I am getting rid of the useless one.

Last fall....my big elm got dutch elms disease...it was really hard to watch it come down though.....I cried.

I'm always having to pull baby maple trees from my front yard and it really is a shame. I've never removed a large tree before, though. It's always sad to see a tree go but maybe you can replace it with something better?

I've never had a yard. Thanks for reminding me.

It has been quite a few years that we had a big tree removed from the back yard. I don't know how old it was since it was here when we moved in but it started to lean really bad and it wouldn't have been much longer until it would have ended up taking about the fence which would be more costly to fix or replace the fence than it was to have the tree removed. It was some type of ash tree I think.

We had a tree at our last house with huge invasive roots that destroyed our driveway and dropped all sorts of debris all over it too. The neighbor hated it and was so happy when we had it chopped down and the trunk removed. We redid our driveway and put up a retaining wall and it looked so much nicer.

It IS hard to get rid of trees, and we have strict laws about whether we can cut them down or not. You need a permit, and can be prosecuted if you remove trees without permission. However, we had to remove a huge casuarina because it was becoming a nuisance. It shed millions of needles, which were an absolute menace. A few years ago we had to remove some willows, which were allegedly causing damage to our neighbour's water pipes. I think the water pipes were damaged long before we moved in - but you have to keep people happy!

Hey Grandpa Bob, it is a cottonwood. They call that white floaty stuff cotton. It isn't really of course, but that is what they call it. I had to have a Maple taken out this year. It would not quit eating my sewer lines. I will miss it, as my daughter spent lots of happy times climbing it, sitting in it. It was a stubborn tree. I cut the seedling down for about five years before I gave up and let it grow. It was huge. I have a friend who is out of work and his whole family came and cut it down. We saved about half of what it would have cost to have a tree trimmer do it.

The last useless thing I got rid of was my ex-husband. But I love dogwoods..now those weeping willows they are a pain and I would have no problem getting rid of one of them. Come to think of it I did. It was in my last house. The neighbors were upset, it shaded their house but it just dropped branches all over my yard.

WE have some of those trees around here also. They are not in my yard though. They are on another piece of property behind our privacy fence. I would like to take them down also because it gets in the swimming pool.

Snow-like fuzz? Sounds like Cottonwood to me, Grandpa Bob. I hate those trees myself because of all the shoots that come up from seed whereever they land.

we got rid of two maples last year that were too close to the house. not only were they a falling risk,the squirrels were using it as a super highway to jump on my roof and chew their way in. the guy that took them down did it for free in exchange for the firewood,so it was a win-win situation

Hi there! There was one big mango tree in our backyard that we had to cut down. It was really big and it bears fruit that we can sell. But it has grown too big that it has gotten in the way where our water tank has been placed. The tree bears fruit and every time it's in season we sell them but it's not delicious and few neighbors like the taste and so most fruits gets rotten only cause no one in the house eats them neither. We decided to take the tree down a few years back. It has taken so much space in the backyard extending to the laundry. Besides, there's still another mango tree in the backyard with fruits so tasty. Ciao!

Hi GRANDPA BOB, Nice to see you here again, its a shame you have to get rid of a tree but if you don't like it well there is nothing you can do but get rid, I love all my trees round here but we are not allowed to cut any trees down as its belong to the council, only they can cut trees down. Tamara

So far we have never cut down a tree for its uselessness. Instead, we had it cut for it's usefulness. You see we were building a house and we could definitely use the trunk as one of the posts. Its name is Acacia Auri and it is considered as hardwood. It is also resistant to termites so it's really very useful for us.

We have what I like to call "weed" trees... some call them Manitoba Maples... They grow like weeds and do nothing but produce seeds spring, summer and fall. I'm constantly pulling out the upstarts. The hibiscis trees are bad for that too, but at least they grow slowly and have pretty flowers.