>>2658739Golf course bought a farm near me and bulldozed and chipped all of the oaks that were in the former pastureland. Some of these trees were over 4 ft in diameter. I have no idea why someone making a golf course wouldn’t want to incorporate such beautiful trees, or why someone who was going to remove an ancient white oak wouldn’t mill it for lumber, but they all got shoved into a Vermeer and turned into mulch.
Yes, I asked them if I could buy logs from them, but they weren’t interested in selling.
Anyways, the reason the trees had to go was that the golf course designer wasn’t interested in the existing topography, they scrapped all the topsoil into a pile, and spent all summer rearranging the subsoil layers, moving hill and creating a new topography like a kid playing in a sandbox before covering everything back over with the topsoil and planting the grass. About a dozen large bulldozers and a few quad track tractors pulling scrapers working 12 hours a day for 3 months.
