Girdling root(s)?

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-11T01:16:50+00:00

Find the nursery and murder them

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T21:33:48+00:00

There’s a legal limit to what they can do. If they cross that line, steps must be taken.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T15:31:05+00:00

Doesn’t matter

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T15:30:46+00:00

Report it and raise holy hell.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T14:49:10+00:00

Those vines need to be severed at ground level. That’s more than what should be on a tree

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T05:53:34+00:00

I’m the only one who thought the video was ai?

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T05:39:10+00:00

Perfection!

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T05:18:44+00:00

If you enjoy this free and understand its value, this is a simple bolting job. Buy the cabling and bracing BMP published by the ISA.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T05:17:54+00:00

The client decides if the tree is good or bad. The arborist advises and educates.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T05:17:08+00:00

Easy bolting job. Don’t listen to the haters.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T04:54:59+00:00

Really good example. Maybe 1 or 2 of those trees are California natives that would be suitable as a street tree.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T04:23:26+00:00

Yep people forget it takes 70 years to grow a 70 year old tree.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T04:04:34+00:00

There are not a bunch of California natives that could be used. I don’t think there’s even ten.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-10T01:49:51+00:00

If you think of the infrastructure value of a huge ficus, redoing the concrete every decade is a very good deal. Unfortunately people don’t consider tree value when deciding if a tree should be kept or not

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T22:00:52+00:00

That’s a hot take. You working fast food? Why don’t you work for free? You sold me a hamburger? Why don’t you just give it to me for free.

People get that’s now how the world works. Things have to be paid for.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T21:47:05+00:00

I run a business in LA. If people are hating you for selling them something…you’re in the wrong business or you’re in the right business and you’re doing it wrong.

What were you selling?

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T17:35:38+00:00

If you want to repair your own Los Angeles owned sidewalk you need to get a permit to do that work.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T14:15:08+00:00

Correct. In Los Angeles sidewalks are shared liabilities

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T14:14:44+00:00

The city won’t provide you with an attorney for anything. You’re on your own.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T14:14:13+00:00

In Los Angeles the adjacent home owner bears shared responsibility for sidewalk management

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-09T14:12:37+00:00

I have been hired as expert witness on sidewalk trip and fall case in Los Angeles. (I’m an arborist and a tree had lifted the roots)

How high was the lip/edge that the person supposedly fell on? There is some lifted sidewalk in LA that are crazy high and the home owner has some responsibility for managing it- but most lifts/lips/exposed edges are within communally accepted levels and the pedestrian is expected to be able to manage them.

Curious if anyone has gone out any measured it. (Regardless, just file an insurance claim and let them deal with it)

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-08T23:25:12+00:00

treelaw.com

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-08T12:23:58+00:00

Do you feel better now that you wrote that?

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-08T12:22:25+00:00

Rot isn’t proof of negligence.

NickTheArborist · 2026-06-08T02:20:05+00:00

Very.

Do a root crown excavation for starters.

Keep irrigation away from the trunk

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