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Ash tree is lookin a little scary

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  1. HDRock

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    Only reason it is still there is because I have to cut the fence and put it back together

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    That thing's seen better days.
     
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  3. Hinerman

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    Yep, it's time...
     
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  4. HDRock

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    Gee, there's another little one I didn't see until I looked at the picture:whistle::binoculars:
     
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  5. papadave

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    Can't see the tree for the forest?:):woodsign:
     
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    Nice shagbark ash you got there...
     
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    Careful with that thing. Those upper branches could give you a headache you will never forget. o_O
     
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  8. HDRock

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    That's what I'm talkin about.
    Some of the branches extend into other trees too
    I will make some Cuts but then, I will be a long ways away when I pull that sucker down.
     
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    Time to get that bad boy on the ground.
     
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    Are you sure that ain't rotten?
     
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    Naw, I don't think it's rotten but I need to do some more inspection around the base before I do anything
     
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    Well, I bet it's dry!
     
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    Snap crackle pop dry, I'm going to be dropping it into my yard so I will have a big mess.
     
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    It might be misleading but that looks like it leans away from the fence. If so, you can cut without cutting fence. If not, worry not as sooner or later the tree will take care of that part about taking the fence down.
     
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    It does lean away but I don't want to drop it into the creek that's right there , can't see the creek in the pic.
    Actually it wouldn't fall into the creek, to many trees in the way to fall that way, it will just get hung up.
     
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    damm those bugs anyway.
     
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    Are you going to try to save your ash or cut it and be a smart ash?
     
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    Anything else would be a dumbash
     
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    Get the hardhat out for that one HD!

    It will be easy to clean the yard up after. Just rake all the little "Tootie Rolls" into a pile and burn them.
    Thats what those branches will look like when the top hits the ground.
     
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    A hundred times what yooperdave said.
     
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