Question originally aired December 26, 2009 – Radio Show Archive
SEGMENT 1.
(9:07 into segment)
Transcript:
Daniel: This big storm we had two weeks ago I had a big tree blow over. But I don’t know how to evaluate it. if its something I can shore up or cut down. I have no idea how to tell if it’s salvageable.
Jay Harper: Here’s something you can do. Do you have a digital camera or phone camera?
Daniel: Yes
Jay Harper: Take a picture of it. Take several picture from different angles. Email it…it’s almost impossible to tell you without seeing it and make sure you take a few pictures form down at the ground to see if there are any roots coming up.
Daniel: I’ll take those and shoot them over.
SEGMENT 4.
(4:22 into segment)
Transcript:
Rosie: We asked Daniel earlier in the show to send us pictures of this tree, I think he used the word listing. He had a meduim size tree…
Jay Harper: That’s why pictures are great. It isn’t what either of us would call listing Daniel. Daniel has an accasia, it looks like a saloscieena, probably a Willow Accasia. And they are a little prone to falling overs.
Rosie: Blowovers.
Jay Harper: Daniel: it is number two it’s over too far. The roots, some of the roots have come out of the ground. It’s literally popped roots and its uprooted. Number two its a big enough tree with a big enough caliber trunk, you don’t have enough room it’s literally in the corner of the yard. The only way that that sucker is ever going to come up is you get a cable and a come-along or a wench and wench it back the other way and even then it still might not live. So
Rosie: Even with that, you’d have to excavate the root ball hole pretty well.
Jay Harper: You’d probably have to dig down and…
Rosie: This is over too far.
Jay Harper: Yeah, it’s just too far gone so it’s time for Rosie’s favorite piece of equipment.
Rosie: Yeah Baby!
Jay Harper: The chainsaw!
Rosie: A to Z Equipment!
Jay Harper: and start over.
