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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
rgauthier,
You havent seen either white pines, dwarf spruce or Arborvites, or any other choice on a berme before? It adds to the effect, and makes mowing and weed control growth easier..its real popular around these parts, and besides being popular it looks real nice!!
Ducati996
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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
In addition to adding quick height and sometimes ameliorating the soil conditions, a very important function of the berm is sound reduction, which is why you often see it along roadways.
People frequently plant trees thinking they will cut down noise. From both my sound engineer present and from my past in landscape architecture, it doesn't work that way. Even a fairly dense planting only stops the highest frequencies; to really stop broad range noise you need mass and complete coverage.
For visual privacy, though, trees are a lot more attractive!
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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
Sounds like the plan is in hand but that's a good comment. I hadn't thought about sound reduction but it sure would help and definitely would be a reason to build a birm. Both the highway and railroad enter mild cuts along our property. At our camp they are twice as far but are above grade. Both are much louder at our camp--especially the railroad, which goes through 50 yards of dense bush before hitting open meadow. The bush doesn't do much about the train noise.
I don't know enough about tree root systems to know if some species fair better on birms than others. Ones that form taproots likely would be the most wind-firm. Another engineer and musician: Good to know and I'll try to keep my focus on tractor stuff.
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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
Maybe in the suburbs,I'm a country guy myself,we tend to look at the location not the house first before buying,who in there right mind would buy a place than build a high burm around it to try and keep out noisy neighbors,and noise,these is why we got democrats and republicans,guess which one I am. Richard
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posted edited by Ducati996 to keep the peace
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MOMMMMM, they're at it again !!!!
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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
Actually Murf I'm finished on this thread because the advice
I received earlier in the post was great. I will follow it in the spring when I start this...there should be no need to waste bandwidth on this thread now on this topic IMO..
Ducati996
P.S I keep getting the emails to advise me someone posted on this post, how do you shut it off?
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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
Go back to the thread and click on edit, then change your notify preference on the original question.
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Need advice on building a privacy barrier w dwarf fur or spruce
I have started to think about this project again even though
I have plenty of winter left to deal with...I realized I have a picture that shows the fence line I'm looking to put a natural barrier along. Its picture #16, and I got some great advice earlier. Maybe this picture will help in visualizing what I'm trying to do.
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Duc, you have a lot of nice toys!!!! ;o) I almost forgot to look at the fence row. ;o) Hedges come to mind for me to plant along the fence row. I think it would look nice although you would have to periodically trim them.
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