[AT] Charlie Hill,

[charlie hill]

Nice tree Richard.  I know you hated to loose it but at least
you have some wood to remember it by.

This tree is solid.  The problem is that it's about half way between
the house and the bank of the river.  There is a "cliff" for lack of
a better term about 20 feet high that drops off almost straight into
the river.  I believe that the trees proximity to that "cliff" is causing
the tap root and feeder roots to give way on the side toward the river
and lean toward the house.  The tree was straight up as an arrow
when we moved here 30 some years ago.  Now it is leaning significantly
and the top of the tree is curved as it attempts to look straight up to the
sky.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Fink Sr
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 10:19 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Charlie Hill,

Charlie i know what you are saying about the big tree. I had a white oak
about 90-100 feet high and at one time had a big limb or something cut
off one side and it was rotting there, we were afraid it was going to
come down and take out the main power and phone lines.Had a logger come
in with a fair size skidder to  take it down put the cable up as high as
we could notch  it and done the other cut would not come over. Had to
get a large excavator to come QUICK and it was a big push for the two to
get it over. There were limbs on side as big as a lot of trees and out
20 feet or so. But got it down and it was solid all the way down. We got
2- 8 ft saw logs off bottom and had them 1/4 sawed some great looking
wood from it.The rings i could count came to 150.
R Fink
PA

On 10/4/2015 11:56 PM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> I have taken down some reasonably large oak trees, basically with a 3 ton 
> come along. Get a ladder and hook on the tree up reasonably high - 12 foot 
> or higher.  You need some other tree or fixed object to tie too. After you 
> have a little tension on the tree, dig down and cut the roots around the 
> base of the tree. Then pull, pull, pull. It is work, but can take down a 
> tree.
>
> Good luck
>
> Dennis
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 8:06 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
>> 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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