wkpoor
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Well after the Ohio Hurricane went through Sunday there is plenty of winter fuel available. Got some myself today. Anyone else score some storm downed trees?
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iCreek
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We had a winter ice storm last winter, same thing, if a person was willing to do a little work, you could get all the 'Free' wood you would want. It usually meant driving around the neighborhoods, spotting a downed tree, knocking on their door and firing up the saw. Good Luck and Be Safe !!!
I lost 5 trees here in southern Ohio. Nothing close to the house and no real damage. I was very lucky compared to most of the folks in my area. Firewood will be plentiful for a while for sure.
We finally got power back tonight after 56 hours. I just heard there are still close to 500,000 still without power in the area.
We finally got power back tonight after 56 hours. I just heard there are still close to 500,000 still without power in the area.
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Shucks, I'm still cutting them at dump sites where people dropped off their trees that were blown down by the Nebraska hurricane in June. Sounds like the same type of storm--steady winds of 110 mph with little, if any, rotation.
Huge trees were uprooted that had lived for a hundred years or more. Some big trees took the roads and sidewalks with them as if they were plucked from the ground. Power was out at 130,000 locations for up to a week. It was a real mess that took over a month to clean up. Some large weakened branches are still falling.
I guess your hurricane was an Ike spinoff, but no one knows what caused the June 25 hurricane in southeast Nebraska except freak weather conditions. Buildings that had stood for over a century were flattened to the ground. Entire cornfields were destroyed as if they had been stepped on by a giant foot. Hail stones blew sideways like a machine gun, shattering windows and destroying siding. I personally had never seen anything like it.
coppermouse
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Yea it's a mess, 400,000 still with out power since Sunday. You can find wood everywhere.
woodbooga
cords of mystic memory
Nabbed about a 1/2 cord of red maple blown over in a tornado that ripped a 50-mile swath of destruction at the end of July. There was more to be had but I didn't want to get in the way of the cleanup crews. Also, I didn't ask permission of anyone who'd had anykind of house damage - didn't want to be the woodaholic version of an ambulance chaser.
thombat4
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Just got a call back from a lady here in Cleveland's craigslist. Said there's plenty wood on her property so bring axes an' saws!
I was entertaining the thought of buying some firewood...glad that's as far as it went.
I was entertaining the thought of buying some firewood...glad that's as far as it went.
Now I know this is going to be hard to believe, but based on the June storm destruction in Nebraska, it appears there is going to be enough tree biomass in Ohio that if picked up and dropped in OSU stadium in Columbus, it would fill the stadium to the brim at least a half dozen times.
rx7145
ArboristSite Guru
The tree service that drops off wood at my place just droped off two loads. Said in one day he got 17 calls for work. He has a smaller operation so that is a lot for him. Also had two trees blow over at my mom's place.
Lots of wood here
Lots of wood here
Joshlaugh
ArboristSite Operative
I just got power back today at 1pm, we lost it Sunday afternoon. I am getting all the wood I want from my village. I picked up 4 truck loads of sugar maple from a neighbor this afternoon. The village arborist will deliver wood to my driveway for no charge for as long as I want them to! Not sure how much to take as I have 8 cords in my tiny yard as is(almost 2 years worth).
Work wise: I have never cut down and cleared as many trees as I did on Monday and Tuesday. Not sure how many trees I ended up cutting down but it took 2 of use 1 1/2 days to clear a 1.5 mile trail at the park I work at.
Work wise: I have never cut down and cleared as many trees as I did on Monday and Tuesday. Not sure how many trees I ended up cutting down but it took 2 of use 1 1/2 days to clear a 1.5 mile trail at the park I work at.
hanniedog
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I talked to my mother who lives in rural Warren county in southern Ohio. Said not expecting electric until the weekend been off since 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Also said that people have been giving repair guys a hard time. Yelling at them, spitting and the like. Those guys have a tough enough job to do without that kind of B.S..
thombat4
ArboristSite Guru
Sheesh!! Like it's really their fault! Wonder what they'd do if they were told they had to evacuate their homes?!?! I heard our true nature comes out during stressful or troubling times. We can all learn something from the Amish lifestyle. The loss of power has very little to no impact on them I'm sure.
weloveburning
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Shucks, I'm still cutting them at dump sites where people dropped off their trees that were blown down by the Nebraska hurricane in June. Sounds like the same type of storm--steady winds of 110 mph with little, if any, rotation.
