A little Fall clean up

[Barryh]

I love it here on the mountain.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Oh that sucks!!!!... From your post I can assume no one was injured.. That is great news if so.

as for the house - OUCH. We just had a pipe break in our LA home that ended in 150K worth of damage due to our insurance company not responding promptly.

But they took care of us in the long run.

So what sort of ugprade are you going to do? Skylight?

 

[SnowRidge]

Ouch! Hope nobody was hurt and you have good insurance.

 

[Barryh]

Oh that sucks!!!!... From your post I can assume no one was injured.. That is great news if so.

as for the house - OUCH. We just had a pipe break in our LA home that ended in 150K worth of damage due to our insurance company not responding promptly.

But they took care of us in the long run.

So what sort of ugprade are you going to do? Skylight?

Sucks and then some. The good news is no one was hurt. The bad news is I cut the tree. A perfect V-cut had three guys pulling on a new 4,000 lb tes rope. Carpenter ant infestation had hollowed out around 30 Feet and right at the back side of the cut.

Just before I had finished it. I heard a loud snap and the tree dropped about 1 inch and started back the other direction. State Farm is taking good care of us around 30,000 in damage will get almost a new roof out of the deal. We needed it replaced in about two years anyway. So the neighbors get lots of expensive oak fire wood.

 

[Barryh]

Ouch! Hope nobody was hurt and you have good insurance.

Yep, State Farm is alright even put us in an very expensive landsdowns property for two months all paid for and furnished as they will move our upstairs furniture out and put it in storage while the contractors do repairs.

Gonna camp out down stairs on the weekends. To much in the way of leaves to keep up with around here this time of year.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Sucks and then some. The good news is no one was hurt. The bad news is I cut the tree. A perfect V-cut had three guys pulling on a new 4,000 lb tes rope. Carpenter ant infestation had hollowed out around 30 Feet and right at the back side of the cut.

Just before I had finished it. I heard a loud snap and the tree dropped about 1 inch and started back the other direction. State Farm is taking good care of us around 30,000 in damage will get almost a new roof out of the deal. We needed it replaced in about two years anyway. So the neighbors get lots of expensive oak fire wood.

Our insurance broker said the best thing. "We insure stupidity". While it sounds like that is not your case, it made me laugh as we were in a deep discussion about how people do things they probably should not.

Ultimately there was no way for you to know the tree was hollow, and secondly no one got hurt on the fall back. All the way around a good thing I think. And you do get a new roof and at least some nice remodeling.

 

[Barryh]

Our insurance broker said the best thing. "We insure stupidity". While it sounds like that is not your case, it made me laugh as we were in a deep discussion about how people do things they probably should not.

Ultimately there was no way for you to know the tree was hollow, and secondly no one got hurt on the fall back. All the way around a good thing I think. And you do get a new roof and at least some nice remodeling.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Marrying my first wife now X, that was stupidly.

I did have a wedge driven into the back side, three guys pulling on a rope tied up high and the tree was straight not leaning twords the house so, this was more a case of Murphys law.

Although, I may now have to put my superman shirt on E-Bay and next time call a good tree service

 

[BobRip]

Barry, in retrospect is there anything that you could have done differently to prevent this? I am sure many of us have just avoided this by dumb luck.

 

[EddieWalker]

Barry,

I almost did the same thing. I had cut 6 or seve trees without any problems, but the last one suprised me. It started to fall the right way, but then twisted on me and spun all the way around to the oposite direction. It was all in slow motion, and all I could do was watch it happen. Then I got lucky as the tree caught a branch of a tree that I had kept. If that branch hadn't been there, it would have done some damage to the house.

Sorry to see your pics, but glad nobody got hurt and your insurance is taking care of you.

Eddie

 

[LBrown59]

Built the house farther from the tree

Barry, in retrospect is there anything that you could have done differently to prevent this? .

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Removed the tree before building the house.

 

[Barryh]

Barry, in retrospect is there anything that you could have done differently to prevent this? I am sure many of us have just avoided this by dumb luck.

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thning? The only thing that might have changed the outcome from my point of view, was maybe a electric hand winch putting around 2,000 pounds of pull in the intended direction, with a slightly shorter V-cut in play to avoid the hollowed out inside.

