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Default How to prune the top of a 30 foot oak tree so it's a 20 foottall oak tree

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:19:15 +0000, Red Green wrote:

Jules Richardson wrote in
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:39:22 -0700, jamesgangnc wrote:
You're wasting your time. Cut it down and plant a tree that doesn't
get over 20 ft. OR live with it.


Or raise your house by 10 feet :-)

We have a Rube & Darwin approach so far...


No, the Darwin approach would be to excavate under the tree and lower it
by the required amount :-)

Nobody's mentioned a periscope yet, either.