I drag mine into the woods, throw it on a branch pile. The critters
love it, it's like a playground for them.


--
Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_

"katysails" wrote in message
...
But then don't all those old pine trunks fly all over as shrapnel?
We just
put ours (except for this year) out back and hang old fruit and suet
from it
for the birds...then it goes in the burn pile in the spring...not
worth the
trouble of chopping up the trunk for fireplace wood because of teh
creosote
content...

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...

gonefishiing wrote:
must be a CA thing.
the NY version
here you just throw the tree out the 5th floor window, someone
comes
along
in the night and burns it for you. the fire trucks show up and
hose
the
thing down, the police come by and write up a silly report, the
landlord
sends his guys over the next day to scrub the soot and ashes off
of
his
building. big production every year. keeps lots of people
employeed.

gf.


Here they bring them to the beach, stake them down in rows, and 6
mo.
later you have a new row of sanddunes to be whiped out in
hurricane
season. Works great.

Joe












"JG" wrote in message
...
This is just too funny (or maybe you had to be there)....

It's just about time to put the dead tree on the curb for pick
up.
A
friend was over and she volunteered to remove the ornaments.
While
she was
doing that, I mentioned that it would probably dump 10 zillion
pine

needles on the floor, but that's what happens. I didn't give it
another
thought and went out to do some errands, while she stayed
around.

When I got back, I saw she had discovered the shop vac in the
garage.
Amazingly, she shop vac'd the tree! It was just about totally
denuded. She
was sort of embarrassed by the whole thing, but between fits of
laughter,
I told her it was fine by me.

At least it wasn't as dangerous as my ex-roomate in college who
stuff the
entire 7-foot dead tree into the fireplace and then lit the
tree...

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com