how do you kill a tree?
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A variation on a copper nail, which will work quicker.
Drill a 1" 'core sample' using a cheese borer or similar tool, fill the hole with Copper Suphate (from your Merit Chemistry Set) and put tbe lump back (the core) in.
It'll take sometime, but be faster than the nail(s)
Or cut the bastard down with a chainsaw in the night and claim the local pikeys did it.
Drill a 1" 'core sample' using a cheese borer or similar tool, fill the hole with Copper Suphate (from your Merit Chemistry Set) and put tbe lump back (the core) in.
It'll take sometime, but be faster than the nail(s)
Or cut the bastard down with a chainsaw in the night and claim the local pikeys did it.
Don't cut it down! It maybe the final straw, floods, famine etc. We need as many trees in this country as possible!
I am not an eco-warrior! I enjoy driving my Dad's 7 litre Mercedes.
Last week I did a sustainability module at uni. If you cut it down, you'll need energy to do it, manually, you will need food to keep your energy levels up, that will create more rubbish. If you do it with a chainsaw etc, you will need petrol and oil etc, that will be yet more CO2 released into that atmosphere. The tree will be more environmentally friendly where it stands now rather than using energy to cut it down!
I am not an eco-warrior! I enjoy driving my Dad's 7 litre Mercedes.
Last week I did a sustainability module at uni. If you cut it down, you'll need energy to do it, manually, you will need food to keep your energy levels up, that will create more rubbish. If you do it with a chainsaw etc, you will need petrol and oil etc, that will be yet more CO2 released into that atmosphere. The tree will be more environmentally friendly where it stands now rather than using energy to cut it down!
rcarr said:
Don't cut it down! It maybe the final straw, floods, famine etc. We need as many trees in this country as possible!
I am not an eco-warrior! I enjoy driving my Dad's 7 litre Mercedes.
Last week I did a sustainability module at uni. If you cut it down, you'll need energy to do it, manually, you will need food to keep your energy levels up, that will create more rubbish. If you do it with a chainsaw etc, you will need petrol and oil etc, that will be yet more CO2 released into that atmosphere. The tree will be more environmentally friendly where it stands now rather than using energy to cut it down!
I am not an eco-warrior! I enjoy driving my Dad's 7 litre Mercedes.
Last week I did a sustainability module at uni. If you cut it down, you'll need energy to do it, manually, you will need food to keep your energy levels up, that will create more rubbish. If you do it with a chainsaw etc, you will need petrol and oil etc, that will be yet more CO2 released into that atmosphere. The tree will be more environmentally friendly where it stands now rather than using energy to cut it down!
Go and sit in the corner.
You can come out when you learn to talk to grown-ups properly
timmy33 said:
dern said:
timmy33 said:
So, who cares how long it's been there. It'll fall down eventually anyway, they do that. There are more trees now in the UK than at the time of Robin Hood apparently, so we're hardly going to miss one.
Evidence please, sounds like bollox to me. What do yuo expect me to do, count them?
Most of what was referred to as 'Forest' in medievil times actually just meant land owned by the king and administered by foresters, not necissarily covered in trees.
I see what you mean about the definition of forests though. We have loads of small trees kicking about in out garden but wouldn't necessarily equate each one of those with a full blown oak, ash or elm. Always seems a shame to cut down something big and old though.
Coincidentally we are cutting down a tree in our front garden. It's a eucalyptus planted by the previous owners. I'd love to leave it but it grows more quickly than our kids. Totally stupid thing to plant in a front garden. I lopped the top off it about 2 or 3 years ago and it's grown 20 or 30 feet straight up in that time. I was going to cut it back last summer but a wood pigeon nested in it so we couldn't (or didn't want to). Now it's way too big for me to attempt so I have to pay 240 quid to get someone to cut it down, remove all the wood and poison the stump... fecking pigeons. What amazed me though was that cutting the tree down to ground level wouldn't be sufficient to kill the bastard. Apparently it would simply grow upwards again almost immediately. The tree surgeon is going to drill holes in the stump and then fill the holes with some poison and then cap it which will kill the roots.
explosives?
dern said:
I was going to cut it back last summer but a wood pigeon nested in it so we couldn't (or didn't want to). Now it's way too big for me to attempt so I have to pay 240 quid to get someone to cut it down, remove all the wood and poison the stump... fecking pigeons.
But your actions are much appreciated. 
There are more cars now than in the Robin Hood days. I know this for a fact. If it helps the debate along?
As to cutting a tree down to make your life complete? Why not? Perhaps the issue is if it would pee off your neighbours by doing so - maybe they like the tree? Perhaps it looks nice in your road..... Copper nails will do it (large copper spike) or the salt treatment, or algaecide (from a pool supplier). However, copper nails will knacker a chainsaw and would be extremely dangerous for it's operator - you could be sued.
I cut down a big oak some years ago when having the house extended - there was a lot of discussion in the family about it. It seemed criminal to do it somehow, but it came down to us, or the tree. We won. A shame though, but we do have many other trees of a similar size in the garden so got over it.
garyhun said:
dieseljohn said:
Am I the only one that feels sorry for the tree?
I think there is something seriously wrong with me.
I think there is something seriously wrong with me.
Personally anyone killing a perfectly good tree is a tosspot!!!
I feel that way myself to tell the truth but I happen to have a tired old damson tree in the way of my garage extension so I may become a tosspot in the near future
I do have a sapling sourced from a tree we had to leave behind at the old house. I'll plant that to keep the natural balance going.
Don't know if anyone has already said this, but drill a long hole into the tree low down and everynight (in the dark 
) pour in creosote or round up, this will kill it effectively and will look natural too, start it now an there will be a poor showing of leaves in the spring which will make people suspect the tree developed an illness in the winter months and won't look as suspicious as it would if all the leaves drop at once in the summer!!
I don't like the idea of killing a mature tree though, there are always pro's and con's though in a case like this and differing views, so watch out for any eco-friendly neighbours.
) pour in creosote or round up, this will kill it effectively and will look natural too, start it now an there will be a poor showing of leaves in the spring which will make people suspect the tree developed an illness in the winter months and won't look as suspicious as it would if all the leaves drop at once in the summer!! I don't like the idea of killing a mature tree though, there are always pro's and con's though in a case like this and differing views, so watch out for any eco-friendly neighbours.
garyhun said:
Personally anyone killing a perfectly good tree is a tosspot!!!
What do you write on then slate?
What's holding the roof up on your house?
Is all of your furniture metal?
There's alot of people working in forestry, arboriculture and landscape gardening that you're insulting there.
Pigeon said:
dern said:
I was going to cut it back last summer but a wood pigeon nested in it so we couldn't (or didn't want to). Now it's way too big for me to attempt so I have to pay 240 quid to get someone to cut it down, remove all the wood and poison the stump... fecking pigeons.
But your actions are much appreciated. You can thank the wife, I was just loading the air rifle when she stopped me
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