Tree Butchery

[AssKissinger]

This is right in front of my apartment. Fucking assholes!

[FG Lurker]

This is right in front of my apartment. Fucking assholes!

They do it to the trees here every year. The next year they are bushy as hell again. Freaked me out the first time I saw a prune job like that too though.

[AssKissinger]

This is right in front of my apartment. Fucking assholes!

They do it to the trees here every year. The next year they are bushy as hell again. Freaked me out the first time I saw a prune job like that too though.

I read Dogs and Demons so I'm almost afraid to ask... but why?

[FG Lurker]

This is right in front of my apartment. Fucking assholes!

They do it to the trees here every year. The next year they are bushy as hell again. Freaked me out the first time I saw a prune job like that too though.

I read Dogs and Demons so I'm almost afraid to ask... but why?

Cause TIJ?

Really though, I guess it is the only way they can keep the trees from hitting those wires. It might even be the way those trees are supposed to be pruned, for all I know...

I only know that they do it around here every year. First time I saw it I figured they were getting ready to come along and chop em all down. Nope. Sure enough, the next year the trees were as big and bushy as ever. Go figure.

[Samurai_Jerk]

It might even be the way those trees are supposed to be pruned, for all I know...

Yeah, that could be. Some trees and bushes are supposed to be pruned way back each year.

[GuyJean]

I read Dogs and Demons so I'm almost afraid to ask... but why?

I think it has to do with the fear of tall things falling on people or houses in typhoons coupled with a Shinto culture that reveres nature by micro-managing and controlling it (bonsai)... Or job security for the mafia controlled arborists?

It seems like a moderate pruning every year would be more appealing than an mutilation every three.. I love new Tokyo stumps..

GJ

[dimwit]

I read Dogs and Demons so I'm almost afraid to ask... but why?

I think it has to do with the fear of tall things falling on people or houses in typhoons coupled with a Shinto culture that reveres nature by micro-managing and controlling it (bonsai)... Or job security for the mafia controlled arborists?

It seems like a moderate pruning every year would be more appealing than an mutilation every three.. I love new Tokyo stumps..

GJ

I get the feeling that many city require tree over a certain height to be controled. It is possible that the tree butchers are controlled by yakuza is the same way as construction is be I have never heard an evidence to suggest it. More likely they are able to lobby very effectively (i.e.-payoff politicians).

I have heard** the reason they cut branches off the trees is that it is supposted to control infections and get rid of unhealthly growth. Since the do nothing to tar the cut branches the arguement seems counterintuitive. Given the lack of professionalism of many of the tree cutters I seriously doubt the health of any tree is improve by their efforts.

Matsuyama is infamous for its' tree butchers and since they start cutting about now, we are almost always assured of having no shade during the rainy season or and sweltering summer.

[sirwanksalot]

This is REAL tree butchery.

[samuraiwig]

This sounds stupid, even for 'TIJ', but I've heard that branches of trees are not allowed to grow into roads, so they are almost always lopped off on that side.

Also, there's some kind of regulation about leaves falling on roads. Local authorities apparently have to minimise the number of leaves on the road. Given the conspicuous absence of urban planning I guess this is down to spurious safety concerns.

It all fits together. I was sitting in a 'park' this afternoon - the ground was 80% concrete and the trees were all set well back from sidewalks and roads so there was no shade to be had.

If you want to see real tree butchery head to the Expo. The organizers seem to have decided that everything should be made out of wood to demonstrate the environmental theme. God knows how many trees died for the globalization extravaganza.

[Charles]

Apropos of this topic, people might enjoy a video I'm hosting on my website, I titled it The Old Man and the War Against The Trees

[emperor]

A group of self-righteous people from my nieghbourhood are going around trimming this and cutting that if it is just outside your house or encroaches onto the footpath.

Ironically, I just saw them doing this for the first time about 1 hour ago... I went out to ask what they were doing and then they proceeded to bark instructions to me on what to do - bring this bag of branches and earth over there and sweep this etc - WTF!!?? Fuck Off!!

As I watched them interfering with our shit, it brought my attention to something else:
Theres a nice tree outside my house thats been there for 30 years plus - and looks like its been recently hit and knocked to an angle by a bus or a truck

I think ill lay down some claymores and beartraps outside the pad = keep the fuckers away...

[Big Booger]

Does aggressive pruning improve the vitality of the tree? I wonder...

[Charles]

Does aggressive pruning improve the vitality of the tree? I wonder...

Pruning can improve the vitality of trees, but not the way the Japanese do it. Cutting the tips of the branches is exactly the wrong way to do it.

[AssKissinger]

This is REAL tree butchery.

Not that I'm saying it's right but at least the trees that were used for that timber were used for something useful. The trees all around my town were vandalized for no sane reason. And one of the really sad things is there's a little park right there and now there's no shade and nothing beautiful for the kids and their mothers to enjoy. Plus, there's nothing to absorb the noise pollution from that nearby factory.

Apropos of this topic, people might enjoy a video I'm hosting on my website, I titled it The Old Man and the War Against The Trees

Charles! Man, that is excellent work. I like the way you explained what it's about. My Japanese is shit so I need that.

[GuyJean]

Charles! Man, that is excellent work. I like the way you explained what it's about. My Japanese is shit so I need that.

Yeah, that was cool.. Some people need to be drop kicked.. And his house torched for blocking the view from his neighbors..

GJ

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think a great response would be for the city to rake up a few truckloads of leaves and dump them all right on the guy's property.

[Blah Pete]

Man vs. Tree

That old man should hurry up and die.
The city officials have enough on video of him shoving them they could charge him. The should take the video over to the J-cops and get them to at least scare the guy a little.