The family and I went to Kings Island Friday and while we were there a huge storm blew in. As we were leaving our neighbor called and said we had no power and two trees down. When we got home I found that one of the trees was a dead tree I've been wanting to take down. The other was a huge hickory that I never planned on bringing down. It was standing next to my metal "bivouac" shed and fell away from the shed coming to rest 5 feet from my stacks! (made it easy to move it to my splitting area) The only thing that happened was the roots opened the door as it fell, not a bit of damage to anything. I will try to post pictures tomorrow.
The next morning my buddy that lives down the road came down with a generator and got our chest freezer (I didn't want to lose the 3 deer inside) and fridge back on line. He and his son came back down at 5 and we worked until dark getting the tree on the ground. My girls and I finished the branches out today. The brush pile is about 20'x15'x5'.
The girls and I measured the tree, it was 105' tall with no signs of problems, solid as a rock. Sad to see the matriarch go but it's going to make some warm fires in 2014-2015.
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The next morning my buddy that lives down the road came down with a generator and got our chest freezer (I didn't want to lose the 3 deer inside) and fridge back on line. He and his son came back down at 5 and we worked until dark getting the tree on the ground. My girls and I finished the branches out today. The brush pile is about 20'x15'x5'.
The girls and I measured the tree, it was 105' tall with no signs of problems, solid as a rock. Sad to see the matriarch go but it's going to make some warm fires in 2014-2015.
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