October 1, 2011
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VERY SAD!
I know the utility companies have to do what they have to do but this looks so sad and butchered to me. I'm not a 'tree hugger' but I am a lover of trees. Nevertheless this tree bravely put on the colors of fall. I couldn't pass it by without capturing this shot.
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Comments (26)
The utility companies don't seem to have an eye for creating beauty when they are maintaining their right of ways.
@C_L_O_G - I must remember it is "their right away" but still....
I'm not a tree hugger either. But our neighbor had the most beautiful, perfectly shapped Maple tree. It was perfectly round, not hovering over the house, but perfectly low and dense. Every year everyone loved how it would perfectly change color and in the summer months, well, it was just beautiful. The town came through and did much the same thing to it as in this picture only to half of the tree. Such a shame. Have a great weekend!!!
@MadraysGarden - Sad to see but guess it has to be done. You have a nice weekend also!
Butchered is the right word. Could it not have been done with an eye for symmetry and balance?
@Dominie - You'd think so wouldn't you! Thanks for your comment.
aargh ... I hate to see this "pruning" ... just ruins the moment ... i want to ask why did they put power lines so close to trees ... or why plant trees so close to power lines? harumph ...
@windupherskirt - Evidently the trees look so small when 1st planted maybe is why. It isn't likely the power lines were moved to where the trees were. We understood here at our place that the power lines were to be buried so we foolishly believed them only to learn later they were not. So we also have several trees we watch grow taller and bigger ...but we trim our own and try to do so nicely rather than have the power company hack into them. Thanks for the comment
Wonder why they didn't cut ALL the limbs off, to a certain height, so it wouldn't look so terrible!?!? In a town not far from me, they did the same thing to a Sasafras (sp) tree. I was beautiful, old, and huge!! I didn't know they grew that big. Just RUINED the looks of that old tree!!!
Sad is right. I'd rather they just take it down and give the home owner a new tree to be planted a bit farther away from the lines! The city planted red maples on one side of the street when they did a big repaving/widening project. They planted crab apples on the other. Guess which side the power lines are on.... stupidity reigns.
I am a tree hugger, kind of, but I know they are a renewable resource. I'm not a radical about it.
I don't like our trees chopped down. Sometimes we have to do it. It seems to me the tree should be cut down if it looks like that. I drove by a treeline one time that looked very lopsided because of the utility company. A girl I was babysitting at the time exclaimed, 'My Mom would call the cops if they did that to our trees!' 
@GrannyHummingbird - @murisopsis - @mcbery -
Since I am getting comments from other places than my area of Iowa I guess this happens all over. It does seem outrageous to do so much trimming and then not taking the time to make it even and looking better. Thanks for your comments.
Looks like a drunken monkey got a hold of the chainsaw.
I suppose folks need to better plan where the trees are planted, or go underground with the electric.
@WildWomanOfTheWest - LOL I can't tell you the last time I saw a drunken monkey with a chain saw! LOL
That is disturbing to me also. I have seen some like that in our area...They could just trim it down like GrannyHummingbird said.. I'm just glad all of our wires and cables are underground.
nice pic
@dingdongdingbat - Thanks for the comment. Yes underground cables are the answer to solve this but way out of the budget for our rural electric cooperative but for new construction I think.
@dmcx2010 - thank you!
That is nice.
so very sad..no thought or feeling behind it.
@andreas_d - Thank you Andreas.
Tree abuse! That looks terrible!
@ItsWhatEyeKnow - I agree, it surely could have been done in a better way than that. Thanks for the comment.
looks like it's ok though
we went without electricity for 40 hours in the spring so I believe in cutting the trees and people around here will not cut them cause it cost money and a lot but when it's around the box you need to do it before it gets too large or you will have a butchered tree.
when they came this spring and did the neighbors -my hubby said,"that is just sad." they really butchered her trees but like I told him that she had all this time to do it herself -years and because of her and Mr.Wicker(in his 90's) you werent' crying then.
@Babyboomerjill - I understand that but still shaping a tree up would help rather than leave it so butchered...I know the utilities do what they have to do....sad nevertheless.
@Lucy_or_Ethel - yes, hubby looked at the lady next to us tree and said,"that's a cold shot." and he thinks they should have tried ,too and I just am glad that they got all the houses trimmed and we won't have to go without again.
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