The Old Folks Home

[ChickenCanoe]

I remember the tree farming on the hills over the Main and Tauber rivers in northern Bavaria. I had never seen anything like it. All the forests were a patchwork of various age trees. Each square was clearcut and immediately replanted. I guess it worked for them.


My chickens are famous again and this time I'm in the video.
http://fox2now.com/2014/12/08/ofallon-residents-debate-backyard-chickens/
This is about a different ordinance battle but all the clips of chickens are on my property from the station's archives.

 

[Peep_Show]

I watched the video. I think the petitioner's Waterloo, if you will, would be the four chickens per person. If you have three small kids that's 20 chickens! As a neighbor, I'd be upset if that was in close proximity...like against the back fence How big are the lots in Ofallon?

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Those bibs are so adorable and I love the table runner.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I watched the video. I think the petitioner's Waterloo, if you will, would be the four chickens per person. If you have three small kids that's 20 chickens! As a neighbor, I'd be upset if that was in close proximity...like against the back fence How big are the lots in Ofallon?

They vary dramatically.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=O'Fallon&state=MO

I do love all the cities that get politically correct with green initiatives and local food movements yet restrict chickens and certain types of gardening.
Several around here fit that category.
http://www.ofallon.mo.us/ofallon-green-initiative

 

[bamadude]

Idots Wife just means shes married to an idiot...  No offence Bama...

Sort of like the Tshirt that says I am with stupid....

deb

exactly...

 

[bamadude]

I dont remember ever getting offended.

 

[hennible]

Re: tree hugging
There is a 300,000 hectare logging block near here... Now that's disgusting... I planted over 300,000 trees in my years tree planting, wish I'd done more. I'm on the verge of ranting on the dangers of leaving "wild life trees " on a block... Because "tree huggers" insist they be left I was almost killed... They just blow over without the other trees to protect them from the wind... Agh... Selective logging, that's good stuff, no need for tree planters. Processing at the stump is good practice too, it leaves all the tops and seed scatters around the block giving natural trees a chance to plant them selves... Stupidest thing ever said to me while I was a planter... Foreman: "get out there sam, trees don't plant themselves"
I being a cocky..... Pointed at the forest and said "yes, yes they do"
Good morning guys sorry to rant also

 

[tntchix]

I think a tree hugger is me. It isn't like I'll never chop one down. I won't cut one down that that isn't sick or doing damage to something else. It takes too long to grow one.
I cut down a couple big maples when I moved in here that somebody let grow about 3' from the house. They were huge. I can't imagine what damage they had done to the stone foundation over the years. There's a 70' tall sweetgum that had been growing about 12' from the house. Again, foundation damage but worse yet the sweetgum balls constantly clogging the gutter have done more damage. Over the years it has caused basement flooding and water ingress to the back walls of the house.
My house has a flat roof with a parapet walls and a 20' stick of gutter across the back. All the water that falls on the house goes into that gutter but if it's clogged, the rain flows right over like a waterfall, down into the cellar stairwell overwhelming the drain. It was our first heavy rain after moving in. We had lots of unpacked boxes down there including old family photos that got ruined. I've had a love hate relationship with the tree ever since. It's a beautiful tree and the perfect compliment to the row of equally tall red oaks on the opposite side of the driveway but once the water started getting into the back wall I decided it had to go. I finally got the top taken down to roof height. No more gumballs on the roof but I'm waiting till spring to take it the rest of the way down so I can use it to grow mushrooms.
Trees in a forest that are growing too close together aren't doing each other any good so were another target on our farm.
Every year the utility co. trims trees that are too close to wires. They're really ugly and lopsided when they get done. I told them to just take the trees down if they're going to butcher them.
Half the people on my road top their trees every 2 or 3 years. A few of them have huge sycamores and they end up with standing bare logs. Then for the next couple years they look like they have afros. Really bad look for a tree. Why don't they just take the trees out and plant something that only gets as tall as they try to keep the sycamores?

That's my rant for the day.

THIS! OMGosh this could have been written by me CC. When I see a tree so close to a house or other structure I get so frustrated. Why does this keep happening? Do people not realize said tree is going to grow and become a problem? Oh, and the utility tree line cutters, don't get me started. Always wasting time and energy when it should be removal and replacement of smaller growers.

 

[vehve]

Sam, another good thing about processing at the logging site, is that all the stuff you don't use for lumber is left to decompose, adding nutrients to the trees.

 

[hennible]

As long as it is spread out... When they pile it it takes forever to rot and usually here they just burn it... Not that that doesn't create nutrients for the soil... That was the most fun job I ever had, me DH and our best friend got to light some piles... Throwing rolls of flaming diesel soaked TP was a blast...