georgel
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I don't get it. It's too big and dangerous to cut down, but you're burning out the base. Isn't the rest going to fall uncontrolled?
I don't get it. It's too big and dangerous to cut down, but you're burning out the base. Isn't the rest going to fall uncontrolled?
Nah. He’s got this.Winna, Winna, chicken dinna!! He's going to wish he'd listened to the wife....
She’s been calling the TV stations trying to get America Funniest Home Videos brought back so she can submit her winning video when “it” does happen .Winna, Winna, chicken dinna!! He's going to wish he'd listened to the wife....
More beer, it will make the police report more entertaining.
I'm still feeding it wood...
The freaking thing is still standing. Lemme post a pic... Hold on.
Ugh. We had that microburst about a month ago that took down a lot of those big old trees and several good sized pines. If you’ve driven through Goldston recently, you would have seen them. South side of town. One guy was burning the stump of a big old pine. Those roots spread.Guy had a stump in the yard that he wanted to get rid of without working too hard. He'd been burning yard debris piled around and on the stump off and on for 2 or 3 months. Before they went to the beach he had cleaned up around the stump. Wasn't hardly anything left in that area. You could barely tell there was ever a stump there.
He did, and deleted his postHe's going to wish he'd listened to the wife....
I've run so many fire calls where someone tried burning down a dead tree and its set the woods on fire (or worse). Not only that, but the breeze can pick up embers from a burning tree and start fires a quarter mile away. You're liable to burn someone's house or barn down like that.
Its expensive, but the best/safest option is to hire someone with a bucket truck to come in and drop it a piece at a time. Painful on the wallet, but you're not putting your neighbors and their kids at risk that way.
Yes sir. It's going to fall uncontrolled, but I'm not going to be standing at the base holding a chain saw when the limbs break off and fall from the tippy top...I don't get it. It's too big and dangerous to cut down, but you're burning out the base. Isn't the rest going to fall uncontrolled?
Yep. That's a dead pine, about 100 yards back on the woods. I'm going to leave it alone and let it fall on its own.That tree is definitely a widowmaker. Looks like you have another dead one in the background too.
I've run so many fire calls where someone tried burning down a dead tree and its set the woods on fire (or worse). Not only that, but the breeze can pick up embers from a burning tree and start fires a quarter mile away. You're liable to burn someone's house or barn down like that.
Its expensive, but the best/safest option is to hire someone with a bucket truck to come in and drop it a piece at a time. Painful on the wallet, but you're not putting your neighbors and their kids at risk that way.
We lost one of our 11 Giant Battery Oaks . Guy said it was over 150 years old. Got water in it...s...p...l...i...t. $3,500 to make disappear.
5 men...a million dollars wortha equipment...and 3 days.
Cut a slice outta the center and had a table made of it for The Bunk House. It broke my heart.Sad to see an old giant go. Didn't happen to have any of it milled did ya?
Cut a slice outta the center and had a table made of it for The Bunk House. It broke my heart.