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That problem would have been solved by just saying "Yes, Ma'am. Let us go clean up the mess right now." Take your logs and go. Come back later if you feel like it. After all, she did say she'd come back with a machine and get it.

It isn't your head that they hurt. Should you ever take a stroll on them while barefoot, you will discover that they are in the same league of discomfort as Legos. Furthermore, they act like ball bearings underfoot, barefoot or not. If you walk on a thick stand of them while on a slope, you...

I think the heavy pruning was ill-advised. That wasn't just a bit of structural pruning, you whacked all the foliage off. Damaged foliage is better than none. If we summarize the probable condition of the plant, it has a severely damaged root system caused by transplanting and mishandling...

I'm not quite sure what "unstable" is. This isn't really "arborist" jargon, at least with respect to a tree's future health. That's just a little odd language to use, in my opinion. Perhaps that is just a peculiarity to an otherwise excellent arborist. Is he perhaps referring to too many...

Cicadas are not concerned with either soybeans or stink bugs.

By the way, why are you nervous about the branch? Have any of the arborists expressed health concerns about that branch? The whole tree looks like it could easily hammer your house. If you are not aware of any special health concerns about that branch, I'd just ask Arborist A to thin that...

I believe that the prevailing thought among some preservation-minded arborists is that a rather long stump is desirable since it will take many years for any pathogenic decay to reach the trunk if you leave a rather long stub. That being said, they often resprout, leaving many rapidly growing...

There are countless varieties of insects that might be. Identifying them from a few eggs is gonna take a very talented entomologist. This is probably like asking me to identify a tree from the bud scars on a twig. Myself, I'd put a screen or bag of some sort around them, and see what comes...

Maybe not for some policies. Most insurance pays for damage done, but not any maintenance or removal, except for technical removal off the structure. After it's off the house, they don't even pay for disposal.

Needle length is our best differentiation from the Monterey pine. Perhaps some of your pine cones are longer than measured? Height and profile of limbs looks good for your selected species. Chir pine is certainly a more southern species of pine for north of the equator, so it might be a likely...

I've never seen one that deep. Honestly, I think they roll the cable across the bare dirt of a new house, then roll the sod over it.

Don't know nuthin' about them. Video help any?

I don't know about that. It could be the potential customer saved a bunch of coin with the Chinese family doing cleanup, who probably would not have dropped it clean between the obstructions.

You can use all the same SRT toys on a doubled line, with less force required, but more than twice the number of steps. Too much setback for most folks, I understand. That's good for testing your skills with any new SRT equipment while having your line rigged with the style you have experience at.

The way I see it, this forum has many more tree trimmers than landscrapers. The whole question of "why is one of my freshly transplanted trees dying" was a pretty easy question to answer. If one out of 8 is dying, you need to look at how that one has been treated differently than the other 7...

I thought your water schedule sounded fine, unless you are in some sort of tropical heat zone.

Yes. When the tree sucks all the oxygen out of the soil because all the pores are filled with water, a condition exists where plant pathogens that don't need any oxygen begin to thrive. They are called "anaerobes", and this is when they get to begin munching on the tree and stealing it's energy...

The roots are mostly doing the process on the right, whereas the leaves are more concerned with the left side of that equation.

Well, per your suggestion, I've done a little more research. I think I wasn't wrong, but it was certainly a mistake when I tried to oversimplify the relationship between plant roots and oxygen in the soil. Oxygen plays a more pivotal role in nutrient absorption in the root zone than I had...

While my policy is to never lower a bid, I still negotiate with customers. They ask for a better deal, then I ask them what part of doing a good job do they wish for me to subtract in order to get a lower price. They usually get a somewhat stunned look on their face. Then I explain that we...