Well mother nature is at it again. After tropical storm Cristobal passed through the south a couple days ago, overnight, it took down a tree in our yard. Yep, another fucking tree. The funny thing about this tree is the idea that the day before, I was looking at this tree and at the root base and was telling myself that this tree is in danger of coming down as the dirt around the tree was starting to pull up.
Well after the winds passed over, it pulled the tree up enough to make it come down, but not fully. It fell enough to get caught in the power line coming to the pole next to the house. A retaining bracket that holds the line against the top of the pole was all that was holding the tree up as well as keeping said tree from pulling the power line free from the pole. Well since it was in a live power line I didn't want to take a chance trying to cut the branches free as there may be a chance the line might be energizing the tree. Before I can get anyone out to cut the tree up I had to move two vehicles and some miscellaneous junk out of the way. The tree was hanging over the LUV and the Mustang Chicken Coupe. I ended up moving the Scion and Tracker from the driveway along with some powered equipment and other misc shit from the path that was between the LUV and the 69 Mustang next to the Storage Trailer. My plan was to pull the Mustang up to the LUV and drag it from its spot across the driveway and along side the Storage Trailer. The LUV and the Mustang will end up being along side the Storage Trailer. The next thing was to move the Mustang Chicken Coupe. Since there was a good clear shot behind the car down the driveway I figured I would just push the car down and leave it at a spot between the car trailer and the side of the driveway, well out of the way of the area under the fallen tree. With the ole lady's help we were able to carefully move the car out of the way to its new spot. Since the car had no brakes, I had to put a tire behind the car's tire so it can roll against it every few feet to control its "descent". After moving the cars it was time to get the power company out here. After calling the power company they actually did a pretty good job of getting a couple of guys out to the house to take care of the tree. It really just took one guy with a pole chainsaw to cut the tree branches free from the power line enough that all that was remaining was the trunk leaning at a 45 degree angle but still free from the power line. At least this means I can safely get to work cutting the tree up. With the help of the battery chainsaws and the pruning clippers I managed to cut the branches up into smaller sections so they can be stacked up by the burn can so they can dry out. Most of the cutting was with the clippers but the larger shit needed the saws, no biggie. Once I got to the trunk I was able to get a third of the trunk cut down, cutting it into foot long sections, before I ran out of battery power. The trunk being super green wood, took more power to cut through than dried wood. Plus I wanted to have the wood cut where all I have to do is drop each piece on the log splitter to finish the job. When I knew I was getting close to the end of charge on the larger saw, I went ahead and started cutting through the trunk at the root base so I can at least say the trunk is on the ground to finish the cutting up. I was able to cut 80% of the way through before the saw died but was at least able to finish cutting with the smaller saw. With the saw work done it was time to move all the branch shit to the burn pile staging area, by the burn can. This took many trips as the gap between where the tree fell and the burn area had me navigating a gauntlet between two vehicles and either the garden or the porch depending on which side I took. Eventually I had all the branch pieces stacked into a nice large pile next to the burn can. Now we play the waiting game. Once the branches dry out good I can fire the pile to dispose of this menacing tree once and for all!
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