The other would be let a tree service with the proper equipment handle the responsibility, including someone that could climb to the top and take off about 20 foot or so. These trees around here are to tall for a do it yourself kind of guy. I was trying to save a little coin ended up paying about the same for the deductible. I have another one thats dead about 9 foot from this one. Guess I get to use some of the hindsight after all. Thanks Bob for the encouraging words.

 

[Barryh]

Barry,

I almost did the same thing. I had cut 6 or seve trees without any problems, but the last one suprised me. It started to fall the right way, but then twisted on me and spun all the way around to the oposite direction. It was all in slow motion, and all I could do was watch it happen. Then I got lucky as the tree caught a branch of a tree that I had kept. If that branch hadn't been there, it would have done some damage to the house.

Sorry to see your pics, but glad nobody got hurt and your insurance is taking care of you.

Eddie

Thanks Eddie for the support, the structural engineer who inspected the damage to the house said, he did the same thing but was lucky it just missed the house and took out his power lines. He tried to cover it up and make it look like an accident. Like you said, no one was hurt and that's the most important thing to me. So I consider myself very lucky the house will be better than new . Can't take back an injury or worse. I made the wife and dogs stay outside with me.

 

[Barryh]

Built the house farther from the tree.
Removed the tree before building the house.

Very helpful observation Thank-you.

 

[LBrown59]

Very helpful observation Thank-you.

Effective too.

 

[Barryh]

OK Mr. Brown, I''ll be sure and pass that on to the original owner that had the house built 13 years ago, not that he would care at this point. Now lets get off of here and let these good people have their forum back for PT business.

 

[SnowRidge]

OK Mr. Brown, I''ll be sure and pass that on to the original owner that had the house built 13 years ago, not that he would care at this point. Now lets get off of here and let these good people have their forum back for PT business.

Barry, I have found this thread, and your photos in particular, to be most informative and quite helpful. We are about to build a new house. My wife and I have been discussing just how close to the tree line we should build. I prefer not too close. Her preference was close.

Thanks, I owe you.

 

[woodlandfarms]

OK Mr. Brown, I''ll be sure and pass that on to the original owner that had the house built 13 years ago, not that he would care at this point. Now lets get off of here and let these good people have their forum back for PT business.

But it is PT business. The tree was hauled away via pt and was not crushed via tree. also PT my aid in home improvement / restoration.

 

[Barryh]

Barry, I have found this thread, and your photos in particular, to be most informative and quite helpful. We are about to build a new house. My wife and I have been discussing just how close to the tree line we should build. I prefer not too close. Her preference was close.

Thanks, I owe you.

Hey glad I could help Defiantly something to think about. What you can't see from the pictures there is another 50 ft of tree in the back, so it had a lot of momentum before it hit the house.

Another tree had hit a house around the corner a few weeks before and cut it in two all of the way down to the floor. Everyone was amazed our house took the hit didn't even break the window under the impact area. It did Pop out a lot of nails and drywall.

We had 3 truss's snapped in the kitchen area and damage to the master bedroom bathroom ceiling. The top came over the other side in front of the house and parts of it hit my truck and landed in the front yard near the pond.

Actually if the tree had been closer to the house I think there would have been less damage. A lot of these red and white Oaks around here have large black carpenter ant damage.

 

[Barryh]

But it is PT business. The tree was hauled away via pt and was not crushed via tree. also PT my aid in home improvement / restoration.

The PT-180 did do a lot of the work along with my BX removing and hauling wood.

My neighbor is talking about buying the other six acres in back of us and if he does, both of these little machines with the big hearts will have a lot of work to do. A few old houses that he wants to tear down and a lot of crap laying around from the present owner back there in the woods. I may buy another acre nyself is the timing is right.

 

[LBrown59]

Barry, I have found this thread, and your photos in particular, to be most informative and quite helpful. We are about to build a new house. My wife and I have been discussing just how close to the tree line we should build. I prefer not too close. Her preference was close.

Thanks, I owe you.

I have a new rule since i had a small pine tree blow into the side of the house an my mil had a tree fall on top of her house.
Building can be no closer to a tree than the hight of the tree.