no power.
Working from phone. Storm ripped a >45 yr old elm out of the ground by its roots in our backyard. Healthy tree with apparently insufficient roots. We’re OK and the electronic less night was peaceful and pleasant. Had the guy across the street turned off his bloody generator we’d have been in fat city.
Update: the tree in question
the picture embiggenates. For scale, the top of the roots sticking out of the ground are about 12 feet in the air.
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You actually had a Elm? Haven’t seen a live one here in the U.P. for years.
Dutch Elm disease seems to have got them all.
Hard to split, good burning wood that left little ash.
When cut into boards the tough, stringy grain made good low-boy decks.
yeah, we have lots of them around here, but they’re just pisselms. Not pretty trees, not majestic, don’t burn well or smell good. Mostly just used for lumber for truck decks and crap like that. I’ll cut the smaller stuff up for some firewood and leave the bigger stuff out by the street.
Any fish in the river in the back yard? You could have a pretty good place to ride out the apocalypse there.
Pisselms are a real pita if you want to get rid of them. Since yours was close to water the roots did not go far but I have seen their roots go several hundred yards to reach water. Anyplace the root breaches the ground you get another sprout.
We had to clean some out to allow farming over a fence row and it took most of the summer to grub all those trees out.
Ah, to be young again.
it’s actually a pond. About 60 years ago one of the neighbors got his hands on a dozer and dug a big rectangular pond with a rectangular island that just about fills it, so it looks like everyone has a river in the back yard. it looks like this
You have a moat!
Well, sorta. Except I’m outside it
Have to wonder what kind of plan the neighbor had fermenting in his skull for that one. I’ve see ponds with islands, but not many to that scale.
Not the sharpest pencil in the box, that boy.
That cell just missed us in Cirith Ungol ( w of Mordor on the Lake). W apologies to JRR….
I’ll bring the 20″ over and we can have it broken up in no time flat.
Might could use the truck to pull pieces up the hill to make it easier to cut up….
let me know when.
yep, will do. Since it’s not in anyone’s way it’s not any kind of emergency. I figure we’ll have a hacking and stacking party this summer. Grill up some steaks and you can wear your special aerated jeans.
Why do idjits have to run their noisy-ass generators all night (and day). Run the fridge, freezer, and battery chargers for a couple hours and shut the noisy thing off. Twice a day should do it. There’s no need, short of medical necessity, to keep the generator going constantly. That infernal noise was everywhere for two weeks following Sandy. Buy a lantern, light some candles, put on a sweater, add blankets. Turn the danged thing off at night!
Sorry, pet peeve.
Still haven’t split up all the Sandy wood. In fact I just finished splitting the Irene wood a couplethree months ago.
yeah, that’s my feeling about it, esp. with a 65 degree evening