Barryh
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- Former owner of a P T -180 / Kubota BX-1500 .. A Craftsman Yard Tractor / John Deere 140 H-1 / Cub Cadet 108. And now ( Little Red ) a Power Trac 1425
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.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?
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.Ouch! Hope nobody was hurt and you have good insurance.![]()
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.![]()
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Marrying my first wife now X, that was stupidly.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.
.Barry, in retrospect is there anything that you could have done differently to prevent this? .