back and gave it a buzz
> cut at fence level. Never mind that 160 of those feet were 8x8' shrub
> roses chosen to just hide the fence while staying away from the road.
> That was the front yard. The side had several dozen native trees and
> shrubs, again chosen to hide the fence, while also providing wildlife
> habitat. And then there were the pines and the oak at the corner,
limbs
> shredded as you describe. I was physically ill when I saw the
> destruction as I drove home from work that evening.
> 
> Daryl ( near "Deliverance" territory)

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