Real or Artificial?

[SwampDonkey]

I don't worry about the cutting of a good balsam fir, because we have billions all through the woods. I don't know of a woodlot that hasn't got some fir around here. This year there was a lot of new seed in all them cones. The tops of some trees look brown because of all the busted up fir cones that fell apart in the wind. ;)

[ST Ranch]

REAL TREE !!!

I grow and sell Christmas trees as part of my ranch operations - I grow most of them on Utility ROWs [agreement with utility company to manage vegatation to a certain tree height] where ther are just mowed with a hydro-axe if left to nature.

I sell them to Boy Scout and 4H groups on the Canadian Prairies as well as to US wholesalers.

top 3 pics are of trees on ROW and bottom 2 are of the tree yard and loading.

Tom



  

  

  

  

 

[Maine372]

 

figured I would post some proof. took daughter (20 months) and wife (behind the camera) out in the woods and cut one down the old fashioned way. cut it Monday and had to leave it in the driveway today and let the snow melt off! just brought it in, didn't turn out to bad for a woods tree.

[thecfarm]

Now that is a Christmas card picture.

[g_man]

Neat. I agree with cfarm.
imagine cutting a couple cord of pulp a day that way.

[Roger2561]

I remember as a child, my dad, siblings (8 siblings) and I would go to the woods with dad carrying the axe to get a tree.  All of us had to agree which tree was worthy for us.  I tell ya, dad had to be an angel for the patience he had while we decided which tree was the best one for the house.  Today I have an artificial tree.  I simply do not have the time to keep it watered nor the time to go get one.  Plus, where I live the cheapest price for a 7 footer will run around $65.00 to $75.00/tree.  Roger       

[SwampDonkey]

Hahaha, I can remember dad taking us to the woods a couple days after Christmas. Not for a Christmas tree, but to cut firewood for next year or softwood logs. Could (mother) barely hold him off that long. If not the woods, then on the end of a potato rack. That's what his old man was like before him...so.. :D :D

[Roxie]

We have had the same artificial tree for 25 years.  It's still beautiful, and because there are serious allergy problems in the family, our only option. 

[Ianab]

Artificial again this year, just hauled it down from storage in the ceiling, unfolded it, and plugged it in, and we are good to go.

Lara topping it off.


Built in LEDs 



So yeah, it's starting to look like Christmas here, in a summery sort of way.  :D

[RynSmith]

Look how big Lara is!      

[Jeff]

Artificial due to severe allergies in our household. I'm quite contact allergic to any kind of fir.

[sawguy21]

Artificial here. We always had a real tree when I was a kid but they were plentiful and free. It was a great outing for the family, of course dad did all the work cutting and dragging it to the road.
Space here is at a premium so a small one on the coffee table keeps Karen and the grand children happy.

[SwampDonkey]

Allergies aren't fun. I knew someone extremely allergic to fir, even just the smell. That doesn't bode well when the woods is full of fir about anywhere you step up here. There are lots of people that use black spruce brush as well for trim and wreaths, it has a more sweat odor to it. Plus a lot of white pine. The poor old white pine I planted near the road gets mangled by the moose and clipped by Christmas brush seekers. Man, I saw 4 white pine today back in the woods, all around 8 feet tall, or where before the moose removed all the bark and limbs and needles. I have no idea why moose hate white pine. :D