A little Fall clean up

[Barryh]

Nope. It was on TV. Maybe this old house. I searched for it but could not find anything yet.

Moss, I was just joking with you but, I do appreciate the thought.

 

[MossRoad]

Moss, I was just joking with you but, I do appreciate the thought.

Sorry, kinda dense here sometimes!!!

Hey, go to you tube and search for tree trimming. There are tons of videos.

 

[Barryh]

Sorry, kinda dense here sometimes!!!

Hey, go to you tube and search for tree trimming. There are tons of videos.

I already did do a search on the proper way to cut down a tree just to check myself. Obviously I should have done that search ( before ) I cut the tree down..

I saw the word stupidity used a lot. Doesn't make me feel to good if you know what I am saying. .

Of course it did show guys cutting down trees and taking out their neighbors decks and such. I must admit It was hard not to laugh. At least I only damaged my house and not the guys next door..

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah. A neighbor of a friend of mine decided to cut down a very short but very stout walnut tree in their alley many years ago. When it came down it pulled the power lines out of half a dozen houses, took out a few poles and smashed his garage, too.

Hey, it happens.

When my dad first built his house, he was burning leaves and caught the yard on fire. He couldn't put it out and my mom ran all the way to the end of the block to pull the fire box. The fire department came and saved the house. My mom started complaining about how far away the pull box was. The next day the fire chief came out and supervised the installation of a pull box right at the end of our driveway and made some comments to the neighbors about stupid people. She was mortified!

 

[SnowRidge]

Here's the best way to deal with those pesky trees, before you buid.

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

About a year ago, a pro was hired to take down a dead tree in Maryland. He and his crew managed to drop it on an above ground pool uphill of the house. The water took out sliding glass doors on both sides and deposited the furniture in the back lawn. Lessons in tree felling, hydraulics, and I assume, insurance.

 

[Marks481]

That is the sort of thing that would make a great video.

Maybe they could do it again, just for the chance of youtube fame?

Speaking of which, I didn't realize that we were practically neighbors, Charlie (I live in Queenstown, but work in Annapolis).

 

[Barryh]

About a year ago, a pro was hired to take down a dead tree in Maryland. He and his crew managed to drop it on an above ground pool uphill of the house. The water took out sliding glass doors on both sides and deposited the furniture in the back lawn. Lessons in tree felling, hydraulics, and I assume, insurance.

Thanks for sharing that. I feel much better now.

 

[Barryh]

Here's the best way to deal with those pesky trees, before you buid.

You bet..

 

[Barryh]

Yeah. A neighbor of a friend of mine decided to cut down a very short but very stout walnut tree in their alley many years ago. When it came down it pulled the power lines out of half a dozen houses, took out a few poles and smashed his garage, too.

Hey, it happens.

When my dad first built his house, he was burning leaves and caught the yard on fire. He couldn't put it out and my mom ran all the way to the end of the block to pull the fire box. The fire department came and saved the house. My mom started complaining about how far away the pull box was. The next day the fire chief came out and supervised the installation of a pull box right at the end of our driveway and made some comments to the neighbors about stupid people. She was mortified!

Glad your dads house was saved. Even though it was not funny, sounds like the fire chief was a little irritated.

Now you got me started on fire story's, Reminds me of around 26 years ago. A bunch of us got the brilliant idea to make bottle rocket guns and have gorilla warfare. We had this millionaire friend who was renovating this old civil war mansion sitting on 850 acres of land.

Normally we would stay there on the weekends and ride (back then) 3 wheelers. We would also have timed pistol and rifle shooting competitions. M-16's, Mini fourteens with folding stocks, AK 47''s, shot gun and various automatic 380, 45 and 9-mm pistols.

This particular weekend we decided to have a bottle rocket war get all camouflaged up and divide into two groups / teams of 6 and 6. It was mid July the first clash was in open field one guy had his stash of bottle rockets in his top shirt pocket. As he fired one off from his gun. It made a full circle and landed right back in his pocket full of bottle rockets.

They started going off and he was running around in circles his shirt on fire while he was screaming and trying to rip his shirt off.

finally we threw him to the ground rolled him and pulled it off what was left of it. Miraculously he didn't even get burned. Now that would have made a great you tube video.

The next day we went out into the woods to stalk each other when we meet up, the point man fired a bottle rocket right into a dry pile of leaves. The whole woods started going up in flames. We were about a mile away from the main house and didn't see the Verizon guy anywhere asking, can you hear me now. Guess it was a little before his time

All 12 of us quickly jumped down and used our hands boots anything we could get a hold of to dig a fire break. We barley got the fire stopped before the whole forest went up.

We had at least a 40 foot circle dug and all of our safety glasses boots shirts and gear was melted into a black sooty mess. We had a mild case of smoke inhalation. Young dumb and well you know the rest.