8trackdisco wrote:If that were the case, there would only be two or three trees on my street. The estimates are most of the oaks are 100-125 years old. All of those in my yard are 60+ feet tall. Hey are beautiful.
Tricky thing is, you never know how alive or dead an oak is until you either cut it or it falls down.
My neighborhood was built on a razed forest that only left a few mature trees on each lot.
At my absolute insistence, I made them knock down every one of them (water oak) so that my lot was barren. They had grown-out inside a forest and developed accordingly, not as stand alones. This made them very prone to serious problems, particularly during storm season.
Building code required me to make up for it with ornamental trees and palms, which turned out to be much nicer anyway.
Bottom line is that one next door neighbor spent close to $5k removing one single giant "forest tree" from his front yard. My other next door neighbor, who has three of them in his back yard says he thinks he has spent $8k over the last 20 years-keeping the trees safe by getting them trimmed by an arborist every few years in preparation for storm season.
