Roots in the septic tank

[RNeumann]

The local septic tank company has a crane on the truck. So you shouldn't need an excavator.
It sounds like with all the other work needed it is time to rent a backhoe to help with the tree, road and septic.

 

[handirifle]

Well the neighbor with the case 680 will be back home Sat. I leave Sat for Vegas. Tomorrow I am hoping we can make the road usable again with the rock. If so, we can get his backhoe down here to help on the logs. He does not have a thumb on his bucket so he can't lift them. The section of trunk left attached to the root ball is 24ft long, and 24" at the top and 48" at the stump.

I have checked with a local rustic sawmill guy. He doesn't want it. It's Valley Oak, and he has several (trees are falling all over the place around here). He would like to have a Live Oak. Also called some treehouse guys (seen on TV as Redwood Builders), that are 20 miles up the road, but it is too small for them.
We tried to cut the root ball from the trunk, but 2 20" chain saws leave a big chunk in the center still uncut, and with a 5/16" grade 70 chain and my diesel truck, I couldn't snap the rest loose. It did bend the Reese insert for my 2 5/16" trailer ball though!

Thanks for the tip on the tank company truck. Probably a delivery charge then. That will save some serious money.

Right now ANY back hoe WILL get stuck on the road. My little MF1010 almost does.

 

[handirifle]

RNeumann
Looks like our prayers have been answered. Local weather now shows for the next couple of weeks very little or no chance of rain. We keep praying it will stay that way. I think I have had enough rain for this winter. I think California has!

 

[RNeumann]

Well, you get everything cleaned up and buttoned up? Are things dry enough to inspect the leach lines?

 

[handirifle]

It is drying out, but I'm not sure I am going to do any more to it. Once the rains slowed down, we got leach again. I am 100% sure it was a matter of flooding underground. We literally got more than 2 years of average amount of rainfall, for this area, in a little over one month. All of CA did. The "experts" thought they would never see lake Oroville at it's capacity, so they never fixed the breach in the spillway. Well the lake went OVER capacity in 30 days of rain. That is a 700ft tall earthen dam and the lake was nearly empty.

Our ground around here, in places is plain soggy, unfortunately. We've used it this last week with zero issues. With losing a major tree into our road and other things happening here I really haven't even looked at it all week.

 

[RNeumann]

Glad to hear the pluming is headed down hill!

 

[handirifle]

I still have plans to open the distribution box, once I find it. The discharge line comes off at a 45 deg angle so I placed marker stakes along the line of the angle, so there will be some hunting for it but at least I have an idea.

I still want to insure roots are not in there as well, but for now I am still in clean up mode. I have a pretty big pile of limbs we trimmed off the fallen tree, that I will burn soon.

 

[RNeumann]

Yesterday was a burn day. I'm sure they will have a few more

 

[handirifle]

Yea I several out burning. I need to. Ove my piles out from under the power lines.

 

[crazyal]

It doesn't sound like you want the tree so I would use your saws and cut the base about 3 or 4 inches up from where you tried to cut it. You should then be able to use an axe or sledge to knock out the piece of wood between the cuts. If you do that several times you should remove enough so you can get your saw inside it and cut all the way through. You may even find that you can make the cuts further apart.