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red oak tree

  • 08-07-2012 11:41pm
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭


    How much would a red oak tree be worth down the line. I'm hoping to buy one soon and grow it.


Comments

  • #2
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    I'm not convinced about your business plan.

    Step 1: Plant sapling (€15)
    Step 2: Fence around it 4 posts, wire etc (€25)
    Step 3: Wait 200 years
    Step 4: Great great grandchild, aged 60, sells it approx €300 in todays money.

    Do you see the problem here?


  • #3
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,757 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    OP how old are you?:pac:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    blue5000 wrote: »
    OP how old are you?:pac:

    i'm 27 why


  • #5
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    If you have to ask...........................................:D


  • #6
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    iverjohnston wrote: »
    I'm not convinced about your business plan.

    Step 1: Plant sapling (€15)
    Step 2: Fence around it 4 posts, wire etc (€25)
    Step 3: Wait 200 years
    Step 4: Great great grandchild, aged 60, sells it approx €300 in todays money.

    Do you see the problem here?
    blue5000 wrote: »
    OP how old are you?:pac:


    somewhere back in the early 1900's some of my ancestors took hindsight to plant a grove of douglas fir in an waste area on the river bank.

    roll on 70 years or so I was building my dwelling house and money was scarcer than hen's teeth, got my felling license hired a guy with a ford county and a winch and took out the grove

    got all the roofing timber for the house and some farm sheds, sold the remainder and the cash went a long way with the construction work

    the site was neglected for a number of years but about 17 years ago we cleaned it up and replanted along with some more, and now have a promising plantation of d fir


    @ cena as you can gather from the other answers you most likely will never see any financial gain form the venture and it's almost impossible to put a value on the tree "down the line"

    but a tree can have much more value than it's financial worth
    shortly after each of my children were born my late father in law arrived with a tree sapling and his spade , shortly after he died we planted a red sycamore in his memory ,, those 5 trees will never be felled


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