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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.

No blight. We have clay soil. There was a line of the spruces planted in
front of the old farm house next door. I don't know how long ago the
trees were planed. One became dislodged from the soil when Ivan came
through a few years ago and it was leaning towards my neighbors hose.
The roots were not very deep, maybe 2 to 3 feet. The one in my yard that
was blown over was felled by a sudden storm with winds gusting to 70
MPH. Its root ball was the same depth. The last spruce was taken down as
a precaution because it had a bent trunk and in the wind you could see
the root ball lifting, just after the wind blew down tree 2.

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.

We still have one of the Norway Maples and we have a huge "pine" tree in
the middle of our back yard. The tree guy trimmed all of the branches
off up to 40 feet and then thinned out the branches above. We had 20
branches falling during heavy snows and ice storms.