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  1. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    @ATH in the above quote I said that wrong! He called the forestry before me! I got that backwards.
  2. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I'm a poor guy. I would have rented a trencher if I had been on most ground around here. This particular property was on rock though. I would have had to have a rock saw or hammer and excavator. I would have charged a lot. I would have charged a lot up front and I hate doing that.
  3. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I told the customer on the last job I did that trenching was best but he was not able to afford it. I didn't know the 40 ft idea either. This customer was very intelligent and he called me before the forestry because he just wanted to know why his trees were dying in one area and they pretty...
  4. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I never really considered that. With most trees I don't worry but great point on the heal time.
  5. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    @ATH In the case I just dealt with, "patient zero" was clearly infected by Beatles or a non-mankind related Factor. The tree had split in a storm and had never been trimmed because it was near the edge of a forest. The next year half a dozen others were dead or dying. I waited to take the trees...
  6. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    When I remove trees I burn on site whenever possible if I'm unable to burn on site I take it to a private burn area.
  7. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    It would seem to me that if the disease died very quickly outside of the tree then the disease would no longer exist. It is widespread transmitted to vastly different areas.
  8. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    @ATH I apologize if my responses are annoying you but I'm trying to learn a little bit about this and I was just doing some reading and up north your guys's window seems to be April 15th through July 15th. Down here in Missouri or Kansas it's more like April 15th through September 15th. Clearly...
  9. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I am on the Missouri/Kansas line. Sorry, I just saw that question.
  10. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    Btw all my oak trims now are set for October. I needed money when work was slow but I told all of my customers that wanted oaks trimmed that they would have to wait until October. I refuse to back off of this even if it cost me my business. Trees gave me a couple decades of income. I used to...
  11. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I love your input and you clearly know more than me about both.
  12. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I agree and just think about this 71 highway runs straight into Missouri where I'm at. Humans are spreading these diseases more than root transmission. I believe.
  13. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    About Dutch elm that's exactly what I thought it was supposed to have extinct the species a long time ago but it didn't and it went away for a long time but now it's back. Almost all of the Dutch elm disease trees I have seen have been along power lines
  14. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    I will try the gas on my saws especially I don't hardly know what to do with my saddle and my ropes I wash in detergent. Thanks for the tip. Bleach is hard on stuff
  15. Capitalist

    Oak Wilt and Dutch elm is getting bad

    Is it getting any worse in your area? I own a tree service and this year I have taken down more trees dead from Dutch elm disease and oak Wilt then I have in my entire career. There is two that I just looked at elms I mean and they were trimmed in May by powerline clearance trimming crews and...
  16. Capitalist

    Porta wrap (large) 3/4 kraken

    Someone was sneaking photos that knew someone who knew me. They got the best shot but the drone footage is way cooler
  17. Capitalist

    Porta wrap (large) 3/4 kraken

    Hope your thanksgiving was good. I must say this was a challenge I wont find again in the state of Missouri. I do have a confidence from it but I had already proven all I needed to myself. This was very near to the state record easter cottonwood. The state record was less than 1/4 mile away...
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