A gloat or looking for commiseration

[TellicoTurning]

Ft Louden Electric came by yesterday to clear some trees that were growing into the power lines... I have a line that crosses my property and had two trees that were in danger of getting into the lines.. one was leaning at about 20 deg directly over the line. There was a third that sat near the lines, but not quite big as the others, but I asked them to take it out as well to save a trip back in a year or two... they took all the brush, but left me the trunks..

I have to give these guys some credit... some of them have more cahones than me going up trees that lean the way this one did.. every time he set his spikes the tree bounced... it was tied off, but the stump it was near rotted through... a good storm or a little snow fall might have dropped this one right into the power lines.

Anyway, this is the pile of wood I have to move over to the shop area and get if off the hill behind the house... and it looks like rain this morning.

They also topped one of my maples, it has a forked trunk from about 4 feet up and they only topped one fork of the turnk.. it looks like crap, so I'll have to bring down that trunk... no pictures of the maple. Fortunately, it's in the clear and only about 6 or 8 inches diameter, so won't be bad for me to bring down.

Anyone in the neighborhood that wants a few pieces of cedar to turn, stop by... I have plenty.

 

[RMB]

Awesome! PG+E is great.... they're gonna cut down a eucalyptus on my bosses property pretty soon. I also just got ahold of a pepper tree from my church that's been dead for a long time... I've been eyeing all the burls on it.

 

[Gagler]

Sorry to hear about losing your trees but nice score on the wood....get that sealed up quick!

 

[Skye]

I'm not a real big cedar fan but if you can get some blanks made with a good amount of heartwood and sapwood, it may be worth turning into blanks. It's such soft wood though...