Northern Red Oak Tree

[bigtiller]

Agreed. Keep in mind that oaks are rather slow growing trees. If it's 45' away from your leachfield, chances are you'll be long gone before it becomes a problem. We oaks gotta stick together!! :laughing:

I have jokingly said for many years that, if I didn't live past the age of 83 I would be pi$$ed off. So, you may have a point because when I planted the trees around here I was thinking how much my future grand kids would enjoy them.

45' away gives me plenty of time to mull it over.

 

[bigtiller]

updated news on one of the existing oak trees. I decided to cut one down but it was too windy for me to fell it against the wind so I got out the pole saw.



Then chipped the branch tops.



A few minutes later, all that's left is firewood.



I drilled eight 3/4" holes about 5" deep in the 6" wide stump, filled the holes with some 10-10-10 garden fertilizer and put an extra inch sprinkled over the top and covered the stump with a 5 gallon bucket of soil from the corn field.

I hope the stump will disintegrate on it's own in a few years.