[AT] Charlie Hill,

[Mike]

Charlie, if you're handy with a chainsaw, hire an excavator. I had a guy 
digging a pond for me with a good size excavator. I had a 100 year old 
dead Ash tree that was too dangerous to cut. As he was tracking back to 
where the pond was I asked him if he thought his machine could take that 
down for me. He just grinned and said, "where do you want it?" He raised 
his bucket up and pulled the top off away from any of our buildings, 
they just shoved the whole thing over, done in about 5 minutes or less. 
The only thing is you will be left with a big hole where the root ball 
was. But heck, $100 worth of top soil and that's no longer a problem. A 
lot cheaper that $2K.

Mike M


On 10/4/2015 8:45 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> I have a huge pine tree in front of my house.  It's very healthy but for
> some
> reason it has been progressively leaning toward the house for several years
> now.  The way it is situated it can not be safely cut and thrown.  It will
> have
> to come down in blocks from the top down.  I figure it will cost a couple of
> grand minimum to get it down.  It's starting to worry me. If it gives loose
> and falls all at once it will cut the house in half.    I think there is
> just a
> slim chance that it can be felled in one piece but I'll need something like
> a
> winch truck or a large excavator to makes sure if falls the right way.
> Time will tell.  If it fell right now, given where I am sitting in the
> house,
> you wouldn't likely hear from me any time soon if at all.  LOL.
> I don't think it will go all at once unless we get a very bad hurricane.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 3:56 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Charlie Hill,
>
> Maybe just a bit less on the other side of the river Spencer but much
> the same. One thing happening here is with the steady wind and the
> saturated ground from the last couple weeks events some trees are
> falling. Nothing on me or mine other than a few medium to small limbs.
> However my neighbor down on the creek says he has quite a few on the
> ground.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> On 10/4/2015 8:54 AM, ATIS wrote:
>> We only got 2.4" in this most recent event, but we have had rain a bunch
>> of consecutive  days, and that has totaled nearly 6" and contributed to
>> the flooding. I overheard the local weather guy say that yesterday broke a
>> record of 10 consecutive days  of rain in Greensboro nc - about 30 miles
>> east of here.  We had about 6/100 this morning so that makes 11 days.
>>
>> 48 degrees yesterday morning and high winds so it was cold rain as well.
>>
>> www.rdfarms.com/weather
>>
>> Spencer Yost
>
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