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On Oct 26, 12:43*pm, JustWait wrote:
On 10/26/2012 12:28 PM, 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 think it was Spruce we lost here a couple decades back from something,
shag bark hickory is very rare too I think I remember my dad saying
something about something that hit them too.

Oooops, just remembered it wasn't spruce although they did get hit
with something. But it's Dutch Elm disease I remember my dad talking
about.

My mother lost two Chinese Elms to Dutch Elm disease.