The reason we "quote" and not fix the price

[Dean Lofthouse]

Part of the spec on this job was to take down this 5-6" stemmed conifer and remove stump.

 

What a shocker when we dug down and exposed the root

 

5:1 didn't touch it so doubled it to 10:1 and cut through a 6" dia root buttress and it still only bent the stem. It was as if someone had concreted it in.

 

I've seen some weird rootballs but this was a beauty.

 

Pass the stump grinder !

[Big J]

It's a tree shaped like a golf club - what a corker!

 

Thanks for sharing that.

[slack ma girdle]

There will be some interesting grain in that root, were you able to get it out whole ?

[scotspine1]

It's a called a pedestal Dean, have seen that before on a similar sized conifer we removed, got pics of that job somewhere, might try and dig them out sometime.

 

A pic of the Dunkeld Pedestal Larch near Perth

 

[Tom Richards]

thats a cracker wouldnt have expected that

[Dean Lofthouse]

It will be ground out, as soon as I saw it I knew we were wasting our time digging

[Rob D]

Ouch - and on such a wee conifer as well.

[Daniël Bos]

Why did it do that?

[skyhuck]

Dean a "quote" is a fixed price, its an "estimate" thats flexible.

[scotspine1]

Why did it do that?

 

Can't be sure, but from looking at the bark it looks like a Hinoki Cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), sometimes they're grafted onto Thuja rootstock. So you've got two different trees.

 

They graft them because they grow faster in the nursery meaning they can sell them quicker and make more money.

 

 

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Edited March 16, 2012 by scotspine1