For all you arborists...
We are putting crushed stone (crusher run) in our yard for our RV. Once it packs it gets pretty cement like. Still a little permeable but just a little. I’m worried that the trees won’t get enough water and will suffer / die. Did we just screw ourselves by leaving the trees in place?
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You should be fine, we had the same type of driveway for 25 years and all of the trees beside the driveway never had a problem. If fact they still do not have a problem after we paved the driveway. 0 -
You're not allowed to use the "A" word here. 0 -
Don't mound the dirt above the original level. Should be more concerned with root damage. 0 -
it softens up when wet, you have to be careful not to rut it up till it dries out and hardens again.......... 0 -
I guess everyone is different. I’d be thinking “Oh boy, easy firewood!” 0 -
Our original plan was to take them all down. Using them for firewood would Have offset the cost of the work being done. But I just hate to take down a tree unnecessarily so we changed plans after the work started.jimdeere said:I guess everyone is different. I’d be thinking “Oh boy, easy firewood!”
if the trees start to show problems, we will proactively take them down. Till then, they help shield us from being seen from the road.0 -
Is it crushed limestone?
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Plant ferns, they come up thru our asphalt drive 0 -
No expert by no means but I have been told the roots must breathe, bury them= smother them=dead trees. 0 -
It is my understanding you should never mess with tree roots.
I covered some exposed roots with topsoil thinking they had become exposed due to erosion. My beautiful trees died!Experts warn about doing something as simple as putting mulch around the base of trees.There are many variables such as type of tree, type of soil, sunlight and water, depth of soil to bedrock, runoff, wind loading, day of the week, political party, and religious beliefs.
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only good thing is weary, by the time the trees die, if they do, you will be ready for a new RV, let them fall on the old one............ 0 -
i would b concerned with the roots being able to breath also. at this point it would seem as if your future course of action is to wait and sse. 0 -
The tree's will be fine, but the RV underneath may take a beating with sap, leaves, and dropped limbs.
Something to consider.0 -
Are you nuts??? This is where you park RV's. 0 -
Those are all forest rangers, on vacation. Where they go to get away from it all.
Pretty certain your trees will be fine.0 -
I've seen trees growing out of gravel/shale roadbeds, cracks in solid rock, and abandoned concrete feedlot floors. I seriously doubt that a graveled parking area will challenge the trees.
As for being an "aborist", I was once asked how I'd go about "trimming and shaping" some 12' tall trees that had been set out the year before. My response "Well, first I'd make sure the chainsaw was full of gas and then cut them low enough to mow over the stumps". I wasn't asked to "trim and shape" ever again.0 -
The trees that die in my neck of the woods are ALWAYS leaning over/towards the house, shops or carports so as they cannot just simply be cut for firewood, have to be taken down carefully in pieces or few hours rigging winch cables so as they can be cut and pulled to fall in a safe direction, before they get so dead that limbs start falling. (widow makers)
The trees that I do not need for shade, etc, live forever.
Murphy's Law at work again.0 -
First, as stated above do not mulch around the trunks, or let the limestone get right up around the trunks back it off a foot from the trunks. If the rainfall does not soak through you know what will happen. Watch first rains, if it pools or runs off add PVC pipe "holes" in the lime stone around the trees at the drip lines to let the rain soak in and water those roots. I'd a kept them too! 0
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