I came back from an install to find this laying on my shop roof. This is the view from the back of the shop. The tree snapped off about 14 feet up. We still have to get it off the building but the initial inspection looks like the only damage to the building is a crushed ridge vent. If I had been in the shop when it fell I'd probably still be climbing back into my skin.
[ May 29, 2012, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: Dave Sherby ]
Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
Very lucky, glad no real damage.
Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on :
I too had wind damage. I had 2 large, truck sized parts of an old redbud come down last Thursday night from a storm that came thru. The next morning, as I was driving out my long driveway, I could see the branches blocking the next door neighbor's driveway. They have a circle drive, so I did not think too much about it.
OK. I go do my job for the day and come back by 4. I drive by again and realize it is my tree that caused it. I pull into my driveway, walk over and see I need to handle moving the two limbs, but they are too heavy to move by pulling them over to my yard, plus my place is uphill. I walk back over to get my chain saw.
I get it down, check the oil and gas and try cranking on it five times. Voila! It amazingly, started! I walk back over to begin chopping it up......but suddenly the limbs are gone. Where did they go? No city truck, no leaves on the street, I heard no chipper, no one is home next door. I look all over, but someone stopped by during the five minutes I went to get the chain saw and STOLE my limbs!
I rub my eyes and think how utterly weird. Walk back and put up the saw. I come inside the house and think to myself how ODD.
Then I have to go to the grocery store an hour later. I drive past the neighbor's house and there on the side yard, beside a huge bush are my two limbs. They reappeared! No, I just did not see them over there before...duh. OK. I get back and go chop them up and rake the grassy area to remove the sticks and fallen leaves. The neighbors are still gone. Turns out they left for the weekend and they dragged the limbs over to their side yard, coincidentally as I was back here getting my saw started. What a coincidence.
They did get home on Monday night and called me. Did I chop up those limbs for them? (They think it was their tree). I say what limbs and we all laughed.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
We've been under the thread of some major damage from a very large tree in back of my shop for a few years and finally got the opportunity to trade some work and have it taken down. None too soon it appears. The center rings were beginning to turn black and showing signs that it was dying. The wind did shift a bit as it was being felled and it didn't quite go in the planned direction...the larger limbs just missing the shop by a few feet. PHEW!!
I'd planted this tree when Gump was born and he's seen it out there all of his life. I've taken a cross section from the trunk and am gonna make something out of it for him as a keepsake. A 4 foot wide keepsake...
Rapid
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
We had severe storms two days ago without major damage other than a few small limbs. A few hours later under calm and sunny skies, as I visited with my wife, a friend, and the grandkids in the front yard, we heard a "Crack!" and watched a large limb fall off the next door neighbor's tree and land on the fence and shrubbery between houses. It just missed her roof and electric lines. The neighbor is elderly and in poor health so yesterday morning I cut it up with a chain saw and hauled it to the curb where it got picked up by the solid waste people.
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
Some cool stories, and Preston that's funny. Funnier than the other day when I had just finished painting a yellow arrow on a driveway. No cars for half hour or 45 minutes, so I figure, hey, no sense standing here blocking cars waiting for paint to dry. Might as well jump in the truck which is 20 feet away, spin it around to the other side of the arrow. That way I can sit in the truck, make a few sketches. No sooner had I closed the door, than Vrooom, a pickup drives right through the wet arrow. Not only did it make black tread marks across the arrow, but, gdik,gdik, gdik, it left a series of yellow tread marks going into the garage. Next time bring cones. Now, in reply to the original post, the worst collision I ever heard in a building was...a goose. I think. Not entirely sure, but there I was inside my metal shop, and KA-BLAMMM!!! Sounded like a bomb, for real. The dog, which was a few feet away, started running in circles, wouldn't stop till I caught him. Went outside, and all I saw was a dazed goose walking around on the concrete. The goose recovered and went on his way.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I seem to have bad luck with trees, or maybe I just used up my luck. A big maple in my back yard dropped a huge branch which narrowly missed the back porch and kitchen. Maybe I used up my luck on that one because the next one didn't miss the front porch a few years ago. This one provided quite a bit of firewood.
Here's the base of the tree
And now my shop gets hit. When I move to Texas, I'll be happy that trees don't get this big there.
[ June 02, 2012, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: Dave Sherby ]
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
Last time I had wind damage. the shingles and tar paper blew off my shop and hit and hurt my motorhome and two of my trucks, got 36,000 from insurance company and moved to Oregon
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Saturday, as I headed out the door, I saw a large limb had broken off a tree in the front yard. It was even bigger than what came off the neighbor's tree. When I got back home, I cut it up and removed the rest of it from the tree. Fortunately, neither limb hit anything other than the ground. Once I got the balance of the limb out of the tree, I could see another major one that looks very iffy. It's pretty high up and over the electrical line. I think I'll call in a pro for that. When I was younger, climbing trees was recreation. Now, it looks like a quick ticket to ER.
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