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Permalink Reply by gary herget on August 24, 2015 at 3:16pm

Looks like it could have been so much worse. Plant some hard maples, make great necks in the future.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 24, 2015 at 3:32pm

Was gonna say, is any of the box elder salvageable for dimensioning into neck or body blanks?

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 24, 2015 at 4:28pm

Gary, I like maples. Great shade. Plus their downed limbs are good for BBQing. 

Ron, have both that large Box Elder AND a huge Ash tree that have to come down. Lots of good wood. I've already told the company they can have the wood. 

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Permalink Reply by gary herget on August 25, 2015 at 1:32am

Rat that Ash would be good CBG material, but the Box Elder is too soft for necks.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 25, 2015 at 12:19pm

Judging from just how much of this tree keep hitting the ground Box Elders are to soft to be trees too. :)

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on August 26, 2015 at 1:05am

Oh, saw the pic.  Glad it was not worse.   My life experience is to keep those trees a bit further from the house!   I say this as a blue spruce in the front yard is starting to worry me every hard wind storm.  

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 30, 2015 at 5:12am

All the dead or dying trees are down. Man the yard looks different. Really happy with the results. I'll be drilling holes int he trunks soon to encourage rotting. 

Going to start a hunt for some hard wood with good fall color. That's one thing this street really doesn't have. Mostly Hard Maple, Box Elder, Ash and Sweet Gum. All browns and a bit of yellow in the fall. Probably go with something that will mature on the short side between the two houses. Ornamental perhaps. Got lots of time to think about it. 

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