Cleanin’ house

Runnin’ the saws until the rain began again.     Thats an old Maple, and if’n ya zoom in, you can see, roots rotted away.  Tree was still very much alive this past summer,,, Not so much today.   Amazed it hadn’t fallen sooner, lookin’ at that rootball.  Elbee is all afreak’ed out: he’s never been around buzzy chainsaws, and there were two going wide open to get to where you see in the second picture.    Mama-cita was sitting on the porch watching ‘her minions’ clean up her queendom,,, She’s used to the sounds and knows she is safe, so long as she isn’t NEAR them.

And my carport roof blew away.   Found it in the trees at the end of my driveway.   Thats not a neccesity, just a nice addition, and I will get a replacement as soon as possible,,,  Just not today.

And there is a very much neccesary set of items needed ASAP.   A couple of turnbuckles for that set of guywires to the wind-genny.   I had one on hand, not the right size, but will suffice for the time being, and jury-rigged the guywires back to snug.   Will need proper repair soonest. and ALL OF THEM need going over now.   The tower stands tall, but that sort of impact, that can bend a turnbuckle in half,,, Yeah,   I know there is a credible chance of broken welds at the minimum.  Time to bust my drone back out and refresh my FPV app on my phone.  (its one of the cheapies, but it works very well for tower inspections.)

and now Da and Unk are talking about the “other trees that need fellin’ “   I have another maple (seen in the above pics), likely in as bad of  shape as the one that fell today, and a white oak that succumbed to age or something that is shedding its bark.   Both need ‘gone’ and I have a feeling that while I work at the salt mines, those two hooligans are going to scare my house and surroundings, with crashing trees.    Like me, they dislike being supervised, and will jump on things when I am NOT AROUND so I can’t ‘tug at their elbows’.

BUT, there is my fire wood for next season.   Two big maples and a huge white oak, all three at least 18″ dia at the base.     Plenty of wood for a season of serious knock your socks off cold weather (with my little house that is,,,)

What a way to wrap out the year,,,   Not a bad thing, but ‘ominous’, 

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