Do you think a Christmas tree could survive a 500-mile drive on the roof of my car (average speed 70 mph) or would we arrive home with a bald tree that would make even Charlie Brown turn up his nose?
I told you it was a crazy question! ;)
LOL! Wasn't that a dead body on the roof in "Christmas Vacation"? Or was that the first one?
I always travel to my hometown for Thanksgiving and there's a great Christmas Tree farm right outside town. We always go there the day after Thanksgiving. Hot chocolate. Homemade apple cider donuts. Christmas carols. Hay bale towers and a huge chute slide for the kids to play on. Snow in the air. A real reindeer. Santa parachutes in. You can hop on the hay wagon and cut down your own tree for some ridiculously low price. They put it on your car with a smile. But I've never bought a tree there because it's 500 miles away.
Here where I live you go to some floodlit parking lot an hour away and they sell you a tree that was cut down in Oregon three months ago for $80. You have to tip the guy at least $10. You get it in the house and all the needles drop off in a week!
Just wrap it in a blanket or a tarp of some sort to deflect the wind a little and it should be fine. :)
I agree with like putting net around it and tieing it down real good....I say...go for it...it's Christmas....by the way...just curious...why are you doing this????
I would wrap it in plastic and tie it down real good and it should be fine. Good Luck and Happy Holidays!
Make sure the branches of the tree are going with the flow of air. Then cover it with a king size blanket or sheet. If it doesn't make it not much lost if it does then you are awesome!!!
It'll be fine as long as you make sure it's in a net and tied down securely.
I think that is totally awesome, fun, and do-able. What a great story!
I agree with the others. Get it netted, wrap a plastic bag around the base, wrap the tree with a blanket really well (a tarp in wind will drive you batty and cut on your gas mileage), and wet it down. And of course, put it on the top of the car base facing the front.
Cut the base extra long, so you can cut off a bunch when you get there.
They put trees on trucks to get them to their locations. :) Let us know how it goes! I would also document the whole thing and scrapbook it. Super cool. I'm kinda jealous. The tree farm you describe is like the one we went to when we lived up in MN. We can't find a place like that near us, here. :(
It should be fine if you wrap it in a sheet or blanket.
Even better if the sheet/blanket start out wet.
Hope it rains or hose it down before you start your drive home.
What all that high speed air does is dry the tree out and that's what causes the needles to drop off.
If you can keep it moist as long as you can, the tree will be in much better shape.
If you drove a van, the tree could be inside the vehicle and it would be fine since it would be out of the wind.
Another one for just a really good (maybe ask for double) wrapping with netting. If the wrap is good, I really think the trip would do nothing but make sure all the pesky needles that didn't 'shake' out come loose. Heck, for that, I might drive around on the highway for a while to 'shake' out our extra needles!LOL!!
I think it will do fine if it is wrapped well. What an AWESOME family memory you will be making.....both chopping it down and driving it home. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS!!!!!!
Totally doable. (I should mention that some people think my husband and I are totally nuts. As my mom says, you should consider the source, lol.)
Not unwrapped. I think if it was bound and wrapped and tied so it didn't catch air and snap 300 miles in, there's a good chance it will make it.
I don't think you want to do that..... As you've already stated, it would probably be pretty damaged and what if it shifts around and flies off your car? If that scene wasn't in Christmas Vacation it should've been ;-)
It sounds a little out there but if you wrapped and tied it well maybe it could work. Why not? Even if it doesn't work you would have a great story. (However, my husband and I did drive a king size mattress across town on the roof of his tiny Honda civic in grad school so consider the source here too).
why not just buy a tree closer to home?
