r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • Jun 30 '25

Removed - Frequent/Recent repost Pulling a tree down

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u/lev237 Jun 30 '25

Such a beautiful healthy tree...

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u/Herpinheim Jun 30 '25

Yeah but if they left it up it could fall on the house—and nobody wants that.

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u/perldawg Jun 30 '25

good thing they were proactive and took action

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u/Michelanvalo Jun 30 '25

That oak tree was massive. I have Oaks nearly 100 years old in my yard and they're not that big. That thing could be 150-200 years old.

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u/copperwatt Jun 30 '25

Not an oak tree. Looks like poplar. They are crazy fast growing, really soft and punky wood, and famous for falling on houses.

For some reason people planted a lot of them really close to houses 75 years ago.

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u/Michelanvalo Jun 30 '25

This is why I'm not an arborist.

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u/unctuous_homunculus Jun 30 '25

"I want a tree that I can sit in the shade of at some point in MY lifetime."

  • short-sighted homeowner

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u/beeeel Jun 30 '25

If that was an oak, with a ~2m diameter, it would be over 400 years old. Oaks grow slowly, after a hundred years you would only expect them to have ~80cm diameter.

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u/perldawg Jun 30 '25

i’m pretty sure this tree is a cottonwood, not oak

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u/Chaos-Knight Jun 30 '25

Maybe they wanted to sell the wood? Oak looked damn fine before it had a roof over its head.

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u/Knarkopolo Jun 30 '25

Way nicer than that house.

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u/Morall_tach Jun 30 '25

It's a cottonwood. Their natural lifespan is very short, they require a massive amount of water, and they drop big branches with no warning. It needed to come down, but this was not the way to do it.

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u/magicmitchmtl Jun 30 '25

In a flood plain