Huge trees were uprooted that had lived for a hundred years or more. Some big trees took the roads and sidewalks with them as if they were plucked from the ground. Power was out at 130,000 locations for up to a week. It was a real mess that took over a month to clean up. Some large weakened branches are still falling.
I guess your hurricane was an Ike spinoff, but no one knows what caused the June 25 hurricane in southeast Nebraska except freak weather conditions. Buildings that had stood for over a century were flattened to the ground. Entire cornfields were destroyed as if they had been stepped on by a giant foot. Hail stones blew sideways like a machine gun, shattering windows and destroying siding. I personally had never seen anything like it.
My son was working on the new grain facility build in waterloo about 85ft in the air. Had I not called him, when it hit us (Fremont), more than likely we would have been burying him, and several of his co workers. That was one scary day, to say the least.
When the storm was over, he emerged from the cement shelter that they took cover in, they found sheets of metal lodged in cars and the surrounding trees. I drove into Omaha the next day to see an old college roommate, and couldn't believe my eyes. Every field between Fremont and Omaha, completely flattened. Pivots twisted.
We have two cottonwoods at the end lot on our lake that are down, but no way to really get to them, since the only access is through the beach, and any vehicle with any weight will sink to the axles. I have a feeling those trees are going to be there for quite a while.
I surveyed that damage between Valley and Fremont, NE. I never saw such crop damage in my whole life, in addition to the old barns that were blown down, some of which had been there for over 100 years.My son was working on the new grain facility build in waterloo about 85ft in the air. Had I not called him, when it hit us (Fremont), more than likely we would have been burying him, and several of his co workers. That was one scary day, to say the least.
When the storm was over, he emerged from the cement shelter that they took cover in, they found sheets of metal lodged in cars and the surrounding trees. I drove into Omaha the next day to see an old college roommate, and couldn't believe my eyes. Every field between Fremont and Omaha, completely flattened. Pivots twisted.
We have two cottonwoods at the end lot on our lake that are down, but no way to really get to them, since the only access is through the beach, and any vehicle with any weight will sink to the axles. I have a feeling those trees are going to be there for quite a while.
Here's part of a 120 year-old rare Gingko tree, over 7' across, that lost it's first branch near 42nd and Chicago in Omaha. The big round on my truck is the second largest billet that I cut from that branch. The largest one was so big that they decided to leave it there as a reminder:
No one knows how that tree survived. Mammoth oaks and maples went down right next to it, ripping the sidewalks right out of the ground. It appears that the Ohio hurricane spawned by Ike is right there with this storm in intensity.
weloveburning
ArboristSite Lurker
Wow, that thing must be huge! :jawdrop:
Yeah, the clean up is still going on at woodcliff as well.
We lucked out, no real damage, except the free standing swing that was catapulted into the lake. But we are pretty sheltered from cross winds like that.
I won't forget that day for a long time. I've never seen a sky so black, and been so scared, not so much for myself, but my son.
Yeah, the clean up is still going on at woodcliff as well.
We lucked out, no real damage, except the free standing swing that was catapulted into the lake. But we are pretty sheltered from cross winds like that.
I won't forget that day for a long time. I've never seen a sky so black, and been so scared, not so much for myself, but my son.
bunch of p--sy's the ice storm in quebec in 1998 left 10's of thousands without power, some for a month, and the weather got to 30 below, so a few days in ohio at 60 above shouldn't be crying about should they
SW Ohio
I've been slowly working on an aged mighty white oak that fell due to it being hollow at the base of the trunk. See attached. We've been working on the branches and will hopefully lower the main trunk Saturday. Seems there is a full fledged honey bee hive about 10ft up the main trunk as well. The bee keeper guys need to cut out the main trunk hive, and hopefully keep it intact over winter so as to relocate the bees in the spring.
I'm going to be keeping the 10" or greater straight bits for lumber. There's a guy hereabouts who does band saw lumber milling on site.
I've been slowly working on an aged mighty white oak that fell due to it being hollow at the base of the trunk. See attached. We've been working on the branches and will hopefully lower the main trunk Saturday. Seems there is a full fledged honey bee hive about 10ft up the main trunk as well. The bee keeper guys need to cut out the main trunk hive, and hopefully keep it intact over winter so as to relocate the bees in the spring.
