Anybody else buy live trees for X-mas?

[meledward23]

I'll answer that one...

Just like in the western movies, when the good guy gets shot, and he's laying there, and everyone knows he's a gonner, they still offer him a drink of water. Same thing with a cut tree.


That's not an answer. Unless you are saying the man is dead the instant he is shot. Which is wrong. For the tree I don't believe the tree to be dead the instant is cut. Gator is playing semantics as usual (nothing personal, just thought a fun none political unoffensive discussion)... Therefor I want to know when the change occurs from live to real biologically occurs for the tree.

(Edited to be clearer)

 

[meledward23]

And for the record:

Year to year I switch between live/real and fake/articial. I like to change things up. However, there really is little difference. I inherited the fake/artificial tree from my parents. It drops as many needles as a "dead tree"... (probably why I got it for free, the donor failed to mention this)

 

[Mike120]

I did it once when we lived in NJ...dug the hole in November. My son was up there on business a couple of weeks ago and went by the old house. Said that Blue Spruce must be over 30' tall now. That news made the hassle of doing it worth while.

 

[Ken_CT]

Every year, in the spirit of Christmas, I kill a tree.

 

[meledward23]

Every year, in the spirit of Christmas, I kill a tree.

would that make it aXe-mas?

 

[MossRoad]

That's not an answer. Unless you are saying the man is dead the instant he is shot. Which is wrong. For the tree I don't believe the tree to be dead the instant is cut. Gator is playing semantics as usual (nothing personal, just thought a fun none political unoffensive discussion)... Therefor I want to know when the change occurs from live to real biologically occurs for the tree.

(Edited to be clearer)

It has a mortal wound. It's as good as dead, so you might as well put it out of it's missery and take it out back and burn it today so it doesn't suffer any more. But we are a selfish lot, so we keep it around for our own enjoyment, watching it drop its appendages slowly over a 4-5 week period as the life shrivels out of it. When is that life completely gone? Never. It lives on in our memories for eternity.

 

[JimMorrissey]

We like douglas fir, but with the root ball and the dirt they weight a lot. I must admit that it's not my favorite thing cutting down a beautiful DF for just a couple of weeks then hauling it out to the burn pile like trash after the New Year. I know they're grow as a crop, but it still gets me when I make the first saw cuts in the base.

 

[Steve_Miller]

It has a mortal wound. It's as good as dead, so you might as well put it out of it's missery and take it out back and burn it today so it doesn't suffer any more. But we are a selfish lot, so we keep it around for our own enjoyment, watching it drop its appendages slowly over a 4-5 week period as the life shrivels out of it.

We stopped with the real trees when the kids left a few years ago, but when we did have the real tree and the goats, they would get the remains and eat everything except for the trunk, talk about a slow death.

Steve

 

[escavader]

Nothing I hate worse then going with my wife to cut a tree.You can go to the most perfect tree farm,and shell walk by 20 perfect trees in search of the perfect tree.Last year the tree was so big around you could only see the tv from one chair in the living room. This year she said she was going to tone it down...made me buy a 10 fter and then cut it down to 6.5....now aint that numb?Also takes an hour to pick out one. I absolutely refuse to help decorate it,all she does is complain.
I cut it haul it drag it in put on the stand,drag it out,cut it up and chip it put it in the compost pile.thats my contribution.25 dollars for a 1/2 wheelbarrow full of compost what a ripoff!When the kids grow up its gonna be a fake job.
ALAN

 

[MossRoad]

We like douglas fir, but with the root ball and the dirt they weight a lot. I must admit that it's not my favorite thing cutting down a beautiful DF for just a couple of weeks then hauling it out to the burn pile like trash after the New Year. I know they're grow as a crop, but it still gets me when I make the first saw cuts in the base.

We planted several thousand trees on our place and tend about 10-20 thousand more. I have no qualms about harvesting a cut flower for a vase or a cut tree for a bigger vase.

I take our old one out about a week after New Years and throw it in the edge of the woods with the skeletons of Christmas Past. The birds hang out in it over the winter. It never fails... about March or April, I'll drive by it while mowing the lawn and look over and see an ornament hanging in it. Seems we always miss one.

When I was a kid I used to house-sit a neighbor's place and their cat. Hanging in their basement was a fully decorated Christmas tree with a sheet of plastic hanginng over it. They had all the ornaments glued to it and awire loop on the top to hang on a hook in the basement. All they had to do was haul it up the stairs and plop it in the corner. What fun it that??? We go through our onaments every year and pick out what we want hung this year. Lots of sentimental stuff in there from family and friends. It's a good way to connect the kids with their past.