Gary Fowler
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2008
- Messages
- 11,998
- Location
- Bismarck Arkansas
- Tractor
- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
Today I had my B26 TLB out in the woods doing some underbrush remove and pushing up the dead limbs from our last snow storm. I was under a big oak that had several dead limbs break off and I was pushing them into a big pile along with the vines and small scrub stuff growing under the tree. Suddenly a dead limb about 3" diameter by about 10 feet long broke out of the tree and hit squarely on the canopy and slide off one side. Evidently some of the vines had wrapped up that limb and were strong enough to break it off. We had previously removed any thing within 18 feet of the ground with ladder and chain. This one was higher up and too rotting to risk putting a ladder on. There are several more in that tree and a couple of very large ones hanging out over my fence that will eventually fall on the fence if we cant figure out a way to cut them off. One is about 18" in diameter at the tree trunk and way too high for me to feel comfortable working . The old tree is on its last leg that is typical of 100+ year old oaks around here. It is way too big for me to even try with my 18" chainsaw. Its close to 5 feet in diameter and dead limbs fall without warning and without severe weather involved. It is dangerous to work under these old oak trees what with all the rotting limbs coming down.
A FOPS is required equipment when working in this forest with dead pines and dead oaks everywhere.
A FOPS is required equipment when working in this forest with dead pines and dead oaks everywhere.