[AT] Charlie Hill,

Tue Oct 6 05:52:22 PDT 2015

Charlie:
Something you might consider in the tree removal, all the guys that do 
the climbing are YOUNG!  I am having a terrible time coming to grips 
with the fact that I cannot do what I could only 3 years ago....    I 
can't get out of the way fast enough when things go south!!  I grew up 
doing many tasks that were considered dangerous without getting hurt for 
2 reasons.   1. I was careful and thought ahead about what could go 
wrong. ( That was drilled into me by my Dad )  2. I could jump out of 
the way quickly for 250 lbs and 6'1".
Now, I have to have something to hold onto when I get close to moving 
equip or handling livestock....

Cecil in OKla

On 10/5/2015 3:34 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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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