Baroclinic Zone Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I'm having 2 large trees removed to keep the neighborly peace. I'm having trouble finding someone. My regular guy has to get help because he's injured. Any tips in the Boston area? A crane will likely be needed and the accessibility is tough because of the cluster of dense population and close together houses. Family has used these people in the past. http://treetechinc.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I'm having 2 large trees removed to keep the neighborly peace. I'm having trouble finding someone. My regular guy has to get help because he's injured. Any tips in the Boston area? A crane will likely be needed and the accessibility is tough because of the cluster of dense population and close together houses. I've got a 20" Stihl and 40-ton splitter I can lend you. Progress. Moved 4 cu/yd of loam this AM. Fertilized and seeded what I could. I ran out of loam. 2 more cu/yd to be delivered Tues. IMG_20130831_132838.jpg IMG_20130831_132829.jpg Getting there--looks good. Eager to see it with the growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I've got a 20" Stihl and 40-ton splitter I can lend you. Getting there--looks good. Eager to see it with the growth. I got peach fuzz growing out there this AM. Hoping to spread the rest of the loam and seed this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Holy S#!t my grass grew crazy this past week. Must have been a good 8-10" long. Had to run over it twice with the mower. Looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Overseed all done. 7 days since 1st round and you can see progress. 6 cu/yds of loam and about and 20# seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Word to the wise. Should you decide to make the jump from Scotts fertilizer to Lesco, don't use Lesco product in a scotts spreader. The Scotts spreaders have an edge guard that concentrates the lesco product in a line which in turn burns the lawn. Welcome to my world. Beautiful lawn massacred. Before After ...you can see the lines produced with the edge guard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Thanks guys. We want to use treetech but they need crane access which is unavailable week days. Looks like we're lined up though to do it within the next 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Word to the wise. Should you decide to make the jump from Scotts fertilizer to Lesco, don't use Lesco product in a scotts spreader. The Scotts spreaders have an edge guard that concentrates the lesco product in a line which in turn burns the lawn. Welcome to my world. Beautiful lawn massacred. Before After ...you can see the lines produced with the edge guard. ouch! is it a drop spreader, i have had not problems using LESCO in my Scott's rotary spreader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Internet says water oaks grow as far North as extreme Southern New Jersey, I bet they could be planted in coastal Southern New England. This was a 7 foot tall, 3 inch wide sapling supported by two steel posts and wire, and grew to be 30-something feet in 13 years. Last week, started looking sick. In a week, it has very few green leaves. It used to keep half its green leaves even through the cold Texas winters, even in 2009 when it snowed. As fast as it was going downhill, I thought oak wilt. Not what is was. Specialist came- It is a water oak, it will probably die, not from oak wilt fungus, from drought. I watered enough to keep the lawn green during the 5 year dry spell, but apparently water oaks have that name because they live near water and need 30 gallons a day when full sized. About $1000, they'll take it down next week. He said they'd charge $300 and try to save it if we want, but he thinks it is too far gone. We don't have enough people in Texas for a garden/lawn thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 ^ ^ ^ That sucks. Reminds me of Willows which like to grow around water as well. I'm surprised it lived that long given your location. Is this drought out of the ordinary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 12, 2013 Author Share Posted September 12, 2013 Word to the wise. Should you decide to make the jump from Scotts fertilizer to Lesco, don't use Lesco product in a scotts spreader. The Scotts spreaders have an edge guard that concentrates the lesco product in a line which in turn burns the lawn. Welcome to my world. Beautiful lawn massacred. Before After ...you can see the lines produced with the edge guard. Ugh..that is brutal..that will come back this fall though. Just give it time.and put winterizer down..I have one of those big agricultural spreaders..get yourself one of those CL&P had paid millions to have Asplundh come out all over creation and trim trees away from powerlines. They hit my hood this week in a convoy. Not only do they hack the trees and leave a massive mess behind..they drop the huge pieces of wood from high above onto the lawn and i now have these massive ruts and divots under 2 Oaks in the front yard. They are unfixable. I was so pissed off yesterday..Then cleaning up in that brutal heat. Just total azz clowns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 ^ ^ ^ That sucks. Reminds me of Willows which like to grow around water as well. I'm surprised it lived that long given your location. Is this drought out of the ordinary? 5 year drought since Ike. Summer 2011 was just as bad down here, and the tree lived through that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Ugh..that is brutal..that will come back this fall though. Just give it time.and put winterizer down..I have one of those big agricultural spreaders..get yourself one of those CL&P had paid millions to have Asplundh come out all over creation and trim trees away from powerlines. They hit my hood this week in a convoy. Not only do they hack the trees and leave a massive mess behind..they drop the huge pieces of wood from high above onto the lawn and i now have these massive ruts and divots under 2 Oaks in the front yard. They are unfixable. I was so pissed off yesterday..Then cleaning up in that brutal heat. Just total azz clowns We're also dealing with major league rain deficiency in SE Mass. 2.2 " since August 1st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 We're also dealing with major league rain deficiency in SE Mass. 2.2 " since August 1st. Last 30 days have been drier than normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Overseed all done. 7 days since 1st round and you can see progress. 