Mother Nature vs load capacity...

[DILLARD000]

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"Tis but a scratch...only a flesh wound" Monty Python's Black Knight

 

[Curious Hound]

"Tis but a scratch...only a flesh wound" Monty Python's Black Knight

We like the picture.

 

[Alan_nc]

Lost power for about 15 hours.

Had the same thing happen to my 95 Frontier. Strange thing the insurance company wouldn't pay to remove the tree, I had to cut the tree off the truck. After that they listed it as totaled and sent someone to pick up the truck.

 

[sgtsandman]

We have one heck of a widow maker hanging up in the huge silver maple in the back yard. The only reason it hasn’t been tended to is because it is very securely lodged by a Y fork over another large branch. That and someone would have to climb the tree. There is no way to get a bucket truck or JLG back there to work on it from my yard or the neighbor’s.

 

[Curious Hound]

We have one heck of a widow maker hanging up in the huge silver maple in the back yard. The only reason it hasn’t been tended to is because it is very securely lodged by a Y fork over another large branch. That and someone would have to climb the tree. There is no way to get a bucket truck or JLG back there to work on it from my yard or the neighbor’s.

Go redneck and shoot it down.
Video is mandatory

 

[sgtsandman]

Go redneck and shoot it down.
Video is mandatory

It might take a 25 round box of shotgun slugs to make it happen and dealing with the police for shooting in town.

 

[Dirtman]

It might take a 25 round box of shotgun slugs to make it happen and dealing with the police for shooting in town.

Tie a knife to the branch, claim self defense. You'll be fine.

 

[RonD]

Thats now a GREAT Parking spot, never get another tree to fall on that exact spot

 

[Rick W]

The whole tree needs to come down... I need a bigger tractor to pull that off.

You can’t just pull it/them down with the ranger?

And that concept that lightning never strikes twice? I was Ground Zero for the Dunwoody tornado in 98, and I got hit by lightning again last year. Our place in the islands gets hit every other year...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

You can’t just pull it/them down with the ranger?

And that concept that lightning never strikes twice? I was Ground Zero for the Dunwoody tornado in 98, and I got hit by lightning again last year. Our place in the islands gets hit every other year...

No, it is a pin oak with a 4’ diameter trunk.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

No, it is a pin oak with a 4’ diameter trunk.

Thats a job for a 2.9.

 

[Dirtman]

Thats a job for a 2.9.

Park the 2.9 under it and wait for the inevitable fire to burn down the tree?

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Park the 2.9 under it and wait for the inevitable fire to burn down the tree?

No the leaking antifreeze would kill it.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

Tree goes vroom?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

No the leaking antifreeze would kill it.

Its already dying. I have heard sprinkling no iron around is supposed to help them though...