Developing situation - I doubt this will end well...

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by Jerome74911S

What I don't get is why that tree, that looked perfectly healthy and quite beautiful, got cut to begin with. To me it was an asset to that property, not that the yahoo who tried to cut it in the first place would have taken this into account.

One of ours was in the same boat. It was a huge, healthy slash pine but it was in a terrible spot. The rafters in our garage bore the scars of numerous dropped limbs and it was big enough and located so that it could have done some real damage to the neighbor's place too. A 9" branch that fell also nearly hit the wife's car, so it was time to go.

I had no idea how heavy that wood was until I had to drag some dropped branches (logs) that were 18" in diameter out to the street. I cut them into chunks and dragged them out to the street with the truck to try and save my back.

[ckelly78z]

A few years ago, a buddy called me and said that the tree service he was working for would be in a town about 4 miles from my house, and wondered if I wanted some firewood. I took my 3/4 ton truck and a 16' flatbed trailer over there . They were cutting the limbs off of a huge sycamore tree when I got there, so I positioned my trailer at the curb. He had a bucket truck and a crane that was able to lower the limbs to my trailer with his mechanical elbow over the power lines. These limbs were 4' thick and as long as the trailer. I had trouble dragging them off the trailer with my my 4x4 diesel John Deere utilty tractor they weighed so much. The base of the tree was an honest 7' thick and they had trouble cutting through it with thier 36" bar Stihl chainsaw.

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

A few years ago, a buddy called me and said that the tree service he was working for would be in a town about 4 miles from my house, and wondered if I wanted some firewood. I took my 3/4 ton truck and a 16' flatbed trailer over there . They were cutting the limbs off of a huge sycamore tree when I got there, so I positioned my trailer at the curb. He had a bucket truck and a crane that was able to lower the limbs to my trailer with his mechanical elbow over the power lines. These limbs were 4' thick and as long as the trailer. I had trouble dragging them off the trailer with my my 4x4 diesel John Deere utilty tractor they weighed so much. The base of the tree was an honest 7' thick and they had trouble cutting through it with thier 36" bar Stihl chainsaw.

Sycamore is a ***** to cut and hard to split. All that water makes them heavy to load and almost impossible to split until seasoned. Give me some high btu Locust any day of the week. Want to know where the water is? Look for the Sycamore trees.

[gtc]

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

I'm glad there was a happy ending to this, but what kind of son allows/expects his 90 YO mother to live in a house without electricity?
That's elder abuse in my book and should be reported to social services or the police.

I know... think of all the General Hospital episodes she's missing.