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Originally Posted by treevet  Man, that sounds like a challenge Bermy. Do the punctures have irritants in them? We ve (and you maybe) got the poison ivy dance here. Deciduous but it does not matter esp when you start spraying the shit with a chainsaw cut. You can try to be as careful as you can but by the end of the day you just grin and bear it  . Payback comes in 2 days.
400 year old house. My sister lives in a 250 year old farm house and I thought that was old. You got the sticker vines, hanging storm damage and a delicate 400 year old house under it! Better be a good bone (paycheck) at the end of that one. |
Fortunately the vine is not PI, I would not have been able to do it if it was!
The irritant in the cactus is the little spines!
Luckily the house is not directly below the tree, but within range if it were to fail in a storm, which is what got me the job, big lumps of it came off during Fabian in '03.
I have been amazed at the compartmentalization of the tear outs and shattered ends, they've had 4 1/2 years to 'sort it out'...very strong and distinct walls with very limited vertical spread of decay as well.