Me: Can I cut down the pear tree Dad: Why? Me:...
as a city kid this is a little difficult for me to understand. you’re saying you have a pear tree? with pears on it? that then fall down??? and you’re saying you’re going to cut it down??????? all by yourself???????? i didn’t think that was a thing people could do? alone?
how exactly does that even work? do you like. have an ax??
Lmao this is wild idk what to even respond to
I live in a city?? We live in a house on a half acre of land. Our dead-end street is made up of several houses like this. (Altho to be fair we’re a small city, about 37,000 in population.) ((My mom is making me add that we’re a highly agricultural state lmao.))
Yes, we do have a pear tree with pears on it that then fall down! We try to pick them but some ripen faster than others so they drop to the ground and rot or get covered with ants/wasps and it’s super gross I hate picking them up. It’s the worst. Unfortunately it’s a very old tree. Even if it didn’t have core rot (so the pears that do ripen have shitty cores that make them hard to eat), it’s not actually giving us a lot of pears anymore, so it’s time to get rid of it.
Yeah, it’s possible! People cut down trees by themselves all the time! (I think you might be envisioning the tree much bigger than it is lol, I'll post a picture later.) And no, I’m not using an ax, haha, that’s adorable. :) There’s no use for an ax to cut down a tree in this day and age. Mostly just use ours to split wood anymore. I used pruners to cut all the smaller branches off, and then tomorrow I’m going to use a saw to cut off the larger limbs. Then my dad will use a chainsaw on the trunk (I am unfortunately not allowed to use a chainsaw) and then we’ll dig the stump out. It’s tedious but not actually that difficult!