Broken Trees
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Some days are better than others. Some not so much - must be catching. The plumber is out with a backhoe destroying my front yard to try to fix a water line leak that is pouring money into the ground then the washing machine crapped out this morning. 2020 is not our best year.
wrote on 22 Jun 2020, 21:59 last edited by@Mik said in Broken Trees:
Some days are better than others. Some not so much - must be catching. The plumber is out with a backhoe destroying my front yard to try to fix a water line leak that is pouring money into the ground then the washing machine crapped out this morning. 2020 is not our best year.
Sorry to hear, Mik.
There is not a whole lot more frustrating, than to put out loads of cash, just to get back to where you were. It's not like you can say, "wanna see my new pipe, or my new washer?"Bummer, but I guess we all go through it once in awhile.
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wrote on 22 Jun 2020, 22:25 last edited by
Sweetgum is a mostly worthless tree. Lousy firewood. Lumber that does the watusi warp. And gumballs that hurt when you step on them and help tear your mower up.
Second only to tallow trees in uselessness.
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wrote on 22 Jun 2020, 22:57 last edited by
I hear cottonwoods are a pain also.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 14:12 last edited by
@Copper Glad you are okay and no damage to your house!! Kind of scary
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I had just finished mowing the lawn as a good size thunderstorm started moving in.
I heard a load crack, but didn't see anything. I waited watching the gusts blowing the trees. Another loud crack and a Sweet Gum tree in my back yard, maybe 45 feet tall fell over taking a couple other trees with it.
Right on top of my armillary. I haven't checked it yet, it is still raining.
image url)wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 14:26 last edited by@Copper said in Broken Trees:
I had just finished mowing the lawn as a good size thunderstorm started moving in.
I heard a load crack, but didn't see anything. I waited watching the gusts blowing the trees. Another loud crack and a Sweet Gum tree in my back yard, maybe 45 feet tall fell over taking a couple other trees with it.
Right on top of my armillary. I haven't checked it yet, it is still raining.
Ok... my first thought was who has Copper got buried there?
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 14:31 last edited by
Uh . . . have we heard from Aqua lately???
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@Copper said in Broken Trees:
I had just finished mowing the lawn as a good size thunderstorm started moving in.
I heard a load crack, but didn't see anything. I waited watching the gusts blowing the trees. Another loud crack and a Sweet Gum tree in my back yard, maybe 45 feet tall fell over taking a couple other trees with it.
Right on top of my armillary. I haven't checked it yet, it is still raining.
Ok... my first thought was who has Copper got buried there?
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 15:17 last edited by Mik
Well, it gets better and better. Today he nicked an electric cable that wasn't where it was marked. Now Duke is out there looking at it, and since electric and phone and cable have half a dozen lines going right over the path he has to hand dig that several feet and the ground is much too wet to do that.
Still no water yet.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 15:39 last edited by
You're not obligated to pay for that, I trust?
What a gigantic pain!
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 16:19 last edited by
Actually Duke does not do repairs between the transformer and the meter (weird), but he shut off the power and luckily had the parts my guy needed to repair the line. So we were only without power for maybe an hour. If we can get water restored today through a temporary splice that would be great.
But I'm not holding my breath.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 19:37 last edited by Mik
Water is flowing and the meter leak detector shows no leak. We may have dodged a bullet, but the plumbers both said this was a nightmare job.
Now we have to negotiate what to pay him. There were two estimates. One was for three feet of splice, the second one was for 30 feet. They actually spliced about two feet, but it was much, much more difficult than it should have been. The idiots who did it originally actually created a loop in the copper line that went down 52" deep. Should have been 32".
I'm thinking split the difference between the two estimates.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 19:45 last edited by
So, Copper.... now that I have thoroughly hijacked your thread, how are the trees doing?
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 20:44 last edited by Copper
I cleaned up the stuff on the lawn and on the shrubs.
And cut up all the branches with the chainsaw.
Now I need estimates from tree guys to take down the trunks that are broken off and still 10 feet in the air, and probably weigh as much as my house.
I am almost stupid enough to try taking down these trunks myself.
But the 50-60 foot section that fell was attached to another 50-60 foot section that is still standing. The remaining section is probably unsafe. I need a real tree guy to risk his life taking it down.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2020, 21:08 last edited by Mik
I think that‘s a wise choice. I’ve taken down some big trees but not that big.
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wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 12:40 last edited by
Speaking of trees . . . I have a fellow cleaning my gutters this morning, and removing moss on the roof shingles. He just came in and showed me pix he took with his phone; my gutters are chock-a-block with small branches and foliage and crap.
I'm a lousy homeowner.
Nothing like Copper's and Mik's headaches of this week, but geeeez, I hate stuff like this. If I had my druthers I'd have a condo with a maintenance contract.
Grump.
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wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 12:56 last edited by
Our next home will be either a condo or a country ranch with no trees anywhere near the gutters.
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Water is flowing and the meter leak detector shows no leak. We may have dodged a bullet, but the plumbers both said this was a nightmare job.
Now we have to negotiate what to pay him. There were two estimates. One was for three feet of splice, the second one was for 30 feet. They actually spliced about two feet, but it was much, much more difficult than it should have been. The idiots who did it originally actually created a loop in the copper line that went down 52" deep. Should have been 32".
I'm thinking split the difference between the two estimates.
wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 14:09 last edited by@Mik said in Broken Trees:
Water is flowing and the meter leak detector shows no leak. We may have dodged a bullet, but the plumbers both said this was a nightmare job.
Yay!! (not that it was a nightmare job, but that it is finished)
Amazing what you take for granted and only realize it when you don't have it. LOL
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wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 15:04 last edited by
I was just thinking that very thing yesterday. How nice it was to flush the toilet and take a shower.
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I was just thinking that very thing yesterday. How nice it was to flush the toilet and take a shower.
wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 15:08 last edited by@Mik said in Broken Trees:
How nice it was to flush the toilet and take a shower.
No, no, Mik. You don't flush the toilet to take a shower. The toilet is for other things having to do with disposal.
Look for the fat spigot thing coming out of the wall. That's for the shower.
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I cleaned up the stuff on the lawn and on the shrubs.
And cut up all the branches with the chainsaw.
Now I need estimates from tree guys to take down the trunks that are broken off and still 10 feet in the air, and probably weigh as much as my house.
I am almost stupid enough to try taking down these trunks myself.
But the 50-60 foot section that fell was attached to another 50-60 foot section that is still standing. The remaining section is probably unsafe. I need a real tree guy to risk his life taking it down.
wrote on 24 Jun 2020, 20:07 last edited by Jolly@Copper said in Broken Trees:
I cleaned up the stuff on the lawn and on the shrubs.
And cut up all the branches with the chainsaw.
Now I need estimates from tree guys to take down the trunks that are broken off and still 10 feet in the air, and probably weigh as much as my house.
I am almost stupid enough to try taking down these trunks myself.
But the 50-60 foot section that fell was attached to another 50-60 foot section that is still standing. The remaining section is probably unsafe. I need a real tree guy to risk his life taking it down.
Dead man off and winch it, pull it or put a come along on it. You'll need a extension ladder, a couple of chains, 100 feet of half inch cable and a tractor, truck with winch or a truck and at least a two-ton come along. Put a chain or the end of your cable with a choker about as high as you can comfortably reach with the ladder, then underbit in the direction you want to go, get the slack out of the cable and keep a little bit of pull as you cut the tree.
Or hire someone to take it down.