I was enjoying my ham and cheese sandwich at lunch yesterday when I heard a violent crash. I thought one of the bedroom closets had collapsed or something. Nope. I checked the garage - gain, no shelves had fallen, the attic had not caved in.
I looked out back to discover one of the big limbs on my slowly dying giant willow had fallen, striking the roof with the end of the branch on the way down. Parts had fallen across the privacy fence, breaking one of the boards. Parts had crushed one side of the oak hydrangea. The biggest section, about 8 inches in diameter and 12-15 foot long was in the backyard along with an explosion of lesser branches.
I spent the afternoon after work cutting it up into smaller pieces. I’m going to have to call a roofer to see if there is any damage to the roof.
That willow is probably 50 foot tall with a trunk 8’ in circumference. There are still some big branches that are going to come down, but the last estimate to cut down the tree ran over $2 grand. I suppose it is going to fall one big branch at a time.
If anyone wants some free firewood 2” to 8” in diameter, let me know.
4 comments:
Oh, Joe! You need to have that tree taken down the rest of the way *IMMEDIATELY!!* We had a very dear friend crushed on July 4th, 2022, by having a huge limb fall on him. (He had gone outside to drink his morning cup of coffee; fortunately, his wife had not yet joined him.) He died a couple of days later when he was taken off life support. There was no storm, no wind,--no nothing. It Just. Came. Down!!! (By the way, given what it has cost us to have some of our big trees removed, $2,000 sounds like a bargain!) JKBN in Ferguson
Oh that is awful
You got wood. I'll see myself out.
[Eye roll, and a giggle, at Cappy]
Big trees... I have a sprawling mulberry that was hit by lightning not long after I lost T-man. It left burn scars on every branch, from top to bottom. Yet it lives on to drop a huge limb each fall and/or spring. The first one I had help with, thankfully. The last one I was able to drag to the burn pile. Not looking forward to the next.
Fred
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