Sorry for forgeting to introdice myself properly

[SylvainG]

Hi all, I've been inserting myself into discussions for about 3 weeks without first introducing myself, my apologies. I'm a Frenchman from Québec's southwest and semi-retired, looking to a full retirement next summer and plan on staying in my cottage full time in a few years. I wanted to get a TLB for a few years now, ever since we had a storm that took down over 200 hundreds trees during a 10 seconds microburst in 2016. Here's a choppy video from a security camera that caught the storm. In the description, I mention that 50 trees fell over my 300 meters road but after counting them while clearing the road, it was 88 trees..

Tempete du 2 juin vu de la camera pointant vers la cour arriere - YouTube

I was too bummed to work on it the next couple of years but started to clean it two years ago. So, yeah, the TLB will be used to help us clear out the forest and move trees so it will see much more use starting next spring than just blowing snow now.

 

[Wagtail]

Bonjour mon ami et bienvenue à TBN d'Australie.

Profitez du site ... que vous êtes déjà.

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G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

Enjoy the site... which you already are.

 

[SylvainG]

Merci, thanks

I already profited many times from info and wisdom found on this site

 

[kenmbz]

Welcome to TBN SylvainG !

 

[PILOON]

Et bienvenu d'un autre Quebcois qui demeure dans les Laurentides.

 

[SylvainG]

Thanks et merci

 

[TBN Support]

Welcome! :wave:

That sounds like it was quite a storm!

 

[Thomas]

:welcome: to TBN.

hard storm indeed.

 

[SylvainG]

Thanks and yes, it was something else. My daughter and her friends were at the cottage for their after grade party. We spent the (sunny) day on the lake and had just came in half an hour before the storm hit and I was preparing diner. Sadly, she had to cancel the after grade and parents came to pickup their kids through the boat launch parking. There were no way we could walk through my road. There used to be a road under this

To show the shear strength of that storm, here's the roots of a pine tree that was uprooted.

Although the kids managed to find fun in this ordeal

 

[GeneV]

SylvainG wow, that uprooted tree pic is crazy!

 

[MoKelly]

Welcome from Missouri.

MoKelly

 

[kenmbz]

We had a micro-burst here a few years back. even took out some telephone poles down towards the river.
Glad you all made it out in one piece!

 

[SylvainG]

Yeah, we were lucky to have been inside when it hit, otherwise there would have been nowhere really safe to go.

The storm down three telephone poles on my private road. This is what Hydro had to bring in to fix it (and luckily for me, they cleared the road for free ). They spent the whole day clearing the road and fixing the line. When I took the picture, they were discussing how to deal with the damage that was done.

 

[two_bit_score]

Merci, thanks

I already profited many times from info and wisdom found on this site

:welcome:

Welcome from Texas!