The tree is dead. Will there be a new tree?
A Quincy Quarry News photo

– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News.

Quincy’s longtime sideways tree at Coddington Hall, along with many others, is dead.

The fate of the at least twice knocked sideways and much larger than a sapling tree planted at the hastily finished up late Coddington Hall project last fall is tragically sealed.

At least it is per Quincy Quarry’s expert forestry adviser Professor Jack Pine, PhD.

So too are at least six other trees planted at the same time, so resulting in nearly half of the trees planted on the Coddingt0n Hall grounds last fall as having failed to thrive.

Whether – or not – the City of Quincy opts to see these now also obvious public safety hazards removed, much less replaced, anytime soon remains to be seen.

Expensive dead trees awaiting termites
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Given the typically lengthy response time for the City of Quincy to finally respond to tree service requests from locals fearing damage from dangerously damaged or dead city-owned trees threatening their private property, a long-extended avoidance of the fatal scene is thus recommended.

Per Dr. Pine’s treecropsy, the cause of death was neither the barely record-setting snowfall last winter nor road salt poisoning.

For one thing, the deceased conifers have very specifically evolved over hundreds of millennia to survive a snowy winter.

And for another, Quincy residents are all to familiar with the record-setting spending on snow removal by the City of Quincy did not exactly set records of successfully dealing with the snow and thus road salt is in no way seen as a possible cause of death.

That and the many small as well as far more salt vulnerable bushes around bases of the deceased have survived.

At least they have so far.

Dead tree left standing upright at its wake
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Rather, per Pine, he believes, given his review of exclusive Quincy Quarry photos, that death was the all but inevitable result of these expensive trees enduring roughly a week time left out on hot asphalt during a heatwave while less than well-watered during this trauma.  

That and how the now tragically deceased were planted at easily the worst time of the year as well as circumstances for transplanting such large and thus expensive trees.

As such, one can only wonder if the landscaper will be obligated to pay for replacing these expensive trees or if local taxpayers will be stuck for the bill.  Given how the ran both over-budget and late Coddington Hall project so forced the much less than optimal time of the year to plant these now dead trees, one can only reasonably expect an extended argument as to which party should be stuck with the bill.

Either way, figure around a $15,000.00 total removal and replacement cost – if, that is replacements are actually ever planted – to replace trees that did not have to die needlessly care of unarguably suspect project management.

Ashes to ashes, mulch to mulch.
A vermeer.com.au image

Expect Quincy Quarry to publish word of the time and place of the deceased trees memorial services and/or eternal internment as soon word might actually be provided by the City of Quincy.
In the meanwhile, the Quarry continues to seek sufficient corroboration of rumors that the fancy new slate and copper roof at Coddington Hall leaks to publish a feature story about these latest leaks care of the leak-prone Koch Maladministration.

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