So I look out the window this morning.....

[Millenium Vette]

[OddBall]

Hey, there's a tree down in your yard.


Just FYI...

[Ol Timer]

That makes it easier to climb!

[Mike Mercury]

life throws you lemons like that occasionally.

[Millenium Vette]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

life throws you lemons like that occasionally.

I am actually very fortunate. It could have been much worse. The tree fell where it did no damage. Any other direction and it would have been on the house, across the neighbor's driveway taking out power and cable/internet/phone for me, or gone into the street taking out the overhead lines with it.

[OddBall]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

life throws you lemons like that occasionally.

Pretty sure that's a pine.

[Chuck A]

very sad, indeed

[OddBall]

Are you going to use it, or just get rid of it?

[Cybercowboy]

You can tell it's dead by the way it is.

[FasterTraffic]

If a tree falls in your yard in the middle of the night, does it make a sound?

[Datawiz]

WAY easier to cut that thing up. I don't see the need for distress. Looks like you won the lottery.

[Black94lt1]

Originally Posted by datawiz

WAY easier to cut that thing up. I don't see the need for distress. Looks like you won the lottery.

And no need for a stump grinder

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by datawiz

WAY easier to cut that thing up. I don't see the need for distress. Looks like you won the lottery.

20 years ago roughly, bought a lot to build our house on. Two huge oak trees right where the house goes, so big they didn't take them with the other trees that were cut down. Two giant logs sitting on my property during the initial stages of construction. Finally I asked my contractor what was the deal with them. He said "Well, I hate to tell you but it's going to cost about $800 to have them hauled off." I was not happy to hear that. Told him to hold off for now.

Later that week I was checking on the house as was my daily ritual and a couple guys in a pickup came from a few houses down. They were doing an engineering study on this house with drainage problems, a local engineering firm logo on their company truck.

"Hey, you the property owner?"

"Yes, why you ask?"

"What are you going to do with those two oak trunks?"

"Get rid of them, hopefully."

"We can take them today."

"Oh, how much?"

"Nothing, we'll just take them off your hands."

"That works for me!"

No kidding, an hour later they show up with a semi/flatbed with a crane on it. They load those two logs up, chain them down, 10 feet+ sticking out from the back of the flatbed, and side-by-side were as wide as the trailer. Later I asked them what they did with them. They said they sold them to a local wood mill, got a couple thousand for them.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

20 years ago roughly, bought a lot to build our house on. Two huge oak trees right where the house goes, so big they didn't take them with the other trees that were cut down. Two giant logs sitting on my property during the initial stages of construction. Finally I asked my contractor what was the deal with them. He said "Well, I hate to tell you but it's going to cost about $800 to have them hauled off." I was not happy to hear that. Told him to hold off for now.

Later that week I was checking on the house as was my daily ritual and a couple guys in a pickup came from a few houses down. They were doing an engineering study on this house with drainage problems, a local engineering firm logo on their company truck.

"Hey, you the property owner?"

"Yes, why you ask?"

"What are you going to do with those two oak trunks?"

"Get rid of them, hopefully."

"We can take them today."

"Oh, how much?"

"Nothing, we'll just take them off your hands."

"That works for me!"

No kidding, an hour later they show up with a semi/flatbed with a crane on it. They load those two logs up, chain them down, 10 feet+ sticking out from the back of the flatbed, and side-by-side were as wide as the trailer. Later I asked them what they did with them. They said they sold them to a local wood mill, got a couple thousand for them.

Win win! Love a happy ending.

[StaticCling]

Originally Posted by OddBall

Pretty sure that's a pine.

No foliage on that tree, so it's gotta be something else? Ash maybe?

On second look, the surrounding leaves look a bit oak-ish?

[Millenium Vette]

Originally Posted by datawiz

WAY easier to cut that thing up. I don't see the need for distress. Looks like you won the lottery.

No distress here, just showing that life isn't always perfect. I'll make a call and the problem will be gone.

[Millenium Vette]

Originally Posted by chinaski

No foliage on that tree, so it's gotta be something else? Ash maybe?

On second look, the surrounding leaves look a bit oak-ish?

No, it's a blue spruce.

[Aerovette]

You must have gotten up early. One of your trees is still sleeping.

[OddBall]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

life throws you lemons like that occasionally.

Originally Posted by OddBall

Pretty sure that's a pine.

Originally Posted by chinaski

No foliage on that tree, so it's gotta be something else? Ash maybe?

On second look, the surrounding leaves look a bit oak-ish?

Originally Posted by Millenium Vette

No, it's a blue spruce.

Definitely not a lemon tree.

[mrvette]

Same sort of shit with a VERY tall ~100' oak in my front yard......they left the major limbs around the yard to rot, but hauled off the 3' diameter trunk in 3 sections on a flat bed using a crane to load them.....obviously.....800 bux total price to me and neighbor......stump ground out and removed a couple years later 200 bux.....

Stupid previous owners/planners/contractors for letting these trees grow to be such a hazard......