Several weeks ago Jimmy took down a couple of maples in his yard. They needed to come down before a big wind took them down, and WS was glad to help. Jimmy was just going to use the wood for his fire pit, but WS told him that we wanted the wood, and we had some pine trees that needed to come down - he could have that wood for his fire pit. So, WS got wood for us and BIL for next season.
Last weekend the weather finally cooperated so Jimmy and WS could take down the huge pine in front of the dog pen.
The placing was tricky as if it fell straight down the hill, the fence and one shed would get hit. If it fell the way it leans, it would hit the deck (and maybe part of the house). If it fell back (unlikely), it would take out the dog pen. If it fell at an angle to the right, it would take out the lean-to for the wood. Way to the right was a bunch of trees they didn't want it to get hung up in.
Obviously, they got it right - Jimmy is really good at this sort of thing, plus WS used the 4-wheeler to pull it in the correct direction. Great Job guys!
I got a whole bunch of free maple from a family a couple towns over who were taking down a half rotted tree and a couple others in their front yard. Even leaving behind the rotted stuff I've got about a cord's worth once its split and stacked (right now its in a big pile next to the driveway while we wait for hte ground to finish freezing). TOTALLY worth the effort to borrow FILs truck. Nothing like free wood! We've got plenty of pine to do a GIANT bonfire with if the weather and schedules ever cooperates.....
Posted by: Ruth | December 16, 2012 at 09:54 AM
Nice job! We have a number of trees that need to be taken down. All but two of them are in places where they won't do any damage, but we have two very old evergreens off the SW corner of the house that we may have to have taken down by professionals. If we are lucky it won't be our problem.
Posted by: buffy | December 17, 2012 at 08:54 PM
We've lost our two pinons to pine tip borers. They were not large enough to be a huge problem, being on about 25 years old.
Posted by: Cop Car | December 18, 2012 at 05:04 PM
We were really glad that we took this tree down as it had heart rot and would have come down in an ice storm, snow storm, or just plain wind storm. might not have been this year, but soon - and then it would have most likely hit something that we didn't want it to hit.
Posted by: bogie | December 22, 2012 at 12:03 PM