It’s expensive entertainment (see short slo-mo video below), but at least we didn’t have to go far to participate. Most watched from the ANNex windows. I had to see for myself.
The guys from Foggy Mountain Outdoor Maintenance arrived unexpectedly at the back door late yesterday morning, when their intended job of the day got nixed because of the muddy ground.
Ricky had come out a few months ago to clean our gutters, and I mentioned to him Ann’s concern about (and willingness to spend the money to remove) this 18″ diameter, 60 foot tall tulip poplar.
I had to grudgingly agree. Rotten at the base where the logging machinery in 1993 had injured it, this tree could go any time. Which direction was anybody’s guess.
To the north, Â it would take out our powerline. To the east is our shed (whose roof you can see a bit of near image-center) and beyond that, the house. It would clearly lay waste to the shed and turn some future time into a terrible, no-good, very bad day.
The good thing going here was that we had determined Ricky’s utility truck could make it up the logging road above the house to tension a line he would fix high up in the tree. This would direct the line of fall to the west. You can click to watch it fall in slow motion, filmed with the iPhone 5s. TIMBER!!
Spoiler: Watch for the widow-maker to come down after you think it’s all over. Keep your guard UP when trees come DOWN!
Nice little video. You gotta watch those widow makers! Hope 2014 is good to you Fred.
So they do make noise when they fall! Happy New Year Fred.