Not at all. I hate seeing nice trees cut down as well.

I would guess they took it down because of the HUGE crack in a large branch that you can see at the start of the video.....oh...I just read the description where they explain EXACTLY why they took it down, it was dropping branches after a lightning strike, almost hitting someone. That likely means the trunk was also weakened, and it was certainly close enough to take out that house.

I can relate. I (sadly) took down a 30-40 meter Douglas Fir tree in my yard a few years back. It's still painful to think about. My tree had grown too tall, and had a weakened root system because it was growing sideways out of a small hill, and had massive gopher activity all around it. All the surrounding trees on other properties were cut well before we moved here, so it was also exposed to full wind. I was terrified that it was going to come down through my bedroom and kill the wife and myself, or through a neighbors house, so we had it cut. I've spent the nearly 3 years since then digging out the root ball (which WAS as weakened as I had thought) and turning the hole into a large pond. I still hate that we had to kill the tree, but it was a safety issue. At least I have firewood for years to come, and a pond.

>> ^pumkinandstorm:

dead


Dead? It works for me. Maybe region blocked?

Da fuck does MLK have to do with drive-bys?
>> ^quantumushroom:

MLK Blvd? A drive-by in the space shuttle, now that would be something.

>> ^radx:

Your comment beat me by 20 seconds, mate. See my second update and feel free to submit it now.


Submitted and credited you: http://videosift.com/video/Trees-cut-down-so-space-shuttle-can-pass

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by burdturgler.

Sorry .. this is a dupe.
*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Tree-Cutting-MythBusters-Style-Gatling-Gun

*dupe?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Tree-Cutting-MythBusters-Style-Gatling-Gun

Reminds me of when I was 10 and my family moved into an old house surrounded by 2.5 acres of wooded land. My parents had a bunch of old trees cut down and hauled off. Turns out the trees were all older black walnuts, worth an average of $10,000 each. My parents figure they had at least 70 of the trees cut down.

We didn't figure it out until many years later, so we never tried to recoup any of that value from the lucky fucks who got to haul off the trees My Mom says they must have known the value based on how excited they were about the privelege of hauling away several loads of trees.

Here the MythBusters are using one of them for cutting down trees:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tree-Cutting-MythBusters-Style-Gatling-Gun