jrider
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This tree came down today. It's on a blueberry and cranberry farm my brother works on 5 minutes from home. The owner has given me access to probably 60 cords of easy wood over the last 5-6 years. Most of that has been easy and some of it was delivered in log length all for free. I've never had to move a stick of brush while cutting wood on his property. This oak tree though concerns me. The base was rotted and burned out. We talked about taking it down last week but decided the safest thing to do was let it come down on its own and today was that day. To try and give some scale, the spot where the trunk split goes horizontal is about 15 feet in the air. The tree is still up in the air so much due to the heavy thick branches on the bottom side. I have cut trees like this before but it sure adds a pucker factor I'm not exactly looking forward to. Diameter at the base ranged from about 5-8 feet. The truck to the right is still standing but is also rotted and burned out. We will try to just push it over with the excavator.