tree nuts are falling on my head

Submitted by spacecowboy on August 30th, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Turns out i bought a house in mid-michigan with two rotting but venerable horse chestnut trees in the front yard. I was dismayed I might have erred in judgement when I found remnants of what I thought were buckeyes in the yard.

My neighbors assured me they were "hawkeye" trees and nuts which makes total sense. Both nuts are poisonous to humans, horses, and likely wild wolverines. I have noticed pedestrians and dog walkers seem to pick them up probably due to the fact that they can kill things when ingested in mass quantities.

It all left me feeling nostalgic for the old Big Ten when is was about skunk weasel rivalries, trees, and a few other oddities like wildcats, boilermakers and hoosiers.

Two questions the web did not answer are bugging me. Which nut is tougher to crack?  And, should I like Iowa less than I have to date?   This year I gotta root for the hawkeyes and Cade.  

Here's a link to the phenology for the tree huggers among you.

https://www.indianaphenology.org/post/ohio-buckeye-vs-horse-chestnut

The side by side pic of the trees in the article is misleading as horse chestnuts are generally the larger more majestic tree of the two growing up to 100 feet.    

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firstmachineage

August 30th, 2023 at 1:48 AM ^

there are two different ways you might be paid to cut the trees down: someone wants the wood for furniture or someone wants a specimen tree to plant somewhere else. Definitely explore your options if you want to take those trees down [I live in California, so I probably don't have a contact for you]

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NeverPunt

August 30th, 2023 at 1:37 AM ^

Ok fam, this is like a whole new level of GoJ style post. I see you OP. Let me try to translate:

Two trees in Mid Michigan is the Linebackers. Colson and Barrett are going to be all Americans because they are poisonous when people or dogs are exposed to their nuts in large quantities…

wild wolverines are ex Michigan players ( Cade, All, Carpenter, etc…)

tougher nut to crack means OSU is secretly working on a plan to forfeit the game due to COVID to avoid another loss.

Also BU comin’

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Or something like that…,

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XM - Mt 1822

August 30th, 2023 at 8:05 AM ^

Kidding aside, felling trees is no picnic sometimes, depending on where you are. I have gone over that process of chainsaw safety with my boys many times. Have had them walk with me through the set up on the tree, safety plans, exit routes, and all the other assorted planning that needs to be done in order to make sure you and your saw get out of the woods safely.

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Ernis

August 30th, 2023 at 8:26 AM ^

Breaking about every rule in the book. No safety equipment, holding the saw way above his head, apparently no notch in the tree (which is why it comes back to him - the fell path is obstructed by its mass), and cutting this close to a house you would definitely want either a cherry picker or at least use some lines and wedges to guide it more precisely. Yikes.

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Angry-Dad

August 30th, 2023 at 9:29 AM ^

I guess I just always assume the people in this type of Gifs survive (would think it would not make it as a gif otherwise), but this one makes me wonder.  Hope guy is doing ok now, but that is a violent fall.  

Also, dude hire someone that knows what they are doing.  Trees can and will kill you if you don't know what's up.

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Vote_Crisler_1937

August 30th, 2023 at 7:27 AM ^

Why do you “gotta root” for Cade after he trashed the program on his way out? This after a year of appearing (just my opinion from the seats, could be misinterpreting) like he checked out on the team after the injury. 
 

I don’t wish anything bad for Cade and I hope I’m wrong about his connection to the team after the injury but I also can’t find it in me to root for him proactively. Nor would I be unhappy if he doesn’t play well enough at Iowa. Unless he’s playing OSU or MSU. 

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EGD

August 30th, 2023 at 7:40 AM ^

Eh. McNamara was undoubtedly frustrated that he lost his job to McCarthy and wound up in a situation where transferring was his only realistic path to significant playing time. Certainly it would have been better for him not to make negative public statements about M on his way out but that’s asking an awful lot of a young guy going through a pretty difficult situation. I don’t even remember what it was he said, but it doesn’t appear to have done any noticeable damage. 

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St Joe Blues

August 30th, 2023 at 8:30 AM ^

At least you know your chestnuts aren't edible. Try living with a bitternut hickory tree, the Tantalus of nut trees, dropping bushels of edible nuts. The problem, as the name suggests, is they are too bitter to consume.

But hey, at least you're not Cameron Brown eating deez nuts.

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August 30th, 2023 at 8:46 AM ^

Took a trip to Ireland this past spring and during a horse and carriage ride in Kilkenny, our driver saw I was wearing an M jacket.  At one point he looks me square in the eye and said “That tree right there is a Buckeye tree sir.  As you already know, it’s a worthless nut.”  He giggled and then whistled the theme from “ The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”.

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