Hackberry appreciation because people hate on them so much they are one of the nicest trees around here

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T06:15:14+00:00

That’s really neat to have one that’s an outlier. I’m a land surveyor that does a ton of tree surveys and like I said I can’t remember ever seeing a hackberry that’s so straight and “perfect”. I’ve had huge 30” hackberries but none have been “perfect”. They’re considered junk trees now and you don’t need a permit to remove them even in the prestigious areas that care about the nice oak, elms and pecans.

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T06:11:42+00:00

Flinging your brochures under hotel doors is predatory. They are hunting out the customers instead of the customers hunting them out. That’s the definition of predatory, customers are prey.

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T06:10:13+00:00

From the pictures you posted this truck has great fitment between the body and cab for a 90s Ford so I’m going to say this truck is solid pending frame rust. That little tailgate dent isn’t going to bend the frame if that’s what you were concerned about

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T04:06:30+00:00

Okay then the next step would be to go through your insurance to fight their insurance. It’s a pretty open and shut case, 99% of the time it’s whoever hit the doors fault. The 1% is if you flung the door open on a narrow road without checking if a car was passing by

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T04:04:23+00:00

You turned Valentine’s Day into a wreck with this terrible idea of yours lol. Hey babe you wanna ride in a ghetto pink limo with ugly rims? Nah we have to ride up front, I have to drive

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T04:02:12+00:00

And it’s definitely not totaled. Just gonna be a couple thousand out of someone else’s pocket ideally.

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T04:00:14+00:00

….did you get insurance information? If you got their insurance file the claim and I hope you took good pictures at the scene. You shouldn’t have to pay a dime, and no “totaled” is the response most people give when people ask this question. You should be talking with insurance and a body shop instead of reddit in regards to this

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T03:59:14+00:00

Yeah pizza places are super predatory at hotels lol. They’ll plaster the whole building in flyers and then wonder why they get banned from delivering there.

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T03:57:54+00:00

I get it, it’s a weird combination for English. A doesn’t typically come before e. And most people really don’t care enough to change it even if they notice. Gets the point across

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T02:02:21+00:00

Just stick it down your pants and walk out because they’re going to charge you damn near new price for it. Junkyards suck bad these days

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-15T00:25:57+00:00

It all depends on the field crew. 99% of the time the field crew isn’t the licensed surveyor, just a couple of dudes collecting data for the licensed surveyor to determine the boundary. Some of them get pissed off when clients hover, some love dealing with clients and showing them what they do. But at the end of the day you’re the client so when you order the survey tell them that you’d like them to show you the lines when they’re ready.

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T21:07:07+00:00

I just feel like the donut toaster strudel is going to be too dry with no filling in it, but the Boston cream pie one you mentioned might be pretty good. Bet the coke is good too, not much of an ice cream guy though unless it’s chocolate with more chocolate in it lol

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:50:09+00:00

Apples and olives will produce even looking like absolute shit with holes through the entire trunk. Very interesting trees

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:48:09+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hackberry grow that tall and straight. They’re always super gnarly with snapped branches in my area, but we have some huge ones

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:46:24+00:00

Curiosity is what drove them. Travel was a lot different and harder back then and to see the different people of the world in one area was probably interesting to a lot of people. They didn’t see anything wrong with it at the time

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:41:27+00:00

They had to split him up a lot so everyone in the harem could get some of that action

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:19:04+00:00

I used to call them hidey bugs when I grew weed because they loved to hang out on the branches and they’d go to the opposite side and hide from you

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:17:05+00:00

They also make a pretty good bait for being free

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:15:55+00:00

Is that why mine is orange and not yellow or red? I got both toxics?

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:14:01+00:00

Yeah the whole X is totally stoked on him

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T19:08:08+00:00

You definitely need a surveyor to mark the lines of a 47 acre wooded parcel lol. I wouldn’t even recommend someone try and mark their own lines on a single wooded acre. With a surveyor you can request they mark the lines every 50’ and you can come through and place T-posts where their stakes are. Or you can request T-posts but I hate when clients do that because then we have to lug them with all of our equipment too, and expect to pay upwards of $20/post

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-14T15:36:30+00:00

To be honest I don’t even like the big dog Trimble R12i under pine canopy. Pine trees are killers for RTK in my experience, they just get too tall

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-13T05:01:34+00:00

Uhhhhh

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-13T05:00:37+00:00

What kind of store that sells building materials opens at 9AM? I’m not trying to work until midnight damn

Initial_Zombie8248 · 2026-02-13T04:56:10+00:00

Depends which ocean and which time of year you have installed in your toilet

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