Cleaning downed trees after high wind storm

[TractorTYMe]

Again the West was hit with hurricane speed wind force between 50 - 90Mph. Downed trees hit my house, tho no significant damage luckily. Had to go get a 5ton JD 50G mini excavator from work to assist.

 

[t1kilo]

Glad to hear there was no significant damage and that you’re okay. Good luck with the cleanup. It helps to have access to nice tools!

 

[Gregster613]

Again the West was hit with hurricane speed wind force between 50 - 90Mph. Downed trees hit my house, tho no significant damage luckily. Had to go get a 5ton JD 50G mini excavator from work to assist.



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Those must have been "horrible" winds - glad to see nothing was damaged - though it's hard to see how anything wasn't!!
Stay safe

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

We had winds clocked at 98mph (South central Washington Columbia river gorge area). Dozens of standing trees blown over. No one had any property damage close by but the medical clinic picture in the link shows what the wind can do.

MSN

I did get 3 cords of red fir off the road.

 

[Hay Dude]

We had a 110 MPH straight-line wind here 3 years ago. I’m still cleaning up one of my customer’s places. Its a huge mess.

We are actually starting phase 3 of the cleanup in January. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.

 

[RayIN]

We had a 110 MPH straight-line wind here 3 years ago. I’m still cleaning up one of my customer’s places. Its a huge mess.

Watch the widow-makers!

 

[rumwrks]

No damage at my place but the older neighbor lady down the road a bit had a fresh clear cut next to her place that the lumber co left a "buffer zone" on... When the rain and wind hit those 50yr old firs in the buffer that had grown in plantation conditions didn't have near enough root to support themselves and over they went. To say her yard is a mess is a wild understatement. Luckily it only nicked one small outbuilding but mostly left everything else except some fence was pretty much undamaged. She's waiting on the ins adjuster, we'll see.. I did offer to just get a couple of the guys together and rebuilt the shed roof and pick up the fence if they're to difficult, it would pretty much be an afternoon project. I saw a few other fairly big trees down along the way (some 3-4' firs..) but they all seemed to have missed hitting anything important.

 

[GrandpaSmurf825]

Do they refer to those storms as Derechos? We had one two years ago that started less than 5 mile north of us and had began on the Iowa side of the Mississippi. It cut a swath of destruction all the way into Indiana that varied in intensity and width. Near here there were a lot of trees, grain bins, and power line poles damaged along with corn fields flat on the ground and buildings with roofs off. You can still identify damage around the countryside when you know what to look for. Some people didn't have electricity for 2 weeks.

 

[sd455dan]

Horse fence after that storm, everything else OK but have to keep the horse in a different field till I get the fence line cleared and re string it.

Last picture- this snapped off tree just caught my log splitter but luckily missed my nephew's brand new wood mill that I am Borrowing Yikes- that was close.

Stay safe out there.

 

[jyoutz]

I’ve seen the aftermath of several of those “microbursts.” We always salvaged the timber and then piled the slash for burning and planted trees afterwards. Of course the loggers hated cutting and skidding logs in the jackstrawed mess, especially since they had to use chainsaws instead of mechanical harvesting machines. They were never popular timber sales, but there were always some purchasers because of the large valuable timber felled by the blow down.

 

[Torvy]

Glad y'all are safe. There but for the grace of God go I.

I need to get some of the trees near the house cut before we get hit hard.

 

[rumwrks]

I need to get some of the trees near the house cut before we get hit hard.

I had 3 of the trees near the house I didn't feel comfortable taking down myself cut down this fall and I do not regret doing that at all. I cut down all of the old firs next to the tractor barn last spring and ditto on being happy about having that done. I'm still cleaning up some of that.. but better to be doing it on my terms and not after something hit the well house or the shop or the house.

 

[Gregster613]

Horse fence after that storm, everything else OK but have to keep the horse in a different field till I get the fence line cleared and re string it.

Last picture- this snapped off tree just caught my log splitter but luckily missed my nephew's brand new wood mill that I am Borrowing Yikes- that was close.

Stay safe out there.

Yikes you sure were lucky there!! Would have been bad voo-chew to have gotten your nephews wood mill smashed up!!

 

[RayIN]

A tornado went through just North of my house last Jan. It was close enough that it uprooted a dead tree from water-soaked groung, which in turn uprooted a large Black Walnut, both fell on my pole barn. The barn was totally destroyed. We had so much rain it caused the trees to blow down uprooted; then still dodging the rain and soaked ground, it took the contractor 3 months before he could get his equipment up the ¼-mile bottom land field to begin cleanup work.
Constructing the new barn took 2 months, having to work around heavy rain and soaked ground again.
I must say, Property Owners Ins. was/is a stand-up company to work with, from claim filing to receiving a check in the mail was one week.

 

[grsthegreat]

I had a bunch come down also, only 1 hit my shop. Minor roof damage. I just cut and hauled everything out to arena and field to deal with next spring.

I had just cleaned my trails…will have to clean them again.