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Posted: 12/10/2022 5:17:10 PM EDT

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Yeah but I love it for knife handles

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That would make a beautiful 1911 grip.

Posted: 12/10/2022 5:18:49 PM EDT

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That would make a beautiful 1911 grip.

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Yeah but I love it for knife handles

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That would make a beautiful 1911 grip.

If I knew how to make them I would

Posted: 12/10/2022 5:48:32 PM EDT

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I have 3 massive ones in my backyard. I love the shade, squirrels that live in the knot holes, and noise-dampening. The leaves don't even bother me that much.
I hate the seed pods that explode and stick seeds to everything, especially my gutters. I also hate the giant branches they drop, one of which skewered my deck this year.

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I've got one that is over 100 ft tall, and I would feel better if it was farther away from the house, but so far, the branches it has dropped haven't done any damage. The other Sycamores are far enough away that I don't worry about them. Except for the "surprise, here's a limb coming down" factor, I consider the Honey Locust and Osage to be bigger nuisances (my daughter hates them).

Posted: 12/10/2022 5:57:16 PM EDT

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I've had 3 of mine get sick and had to cut them down before they fell on something. Fuck sycamores.

Posted: 12/10/2022 5:58:20 PM EDT

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Trees are our friends

Posted: 12/10/2022 6:01:17 PM EDT

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So a guy with fake grass is complaining about trees.

Imagine that.

Posted: 12/10/2022 6:55:28 PM EDT

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I've had 3 of mine get sick and had to cut them down before they fell on something. Fuck sycamores.

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(fingers crossed)

tree service told the owners they found multiple holes in rotten limbs, and due to frequent hurricanes it was at risk on falling on their house

SICKamore - highly irritating respiratory

constant rain of tree shlt into our backward and pool

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:03:39 PM EDT

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Fuck sycamore trees with a rusty cactus. I had a huge sycamore across the street from me that was the bane of my existence for nearly 25 years. That fucker dropped shit in my driveway, yard, gutters and etc. 365 days a year. Sycamore leaves. Sycamore balls. branches both small and large. I cleaned up after that bastard almost every single day of my life for decades. I even offered to split the cost of cutting it down with the elderly neighbor who flat out refused. She finally died and her daughter inherited the house. Two summers ago I came home from work one day and a tree removal company had the street blocked. They were cutting that huge bastard down! It was one of the most satisfying days of the decade...

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Posted: 12/10/2022 7:12:26 PM EDT

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Bradford Pear Trees say “hold my cum”
Seriously, who the fuck wants a tree that smells like a goddamn bukakke porn set?

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Is that the tree that does that? Been wondering since high school....

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:13:41 PM EDT

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my dad planted a fuck ton of them at our lake property, the leaves mow up easily, mine dropped off early this year and all at once due to drought I guess, the limbs are crazy and I won't be letting them get too much bigger, at least the ones next to the buildings.

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:13:46 PM EDT

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Fuck sycamore trees with a rusty cactus. I had a huge sycamore across the street from me that was the bane of my existence for nearly 25 years. That fucker dropped shit in my driveway, yard, gutters and etc. 365 days a year. Sycamore leaves. Sycamore balls. branches both small and large. I cleaned up after that bastard almost every single day of my life for decades. I even offered to split the cost of cutting it down with the elderly neighbor who flat out refused. She finally died and her daughter inherited the house. Two summers ago I came home from work one day and a tree removal company had the street blocked. They were cutting that huge bastard down! It was one of the most satisfying days of the decade...

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Posted: 12/10/2022 7:16:51 PM EDT

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Sweet gums are worse!

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:21:10 PM EDT

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Sweet gums are worse!

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sweetgums don't shed their BARK once a year

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:21:21 PM EDT

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I have three huge locust trees on my property and I hate them. Tiny leaves that you can't do anything with. One of them is coming down for sure and I'd love to be able to take the other two down but my other half says no.

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Who goes online to complain about trees?

There are plenty of other things in this country to concern yourself with.

I have three huge locust trees on my property and I hate them. Tiny leaves that you can't do anything with. One of them is coming down for sure and I'd love to be able to take the other two down but my other half says no.

Cut that locust up into fence posts. They’ll outlast you. It’s about the only thing they are good for.

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:22:46 PM EDT

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Here is one that probably won't be making leaves next year. Got struck with lightning a couple weeks ago, peeled the bark off parts of it.

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It'll probably be fine. I watched one get hit by lightning. It splt the tree, and it survived. It popped the bark off it.

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:24:46 PM EDT

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It'll probably be fine. I watched one get hit by lightning. It splt the tree, and it survived. It popped the bark off it.

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Once a year sickamores shed their entire bark....the whole frikken tree

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:25:44 PM EDT

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Cut that locust up into fence posts. They’ll outlast you. It’s about the only thing they are good for.

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Wrong. I planted about 100 of them along a fence line because they grow fast, are nitrogen fixers, and excellent bee forage.

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:26:00 PM EDT

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I had one in my front yard growing up. My father hated it. The bark shed constantly. I thought it was awesome to try and catch the seed pods when they fell out of the tree. They hit like grenades. I watched someone leave their skull on that tree. I am told that was the third person to forever sleep because of that tree.

Posted: 12/10/2022 7:26:02 PM EDT

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They are prone to anthracnose and heartwood rot.

They can suffer from physiological problems from constant expose to artificial nighttime lighting in urban areas.

Posted: 12/10/2022 8:14:41 PM EDT

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Those seed balls are hard and dense. We used to pelt each other with them as kids

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yes, this

Posted: 12/10/2022 8:17:28 PM EDT

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Sweetgum trees are the worst. Seed pods hard, sharp, kill your feet to walk on, tear up the mower and have a half-life of about 87 years

Posted: 12/10/2022 8:21:06 PM EDT

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I’m allergic to them. I cut them down every chance I get

Posted: 12/10/2022 11:14:20 PM EDT

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I’m allergic to them. I cut them down every chance I get

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arborist told us MANY people are allergic to what the sickamores dump

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:28:38 PM EDT

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Who goes online to complain about trees?

There are plenty of other things in this country to concern yourself with.

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Because no one ever comes to the GD to complain.

L.O.L.

Salt Cedar is the worst.

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:33:46 PM EDT

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I think the big sycamores that grow in the river bottoms are gorgeous.

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:34:55 PM EDT

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My favorite tree. The London Plane hybrid is often planted in cities because they're smog and drought tolerant, but true sycamores tend to like riverbanks.

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Awesome pic

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:39:56 PM EDT

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I heard a story about a surveyor's field assistant who was fired (not my company), when a woman employee in a survey office complained that the assistant wrote in his field notes "suckamore" instead of sycamore.

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:47:38 PM EDT

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I heard a story about a surveyor's field assistant who was fired (not my company), when a woman employee in a survey office complained that the assistant wrote in his field notes "suckamore" instead of sycamore.

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Man. Fired for that in a field book? Just say "scrivener's error" and go on about your life.

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:48:52 PM EDT

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They make beautiful lumber. Even more beautiful when its spalted.

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When quartersawn it has a lacy grain pattern that rivals any fancy imported hardwood.

Posted: 12/12/2022 4:50:27 PM EDT

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Sycamore seed balls make good targets at the gun range.

And human caused climate change is causing major pollen count increases...

I used a brush hook to cut down a 1" diameter Sycamore sapling last spring --- I started coughing so much, that my survey party chief ask me if I had Covid 19.