Yesterday, the city's public works crew cut down a mature silver maple tree across the street on Lewis. In local parlance, the tree was on the boulevard. In Cleveland we would refer to this thin patch of green between the sidewalk and street curb as the tree lawn. I knew, when we bought the house a few months ago, that this tree was doomed to the chainsaw. It bore a large, white spray painted X on its trunk. Being fall, it was devoid of foliage, but I could tell from its scraggly shape that it had seen better days.
With the tree out of the way, our detached garage now has a clear line to the abundant year-round southern sunshine. If we ever find the means to install solar panels, we have an ideal setting.
Alas, I didn't get a picture of the crew in action, but will see about posting one with it gone.
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Hey, John - if you ever come across a tree being taken down that might make nice lumber, call me. Since that big wind storm a couple of years ago, I've been collecting different flavors of tree in a solar kiln behind the garage. I have a chainsaw and a trailer and a friend with a bandsaw across the river. When they started on the new city hall project, their first move was to cut eight mature walnut trees into little pieces and take them to the dump. Oops!
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