Minnesota Christmas Tree

by Amanda Stadther

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Minnesota Christmas Tree

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Amanda Stadther

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Each festive season, 60,000 lights sparkle on a spectacular Christmas tree in Bloomington, Minnesota. The 53-foot oak tree has been drawing crowds since 2001.
Two tree service employees in a boom truck spend three weeks wrapping each limb and finger-sized branch in lights and keeping the tree lit can be a challenge.
There are the usual problems with bad bulbs and burned-out fuses and there are the pesky squirrels that gnaw through branches and wires as they gather acorns.
Each year, the owner removes only the lights on the first 12 feet of the tree to make way for a summer garden and eliminate the wound wire on the trunk, which the squirrels use as a ladder.
Most years about 10 percent of the lights need replacing, costing about $2,500 each year to get the tree fully wrapped again.
An ice storm in May 2008 wiped out 8,000 lights in 10 minutes which cost $10,000 to fix.

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October 8th, 2013

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