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Closing out the story.
Got nowhere with Xcel Energy. Besides the hole in the right-of-way, they dug another one under the canopy to run the line to feed his meter. Maybe they killed it, maybe something else did.
The bark started coming loose on some of the upper limbs, so I figured it was dead. A guy left a flyer in my mailbox, I called him up, we did a deal for the tree and a limb that was hanging over the garage in the back yard. We left the trunk for now. It's just about on the lot line and will disappear as trees near it fill in.
The neighbor on the other side ended up putting his duplex up for sale. Listed it on a Thursday, had 7 offers on Saturday, over asking but he wouldn't say how much. He's moving back to Illinois to be closer to his parents. He was there 19 years.
The tree took 2 loads of wood chips, and 2 1/2 loads of logs to haul away. They started on Saturday around 10:00am, worked until about 5:30, then came back on Sunday to pick up the logs. He had a small dump truck, maybe a 10' bed.
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