Death from above..........

[csr0831]

No....the closest thing I got to that is a BX......not quite enough for the job at hand. We've had some wind here recently....kind of surprised it's still hanging up there. Well if it's still there Monday, it'll be down by noon. : )

 

[CliffordK]

Maybe a stick of dynamite, and you could have a nice wildlife snag.

 

[csr0831]

Tree seems to have opened up a bit...zoomed in on a bit and it looks as though the wood on the inside may be bad...rotted...something doesn't look right with it.....cut the grass under it today, but I think thats the last time I'm going under it it's removed Monday.....if it last that long.....

 

[csr0831]

Tree is down...it was hollow which is why it twisted so easily. I suspect.

 

[CliffordK]

Glad it has been brought down safely.

Now you should have enough firewood for next winter!!!!!!!!

 

[csr0831]

I've already got about three chords of hardwood and this is pine. I had them haul all but one section out with them. The thing has such a perfect hole rotted into it, I though I could slice it up in 2 in thick sections and made tables out of it with glass inserts in the center.....OK...so that will probably never happen.....it'll be good kindling. : )

 

[radrock]

I've already got about three chords of hardwood and this is pine. I had them haul all but one section out with them. The thing has such a perfect hole rotted into it, I though I could slice it up in 2 in thick sections and made tables out of it with glass inserts in the center.....OK...so that will probably never happen.....it'll be good kindling. : )

Picture frames. Glad you got it down ok

 

[k0ua]

Yep, glad you got it down safely..

James K0UA

 

[PhysAssist]

Glad that it was far enough away from your house too.

A few years ago, a friend lost an ash tree with about a 30" diameter trunk, unfortunately when it fell (actually twisted in the wind during a storm like your's did), it landed on their roof line.

Fortunately her daughter, who had the bedroom under where it landed, was not at home that night, because a 12" branch came in through the side of the house and skewered her bed through and through.

Ironically, her husband has a degree in forestry, but was so busy working as a machinist that he never saw the signs that it was dying. When they cut it off the house there was only a few inches of wood in the outer trunk.

The cavity of the trunk was big enough to stand in....

It was over a year before all the damage was repaired, and it cost twice what it should have because the house was built in the late 1800's and between updating to code, and preserving original historic details, it cost an arm and a leg.

Thomas

 

[hosspuller]

How was it taken down? Cut from a bucket truck? Pulled down? Just curious...

 

[csr0831]

He notched the front of it and then made a back cut and pulled it down with their swinger (a nice little articulated tractor....did not even damage the grass).

 

[buickanddeere]

A couple wraps of DET cord

 

[cqaigy2]

A couple wraps of DET cord

Quick, but a little noisy. :laughing:

 

[csr0831]

OK...I'm gonna show my ignorance (nothing strange there), "DET cord"?

 

[aczlan]

OK...I'm gonna show my ignorance (nothing strange there), "DET cord"?

Detonating Cord. Basically a fuse that burns very fast and can be used as a low grade explosive. See: Detonating cord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aaron Z

 

[k0ua]

OK...I'm gonna show my ignorance (nothing strange there), "DET cord"?

If you don't know what it is,, you don't need any

 

[CliffordK]

I had already suggested blowing the top off and leaving the snag for wildlife habitat. But with the amount of rot inside the trunk, the tree might have been severely compromised, and probably would not have lasted very long.

Cutting down to the ground was good.

 

[k0ua]

The Finnish army colloquialism for detonation cord is anopin pyykkinaru (mother-in-law's clothesline), as it resembles ordinary clothesline.

In Filipino, the corresponding word mitsa has come to be used in a phrase “mitsa ng buhay” which translates to "detonating cord of [one’s] life", a metaphor for something that is very likely to cause one’s death via direct jeopardization (e.g. extreme sports, versus smoking).

I though that was pretty funny.

 

[csr0831]

I suspected it was something like that.