On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:28:55 +0000 (UTC), thunder wrote:

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:09:36 -0400, BAR wrote:


I have had to pay to have a few of them cut down over the past couple of
years. One was an 80 foot tall blue spruce that fell over in a wind
storm. $1000 to have it removed and the fence repaired. Then there was
the 80 foot tall Norway maple that needed to be cut down, $1500, because
it had a Y that was splitting to the ground. There were two wires
holding it together about 40 feet up.


Do you have some kind of blight where you are? I've lost 3 blue spruced
in the past year, and looking around the area, I see quite a few sickly
blue spruces. I haven't heard of any blights, but the blue spruces don't
look healthy.

I've also got a 1/2 acre of Norway spruces that seem to be thinning out.
I don't think that is a blight though, more likely old age.

I lost a blue spruce to spider mites this past spring. Little *******s can clean one off in couple
days.