Not long (for a tree). It should be removed as soon as your city/county has the money.
Fucking *Roblox ooof* that’s some damage.
Right_Hook_Rick
Honestly my city does this basically all over the place as they replace old infrastructure, and most of the time they just decline over a course of two to four years until we remove them. Theres a few streets like this where I thought they’d go down like domino’s and it never happened. Engineering vs forestry department is a war being played out all over town.
That being said, its still more likely to happen than if they hadn’t done this root damage.
Lumpy-Turn4391
This should be a crime. Man people are stupid
DanoPinyon
JFC.
This is why we can’t have nice things in MURRICA. If cities had the balls to take 8 feet for treelawns, we’d rarely have these problems.
Professional_Beer
14 minutes
reddit33450
ugh, awful. what a shame
steamedlobstrrr
Thanks, I hate it.
No_Candle_3805
Dang dude. Shit like this should be illegal, or at least people should be prohibited or educated against doing this, Trees are more important for a better walking experience than sidewalks.
roblewk
2 years and 3 months, when the wind hits it just right. Don’t park there.
Lazy_Exit_8485
I don’t get it. What was there prior? The neighbors seem to have sidewalks.
Louisiana_sitar_club
However, that’s a really cool looking cross-section of an active root zone.
usual_suspect_redux
Decades.
em_washington
These trees are poorly located.
They’d have to bend the sidewalk a long way into the yard to avoid damaging the tree and very well could be the case that they don’t enough right-of-way to do that. For the first tree, that’s probably why they just narrowed the sidewalk on the tree side, but didn’t extend it on the lawn side. That’s likely as narrow as they are allowed to go for lawful ADA pedestrian access.
If that’s the case, then the only choices left are to take the tree down now or hack job like this and maybe it has a chance to survive for a little longer.
hippiegodfather
What good is a sidewalk with no shade
Tangsta1
This is brutal. I do the sidewalk designing and implementation in my city and at the very least I would man up and take out the tree, replacing it with structural soil system and plans a 2.5” caliper tree that will thrive there for the next 100 years
DanoPinyon
> how long until these trees fall over?
That reminds me: a few weeks ago, we had a post on the tree subs where a delivery truck caught the branches of a tree that had undergone sidewalk repair – very similar to the tree in pic #4. The truck knocked the tree over instead of tearing off the branch.
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Not long (for a tree). It should be removed as soon as your city/county has the money.
Fucking *Roblox ooof* that’s some damage.
Honestly my city does this basically all over the place as they replace old infrastructure, and most of the time they just decline over a course of two to four years until we remove them. Theres a few streets like this where I thought they’d go down like domino’s and it never happened. Engineering vs forestry department is a war being played out all over town.
That being said, its still more likely to happen than if they hadn’t done this root damage.
This should be a crime. Man people are stupid
JFC.
This is why we can’t have nice things in MURRICA. If cities had the balls to take 8 feet for treelawns, we’d rarely have these problems.
14 minutes
ugh, awful. what a shame
Thanks, I hate it.
Dang dude. Shit like this should be illegal, or at least people should be prohibited or educated against doing this, Trees are more important for a better walking experience than sidewalks.
2 years and 3 months, when the wind hits it just right. Don’t park there.
I don’t get it. What was there prior? The neighbors seem to have sidewalks.
However, that’s a really cool looking cross-section of an active root zone.
Decades.
These trees are poorly located.
They’d have to bend the sidewalk a long way into the yard to avoid damaging the tree and very well could be the case that they don’t enough right-of-way to do that. For the first tree, that’s probably why they just narrowed the sidewalk on the tree side, but didn’t extend it on the lawn side. That’s likely as narrow as they are allowed to go for lawful ADA pedestrian access.
If that’s the case, then the only choices left are to take the tree down now or hack job like this and maybe it has a chance to survive for a little longer.
What good is a sidewalk with no shade
This is brutal. I do the sidewalk designing and implementation in my city and at the very least I would man up and take out the tree, replacing it with structural soil system and plans a 2.5” caliper tree that will thrive there for the next 100 years
> how long until these trees fall over?
That reminds me: a few weeks ago, we had a post on the tree subs where a delivery truck caught the branches of a tree that had undergone sidewalk repair – very similar to the tree in pic #4. The truck knocked the tree over instead of tearing off the branch.
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