[item] My three story Bradford Pear tree
[purchase info] Came with the house
[time in my possession] Approximately 5 years
[last used] 2 months ago when a storm broke it
[difficulty level in getting rid of it] Highly difficult
[destination] Landfill… the kind that makes it into mulch
[info] This tree was in my backyard until it was taken out by a storm. These are the worst trees to have, as it’s not if they’re going to break, it’s when. And as always, my trees always fall on my neighbors house or in their yard. So why did I add this to the list? Because I had to get rid of it, involuntarily, but it had to go. I could have kept half of the tree up, cutting down just the broken part (65% of the tree) but the part that was left, if it fell, would probably take out my neighbors fence and car, not to mention my new fence. And it would have fallen into the alley, making in a crisis situation. I had to make the difficult decision to take the whole tree down. Let’s all have a moment of silence for my tree…