Reminds me of being out my parents place in Halifax when Hurricane Jaun came into town. We watched a tree with a good meter diameter trunk just slowly rip out of the ground and tumble into the woods. Too bad, it was a spectacular tree and without it the front yard just looks remarkably empty. Lots of other trees came down that night, thankfully none on the house. One knocked out the power lines. We actually had some wonderful volunteers from the states come up and help us clear out most of the problems.
The problem was they left one tree that was severely canted by the storm and was going to come down eventually. So me and my father had to take it out. Woo, boy, that was an experience. My father only had a rusty old chainsaw with blunt teeth and he was basically whacking at it, trying to cut out a divot and make it fall into the yard. He had me with a massive rope wrapped around the thing, trying to help pull it so that it toppled away from the house. Of course, our battle with the forces of gravity was doomed to failure. The tree went in towards the house and knocked off the power lines again. It was only as the tree toppled away from me that I realised how incredibly stupid our plan was. I was trying to pull the tree down toward me which strikes me as just about the most insane thing I have ever done in my life in retrospect.
Glad to hear you weathered the storm safely, though.
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Epsilon
The problem was they left one tree that was severely canted by the storm and was going to come down eventually. So me and my father had to take it out. Woo, boy, that was an experience. My father only had a rusty old chainsaw with blunt teeth and he was basically whacking at it, trying to cut out a divot and make it fall into the yard. He had me with a massive rope wrapped around the thing, trying to help pull it so that it toppled away from the house. Of course, our battle with the forces of gravity was doomed to failure. The tree went in towards the house and knocked off the power lines again. It was only as the tree toppled away from me that I realised how incredibly stupid our plan was. I was trying to pull the tree down toward me which strikes me as just about the most insane thing I have ever done in my life in retrospect.
Glad to hear you weathered the storm safely, though.
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Epsilon