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Boys and girls, if you have that big, heavy, beautiful shade tree overhanging your living room, bedroom, kitchen, etc., and you've been putting off having it trimmed or taken down, better not put it off any longer. Here's what can happen when least expected. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ma...-through-encino-home-in-middle-of-night/These people waited too late. L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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Encino Man
I remember that movie
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We took down two big-assed pecan trees out of the back yard five or six years ago. Good riddance.
Huge mature trees on a small residential lot aren't an asset, they're a liability.
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Had to take down a huge live oak this year that was mostly dead.
Had to fell it a certain direction too, away from the buildings.
It was an accident looking for a time to happen. That tree had worried me for a couple of years.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Today is the first day of Chanukah... Make sure your bush is trimmed....
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..." Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay " Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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I had four huge old oaks removed from my property seven or eight years ago. Expensive as hell, but I sleep better for it.
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Proud NRA Life Member
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Had a huge palm cut down and we did the cleanup. What a mess. The most useless tree ever. Home of scorpions, birds, and shedding fronds, bark and berries. Still have two. The only use out.of them is to hold up one end of my 80m dipole antenna. All.the other trees are annually subjected to grandpa with his Stihl.
Old guy, old guns.
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"Maybe we're all happy."
"Go to the sporting goods store. From the files, obtain form 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership."
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Common sense is the most rare of senses.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Encino Man
I remember that movie I like Brenden Frasier movies, blast from the past was hilarious. He can play a variety of roles. I'm sure some boomer will come along and call him a liberal POS that can't act or something. Meh, I don't care. Funny stuff
Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
Calm seas don't make sailors.
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Today is the first day of Chanukah... Make sure your bush is trimmed.... I bought concentrated orange juice Sunday...........
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Ice storm season is coming, great reason to trim things up
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My son had 2 very large and old soft maples in his yard. They were just west of his house by 20 feet. They had been there for years and were obviously old. He hired a guy to take them down and it wasn't 2 weeks later there was a huge wind storm come through and knocked trees down all over town. Even his wife's cousin lost several old and mature trees just 2 miles straight west of their house. Needless to say he cut that pretty close. If either one would of fell their house would of been gone. Cut them down ! Do it now.
kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa was a mess after the storm in August 2020.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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You fellers are pikers. October 2019, a Tornado ripped through Dallas. My folks had an acre and a quarter full of mature red oaks, live oaks, silver maples, cedar elms, cottonwoods, hackberry, pecan, walnut and other species of trees wiped out. One cottonwood was 135' feet tall and 7'+ in diameter. I spent damn near 2 months clearing the mess. 68 big trees in all were destroyed. Did it all with my trusty 261 and 462.
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l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right. - Del Gue
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A friend up the road a couple miles had one drop through his bedroom a few weeks back during a wind storm. snapped or blew over 5-6 big pines and blew apart his neighbors shed. Must of been a focused burst because we only had winds to 65 MPH. Both him and wife escaped with cuts and bruises, lucky to live through that.
"Life is tough, even tougher if your stupid" John Wayne
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Dropped all but 2 of mine last year... birches die young.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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. Dropped all but 2 of mine last year... birches die young. Oh yeah, and they rot quickly.
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