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Entergy expends lots of energy making half-trees in Searcy Arkansas.

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

 

Half treesHave you driven by and seen something like this?

A good ole Southern country boy's reaction might be, "Why, them ain't nuthin' but hafatrees."

In fact, I agree.  We find these half-trees a lot in the Searcy Arkansas area.  Entergy, the power company who services the area, sends out men in trucks with buckets and trims the tree away from the power lines.  Why they don't just tell the property owner that they have to cut the trees down escapes me.  Maybe they think half a tree is better than no tree at all. 

This scene above is on Country Club Road and the Country Club is shown in the distance through the half-trees.

Comments (14)

Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@Properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Barbara, those are really funny looking trees.  I'll have to keep my eyes open for some up here!

Mar 16, 2010 02:12 AM
Anonymous
SHS 51

Like you said, "Half a loblolly is better than none".

 

Mar 16, 2010 02:31 AM
#2
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Patricia, at times we see a tree with the middle cut out.  Those are funny looking too.

SHS 51, you put it better than I did.  Are those loblolly pines? 

Mar 16, 2010 02:53 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Barbara, this happens all over the country wherever there are power lines.  The pine tree in front of my house is one funny looking pine tree.  The interesting thing they look a lot funnier when the power lines have been removed and run underground and there are no poles and wires to "explain" the condition:)

Mar 16, 2010 03:02 AM
C. Bartch
Newark, OH

Yes that particular scene is all too familiar in part of GA too Barbara. The loblolly pines on my old property in MD had much thinner trunks.

Mar 16, 2010 03:35 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Charles, I'll bet they do look funny if lines are buried.  Trees as I have pictured are also causing the roads to be bad with roots pushing up the asphalt.  I don't know who will fix the roads.  Seems to me a landowner ought to be responsible for his tree's damage.

Mar 16, 2010 03:42 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Cynthia, with all the loblolly pines in Georgia the power companies have a real job.  I see that butterfly is still on your shoulder!!

Mar 16, 2010 03:44 AM
Anonymous
SHS 51

Barbara, I don't know if those are loblolly pines or not. When it comes to identifying trees, I'm sorta like the tone deaf feller who said that he recognized only two tunes-- the "Star Spangled Banner" and one other one. I can ID two trees -- the deciduous and all the others. I chose "loblolly" because of the alliteration with "loaf". ; )

Bob C.

Mar 16, 2010 10:42 AM
#8
Anonymous
Ludean Kidd

I hate to see the trees cut up, but the process of cutting the limbs in such a fashion has kept us from being without electricity.  We did have a lot of interupted power, but aren't troubled with it so much any more.

Mar 16, 2010 10:49 AM
#9
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Bob, to tell the truth, i don't know what deciduous trees are.  But your bringing loblolly up reminds me of Georgia pines where I grew up.

Ludean, don't you know they have a full time job for lots of folks just keeping trees trimmed. 

Mar 16, 2010 12:23 PM
Elizabeth Bolton
RE/MAX Destiny Real Estate Cambridge, MA - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge MA Realtor

Hi Barbara ~ I think all the drastic pruning by the utility companies is a real bummer. I wonder all the time why - in this day and age - it still looks like the days of the Gold Rush with these ancient poles and wires strung across the streets. There has to be a better way.

Liz

Mar 16, 2010 04:42 PM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Godmother,

When  I scale those trees, I only go on the one side. Happy St Paddy's Day.

Godson

Mar 17, 2010 04:44 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Liz, I guess if they buried all the lines we'd be afraid to dig a hole in our yard for fear of hitting a line.  There really is no telling how much it costs them to trim trees all over the country.

Nutsy, you are truly a smart squirl.  Those evil ones are probably thinking you'd cavort on the empty side of the tree.  Dunces they are.....

Mar 17, 2010 05:47 AM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Godmother, I would have more to say, but suffice it with the words of wisdom below.

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