Colorado B.S. Thread

5am this morning

 

I was so bummed,
First break on that tree in24 years.
Had my tree guy come clean up,
hes coming back later this week to cleanup the break.

Nice thinking with Iris!!!!

 

Damn!! I wouldn't have expected that

 

Me neither..
Thats my shade tree
Itll be fine though!!!!

 

I shook off the lower branches I could reach. That one broke from up top. I'm no tree guru, I think it's some sort of oak. It's solid and heavy.

 

Yeah, 2” of that heavy slush is enough. Thankfully, the previous owners of our house had both of the huge cottonwoods removed prior to selling it. Having those beasts hanging over the house and the shop and my truck would be so sketchy in a late storm like that.

My favorite tree on the property is an adolescent sugar maple in the backyard. It always leafs out way later in the spring, so it had no issues last night, which was good.

 

Do you have to deal with Box Elder bugs in your maple?

 

Glad to hear it's gonna make it

Gotta have a good shade tree for those yard beers huh

 

That’s about all you can do with more mature trees

Last spring we had that late storm that dumped around 12” or so up here, but it wasn’t as dense. My lady and I were out in the backyard to let the dog do its thing and we heard this massive crack and looked over just in time to see a huge limb from our neighbor’s tree peel of and nearly hit their shed roof. You could see that whole upper part of the tree was just loaded up and sagging like crazy. Kinda crazy that we timed it perfectly.

 

Yeah but the good thing about these bike is you can always upgrade them. Throw a simple rockshox silver on it, comes with lockout for the climbs and then you can loosen it up a bit for the fun part.

 

You know it!!

 

I haven’t seen any on the tree, but we have seen them around.

Are they a problem for maples?

 

As far as I know they're not a problem for the tree just a human inconvenience

If you had em in your trees they'd be in your house, garage, car. They get everywhere within a certain distance of the trees lol

 

Poison my dude

 

I lost my leader on my ash tree which was real sad and the neighbors cottonwood got smoked

 

That’s a bummer. I was out all day yesterday keeping my trees and bushes clear.

 

Sorry about your late snow Denver. We got rain in FOCO.. while you were using your shovel today, we were enjoying sunshine.

Hope none of you had any property damage.

 

I should watch that again to see if it still is funny.

 

Yup!! Due to the shortages I bought a used beater giant in 2020 to hold me over and I put a RockShox recon silver on it. Does pretty damn well.

The spring fork the Polygon came with is probably fine for what I do if I order the heavier spring