Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Cut The Tree Down Now. My house has been hit by a tree that I loved but had gotten a little senile. Clean up was no fun. SonC. spent how much money fixing his house when the tree hit it. We had a storm through two years ago that wiped out some 100 year old oaks. They had been damaged by two years of drought followed by one year of flood that rotted the roots. It cost a friend of mine $10,000 in crane fees just to get one magnificent oak off her roof. Then she spent a few hundred thousand dollars to repair the house down to the foundation. Yes, insurance paid the bills, but nine months in an apartment was not pleasant. An oak that falls when it is still alive is a huge heavy lever that smashes things until it hits ground; rafters, walls, second floor joists, first floor walls, first floor joists, and the foundation walls above ground. Please create some nice firewood and enjoy many pleasant fall evenings by a cheery fire. Oak can make a pretty good BBQ if you mix in some hickory or mesquite. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:33 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad Day At 08:23 PM 7/29/2004, you wrote: >Not a good day for our neighbors just back from Hawaii! And, to boot, >it's a tree owned by the City. > >Not high art but definately good for a racing pulse. > >Adam Ouch! It's amazing to see how few roots the tree pulled up. I guess they snapped off. We have a huge oak tree in our front yard that has a spot of oak-tree-rot on the side. The county extension agent says nothing can be done to cure the tree. I'm afraid every time we have a storm that it will crash into my office here on the second floor. I would hate to lose the ancient tree that shades our whole yard, but we may have to have it cut down - especially after seeing photos like this. My tree is about twice that big! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information