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.

Despite hoping for a YouTube moment, knowing about the mother there makes me happy the tree did not fall on to the house.

Thanks for a fun diversion today.

Well, I'm glad no one got hurt. Thanks for a cliffhanger of a thread!
Reminds me of a neighborhood I used to live in. Please keep us updated on your neighbors.
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Some local city governments will not allow utilities to cut off seniors.

Long shot but worth checking into.

If the bill is in her name, there may be assistance for the elderly if the weather requires heat and/or air.

Glad all ended well but I have to admit I was following with the same interest of knowing there is going to be trouble.

We were all expecting an epic fail, but this story failed to deliver that. So... does that make this an Epic Fail fail?

Had this been posted on ClubSi, VWVortex, WRXforums, or even Rennlist, it would have not ended so (boringly) well. But that's Pelican for you -- nothing exciting, just folks posting picutres of their dinners, talking about spoons, bickering over politics.

Man, we ALL need to get out more!

-Z

not tonight! brrr.

Glad there was no loss of life, (human) limb, or property.

Like many good Movies with a somewhat anticlimax ending.

Glad it worked out.

What do now?
Stump Carvings
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As much as we all like to see carnage, it's better that no one was hurt or property was damaged.


This is a pretty good video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3o9DbH-EM

I'll join the booing for a responsible ending!

That's terrible about the guy's mom though, being 90 years old with no power and bad weather coming. Hope she ends up alright.

Who's job is it to find a new crippled tree for us to watch??? :eek:

Wait. So this guy climbed a tree and cut the limbs on a tree that had been notched with 74 mph winds?

Wow.

I think it was notched with a chainsaw, and we are expecting 74mph winds today.:p

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.

Electricity shut off, house is cold, mom's shawl is gettin' a little thin, Christmas is coming. Let's heat the house with the free wood out in the yard. I'll just tie it to the jeep Easy-breezy, lemon squeezy.

Go outside, man the wind is blowing 60 mph, forget that.

Not sure, but I think there is a (federal) program called LIHEAP in Cali that provides assistance for low income people that are having utility bill problems. Does it still exist in Cali? Don't know but might be worth looking into to help the 90+ YO mother out.

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Good point Jerome but I feel that trees after they get big become a liability. We had this one cut down by an arborist about 6 weeks ago. He threw up a rope towards the top of the tree. His wife pulled on the rope while he made the effective cuts on the tree. The tree dropped exactly where it was supposed to.

If the tree was any bigger then he would have to climb the tree and work his way down with the chain saw. Our neighbours have trees bigger than this - three of them planted approx 50 years ago . One for each child. Unfortunately the tree roots from one are growing under our garage. Another tree has roots growing into our lawn. When we or the neighbours come to sell our properties tree roots on neighbour's lawn is called an encroachment on the property. This has legal and financial implications. We have urged him to have these trees removed so I can also cut my lawn without hitting roots.

Fortunately he has agreed to have the trees cut down. That means less pine needles in the eavestroughing and reduced fire hazard.

That is my .05 cents worth.

Cheers, Guy

Those were well described reasons for tree removal, Guy. We live in the country where these points are not a consideration, but I understand.

Yesterday we had a heavy and wet snowfall, and when I walked the dog through the forest this morning it was very dismaying, because trees are bent and broken all over the place - in the hundreds, actually - and so the hiking trails and the old logging road are totally blocked by fallen trees of every species.

Maybe the genius whose tree cutting skills are the topic of this thread is looking for some work . . .

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.

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. ;)

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