I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK

On 31 Oct 2004 17:39:34 -0800, (bandu) wrote:

I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK


Also check to see if you are permitted to remove the trees, and how
much the removal permit would be.\

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bandu wrote:
I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.

"Neglected" by what standard? Do you mean it doesn't have a boring
blanket of golf-course-like grass? Do you find woodlands to look
"neglected" by default? If that's the case, don't buy the property.

You've already proved your guess it's difficult to grow anything there
to be wrong. 40 or so tall pine trees are growing there.

In most neighborhoods, if you cut down a stand of trees like that just
because you think woodlands look "neglected", you would quickly become
known as the anti-social neighbor who cut down the trees. Let someone
more interested in maintaining the stand of trees buy the property. Go
someplace else. Someplace where clear-cutting is liked.

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You didn't say where you are located but if you are in the southeastern US, you
can probably have a lovely azalea garden under those pine trees.

Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK

If you like it buy it..... Could you put a woodland garden in without the
removal of trees? I for one am not fond of a nice green grass lawn, I'd much
rather have pathways and greenery with flowers in my yard. It's a thought... My
best friend is in a similar situation and I asked the same thing of her....
told her she should take all her leaves (from the front yard) and spread them
out back till next year to add organic material and start planting away.
Colleen
Zone s CT

I'd buy the place, and I'd be happy to have those trees there, and with the
right plants a nice shade garden could be made and the pine needles are good
for composting too.


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"bandu" wrote in message
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I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK


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"bandu" wrote in message
om...
I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.

I have a friend in Myrtle Beach that is having several tall pines removed.
Storms have him worried because trees can break in half and top come
spearing through your roof. Think he's paying $3 or $6 thousand to have
done. While trees are big, they are tough to harvest, i.e. have to be cut
in sections, and are not worth the lumber value. Pine is also no good as
firewood.
Frank

bandu wrote:
I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.

I vote no. You have a large backyard which you don't like the looks of.
You'll have to spend a lot of money altering it -- not just for
removing the trees, but for renovating the "neglect" and making it look
the way you think it should. Buy a house where you can work with the
existing landscape, not against it.

"bandu" wrote in message
om...
I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK

What are the redeeming qualities of the property? Are they compelling enough
to make you comfortable with spending some serious money to have some of the
trees removed?

aged pine make fine firewood, I helped cut up a falled pine tree once and
the wood was stacked and aged and the next year the people used it in their
fireplace just fine.


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"bandu" wrote in message
om...
I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.

I have a friend in Myrtle Beach that is having several tall pines removed.
Storms have him worried because trees can break in half and top come
spearing through your roof. Think he's paying $3 or $6 thousand to have
done. While trees are big, they are tough to harvest, i.e. have to be cut
in sections, and are not worth the lumber value. Pine is also no good as
firewood.
Frank




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What do you mean by "just fine"? It burned?


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aged pine make fine firewood, I helped cut up a falled pine tree once and
the wood was stacked and aged and the next year the people used it in
their
fireplace just fine.


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"bandu" wrote in message
om...
I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.

I have a friend in Myrtle Beach that is having several tall pines
removed.
Storms have him worried because trees can break in half and top come
spearing through your roof. Think he's paying $3 or $6 thousand to have
done. While trees are big, they are tough to harvest, i.e. have to be
cut
in sections, and are not worth the lumber value. Pine is also no good
as
firewood.
Frank




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"starlord" wrote in
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aged pine make fine firewood, I helped cut up a falled pine
tree once and the wood was stacked and aged and the next
year the people used it in their fireplace just fine.

oh, pine *burns* great. it also gunks up the chimney & is a
prime cause of chimney fires.
i burn pine in my saphouse because it burns hot & that
chimney is short & easy to clean. i'd *never* burn it in my
house though.
lee

If you remove the trees, you may end up with lots of stumps that are
uglier than the trees.

Janet

Doug Kanter wrote:

"bandu" wrote in message
om...

I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK


What are the redeeming qualities of the property? Are they compelling enough
to make you comfortable with spending some serious money to have some of the
trees removed?

That's just a matter of hiring the right tree removal service, Janet. Stump
removal isn't a big deal.

"Janet Price" wrote in message
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If you remove the trees, you may end up with lots of stumps that are
uglier than the trees.

Janet

Doug Kanter wrote:

"bandu" wrote in message
om...

I am looking at a house to buy which has one third of its half acre
backyard
covered in aboout 40 or so tall pine trees. As you can guessed
backyard looks quite neglected and I guess thats because its difficult
to grow anything there.
Should I buy this property. How about spending on removing some of
those trees.
Thanks
BK


What are the redeeming qualities of the property? Are they compelling
enough
to make you comfortable with spending some serious money to have some of
the
trees removed?

If the trees have not been tended to (ie: thinned) properly for a long time,
it is quite possible that a good storm could topple them ALL. Pines are
shallow rooted and tend to go down like dominos. I once saw an entire
hillside with a 40' swatch of downed pines that ran from bottom to almost
the top. Some tree maintenance might be a good idea even if you don't plan
on removing them all.

Giselle (who even on a recently maintained/logged property lost about 10
hardwood trees to wind this year)