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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4264296" data-attributes="member: 26737">Elms are really bad if they’re next to your house (over time they’ll defeat both your sewer pipes and foundation), and they’re really hard to pull if they’re more than a few hours old. When I was a kid we had one that got started in the flower bed outside my bedroom window; it was no bigger around than a quarter of an inch, but we couldn’t pull that sucker out with a tractor. My dad and I stripped all the branches and bark off of it more than once, and I think he even got mad a cut it off at ground level once, but it was still there when my folks sold the place. I swear we heard yelling in Chinese when we tried to pull that son of a gun. Those suckers send down deep roots.</blockquote>