I'm going to be keeping the 10" or greater straight bits for lumber. There's a guy hereabouts who does band saw lumber milling on site.
A little further south in Clermont County, some of the crews are going out with police escorts because of the harassment.
Woodfarmer, correct. It has been ubelieveably fabulous weather since the great wind. No need for A/C, no need for heat.... But if you don't have any power at all for a week, it gets old.
Our power is still off as of today. That's the longest I've ever gone without power in my short life (i suppose). On Sunday, we had a generator (2500W) kingcraft from Aldi. I've used it for minor power issues, or for doing a parade float in Gallipolis OHIO for their 4th of July Parade, powering up a keyboard I play on the float. But I digress.
This time, we needed it for the refrigs/freezers ... (we have 3). And at 10:30 pm Sunday of the great windy event, kablam! and no power.
On Monday, when I determined that the shaft had broke, Alton Industries, the maker of the original unit were kind enough to knock $90 off a 4000W portable unit and ship it immediately via UPS Ground. (The original one was out of warranty).
Then ... meanwhile, my wife gets engaged finally ... and by the end of the
2nd day, we end up with a new 6000w unit and she has a 17.5 Kw unit on order from Direct Power in Bolingbrook IL.
The 6000 is immediately pressed into service, and we have all refrig/freezers and the computer up and running (with a few lights).
On Wed, the big boy arrives but since the 6000 is working ok, I don't want to incur the larger fuel consumption of the 33 HP engine and leave the 6000 running.
On Thursday, I discovered that the entire world of electrical outlets near Dayton OH have nary a one L14-30 PLUG (that the generator requires for access to the 240v current). Finally Grainer comes thru with a $44.00 plug (!!!@#!) and so by the end of Thursday, we have the water heater back on line, hardwired by bypassing its circuit breaker (its still protected via the generator 30 amp breaker).
Depending on my time, I'll either install the transfer switch/backup circuit panel for the big gen. or revert to utility power, which ever happens first.
Meanwhile, I still work on the oak in the neighbor's yard.
This has been a one of a kind experience, to be sure.
I didn't even go to the RED's game last night ... I had tickets, to go watch 3 female vocalist friends sing my own trio arrangement of the national anthem ... but I really didn't want to get side tracked from working on the matters at hand...
Our power is still off as of today. That's the longest I've ever gone without power in my short life (i suppose). On Sunday, we had a generator (2500W) kingcraft from Aldi. I've used it for minor power issues, or for doing a parade float in Gallipolis OHIO for their 4th of July Parade, powering up a keyboard I play on the float. But I digress.
This time, we needed it for the refrigs/freezers ... (we have 3). And at 10:30 pm Sunday of the great windy event, kablam! and no power.
On Monday, when I determined that the shaft had broke, Alton Industries, the maker of the original unit were kind enough to knock $90 off a 4000W portable unit and ship it immediately via UPS Ground. (The original one was out of warranty).
Then ... meanwhile, my wife gets engaged finally ... and by the end of the
2nd day, we end up with a new 6000w unit and she has a 17.5 Kw unit on order from Direct Power in Bolingbrook IL.
The 6000 is immediately pressed into service, and we have all refrig/freezers and the computer up and running (with a few lights).
On Wed, the big boy arrives but since the 6000 is working ok, I don't want to incur the larger fuel consumption of the 33 HP engine and leave the 6000 running.
On Thursday, I discovered that the entire world of electrical outlets near Dayton OH have nary a one L14-30 PLUG (that the generator requires for access to the 240v current). Finally Grainer comes thru with a $44.00 plug (!!!@#!) and so by the end of Thursday, we have the water heater back on line, hardwired by bypassing its circuit breaker (its still protected via the generator 30 amp breaker).
Depending on my time, I'll either install the transfer switch/backup circuit panel for the big gen. or revert to utility power, which ever happens first.
Meanwhile, I still work on the oak in the neighbor's yard.
This has been a one of a kind experience, to be sure.
I didn't even go to the RED's game last night ... I had tickets, to go watch 3 female vocalist friends sing my own trio arrangement of the national anthem ... but I really didn't want to get side tracked from working on the matters at hand...