6 cu/yds of loam and about and 20# seed. 2nd round has germinated. 1st round looking pretty good after 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 2nd round has germinated. 1st round looking pretty good after 2 weeks. Pics? HEAVY sawing/chipping going on at the Pit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Pics? HEAVY sawing/chipping going on at the Pit. I will this weekend. I need to get my chainsaw repaired. I have a bunch of fallen trees in the perimeter of the yard to deal with plus one dead standing tree that is just waiting to fall in the next solid wind event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Hopefully this weekends rains did not wash away my efforts. Hoping to see some germination in the next couple days as the sun comes out. 2 more cu/yds of loam were also delivered yesterday so that I cam complete the job. What did you use for seed? I did some research and tracked down the Black Beauty from the brand you mentioned who's name I always forget. Blew away other seeds in speed of germination and success rate. Not inexpensive but I'm very pleased so far. I had some significant webworm issues this year due to a neighbor not treating their lawn and bug creep. Rather than trying to fertilize the dead turf back to life I tore up large sections and re-seeded. A significant portion of their seed germinated within days with the rest filling in by day 10. Great stuff. Also like their fertilizer products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Word to the wise. Should you decide to make the jump from Scotts fertilizer to Lesco, don't use Lesco product in a scotts spreader. The Scotts spreaders have an edge guard that concentrates the lesco product in a line which in turn burns the lawn. Welcome to my world. Beautiful lawn massacred. Before After ...you can see the lines produced with the edge guard. I have used the rotary edge guard with Lesco and Jonathan Green products with no trouble. I imagine a drop spreader would be an issue if it had edgeguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Hopefully this weekends rains did not wash away my efforts. Hoping to see some germination in the next couple days as the sun comes out. 2 more cu/yds of loam were also delivered yesterday so that I cam complete the job. What did you use for seed? I did some research and tracked down the Black Beauty from the brand you mentioned who's name I always forget. Blew away other seeds in speed of germination and success rate. Not inexpensive but I'm very pleased so far. I had some significant webworm issues this year due to a neighbor not treating their lawn and bug creep. Rather than trying to fertilize the dead turf back to life I tore up large sections and re-seeded. A significant portion of their seed germinated within days with the rest filling in by day 10. Great stuff. Also like their fertilizer products. I used the Jonathan green black beauty seed. I bought a couple bags of the ultra and one of the standard. I've been using their fertilizers this year as well and I agree, great results. The mag-i-cal is good stuff as well. I had grubs last year so we're in the same boat. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Pics? HEAVY sawing/chipping going on at the Pit. Few progress pics. 2 weeks on rnd 1 and 1 week on rnd. The drier conditions and higher temps have definitely slowed the 2nd rnd some. Happy with the results thus far as they are better than what was there before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I realize I probably did a complete bonehead move. I seeded some bare spots after I put weed and feed down. I heard that effects the germination of the seed. I hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I realize I probably did a complete bonehead move. I seeded some bare spots after I put weed and feed down. I heard that effects the germination of the seed. I hope not. it will. rookie mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Few progress pics. 2 weeks on rnd 1 and 1 week on rnd. The drier conditions and higher temps have definitely slowed the 2nd rnd some. Happy with the results thus far as they are better than what was there before. IMG_20130915_122732.jpg IMG_20130915_122744.jpg IMG_20130915_122749.jpg COming along nicely, Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 it will. rookie mistake. Yeah. Well I guess I'll wait until the Spring then. Sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Yeah. Well I guess I'll wait until the Spring then. Sucks.It might but it depends on what type of fert you used. If it was a Cheapy kind you may be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 It might but it depends on what type of fert you used. If it was a Cheapy kind you may be ok It was just Scotts. I wanted something just to green it up a bit. Hopefully you are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 It was just Scotts. I wanted something just to green it up a bit. Hopefully you are right.If it doesn't germinate in 6-10 days then you know it killed it. Get down on hands and knees and see if it s germinating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 If it doesn't germinate in 6-10 days then you know it killed it. Get down on hands and knees and see if it s germinating I just put it down a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Is there a time limit to wait to put down seed after you use products like weed b gone and nut sedge killer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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