clayman
ArboristSite Operative
So I'm sitting in my house late wednesday afternoon, enjoying the rain that started tuesday night (we really needed it), and the phone rings. It's my neighbor. She tells me I have had a tree fall across the county road and it's a big one. She says you are going to have some work there. :censored:
I knew the tree she was talking about. It's a big dead pine that had a bad lean toward the road. all the limbs were on one side; the road side. I had spent some time trying to figure if I could make it fall some way other than the way it was determined to go. I wasn't sure I could, but Nature made the decision for me. Thank God it didn't fall and hit a car.
I got another neighbor, who owed me a favor, to bring his tractor over. We cut out the section that was blocking the road and he pulled it into my field. I cleared out the road of debris and went home about dark.
I've spent most of today cleaning up and burning limbs. I still have most of the top in my neighbors field across the road. Tomorrow I'll have to tackle getting that out and fix his fence, then I'll cut up the trunk. It'll be a lot of wood but nobody wants pine for fire wood, even though it's pretty well seasoned out all ready. I figure that pine had to be near 70 ft. tall
I'm glad I've got the 346XP to saw it up with.
JTB
I knew the tree she was talking about. It's a big dead pine that had a bad lean toward the road. all the limbs were on one side; the road side. I had spent some time trying to figure if I could make it fall some way other than the way it was determined to go. I wasn't sure I could, but Nature made the decision for me. Thank God it didn't fall and hit a car.
I got another neighbor, who owed me a favor, to bring his tractor over. We cut out the section that was blocking the road and he pulled it into my field. I cleared out the road of debris and went home about dark.
I've spent most of today cleaning up and burning limbs. I still have most of the top in my neighbors field across the road. Tomorrow I'll have to tackle getting that out and fix his fence, then I'll cut up the trunk. It'll be a lot of wood but nobody wants pine for fire wood, even though it's pretty well seasoned out all ready. I figure that pine had to be near 70 ft. tall
I'm glad I've got the 346XP to saw it up with.
JTB