recent deliberations on trees horizontal

With the onset of the hurricane season here in AR, preparations must to made. Some provisions must be hauled in in advance of hordes of LA evacuees. They are much more sophisticated now compared to the 2005 rookies. They now leave N.O. with their cell phones ringing up assistance organizations to find out how leaving your below sea level home in NO for safer climes above sea level can be done for fun and profit. NOTE: these are hedging supplies, not speculative supplies.

In addition to food and gas futures, my attention was drawn to two trees in various states of going horizontal. Namely a large pine in the corner of the hayfield which has died and threatens to come under the influence of the first strong wind that shows it any attention. The possibilities are: 1) it falls in my sand trap, 2) it misses the sand but crushes the fence that backstops the grassy noll short game emporium, 3) in falls in pieces over weeks as a constant danger to all golfers in the area, 4) a strong gust topples it into the ravine. 1-3 are likely and disastrous. Option 4 is a fried snowball.

As Josh look at the problem and signed off as above his pay grade, Matt and I knew it must be easy. On my second hammer throw I but the rope over a high limb and secured it. This was affixed by a propiatory system to ane immovable object. falling notches were cut, tension applied proprietarily, and the back cut to direct the tree into the gully was applied. [truth in reporting requires that i mention that while Josh was tucking his head between his leg he did suggest we remove small tree A so the big tree could fall into the gulley. We did this and no tree A was in the path of the big pine falling into the gulley. Alas and alack!! there still wasn't room even with tree A gone. The big pine wedged into tree B were we set on it with an adaptation of the propritory system. This broke of the top of tree B and flipped the large pine into tree C. Tree C had not been thought to be in any danger.

We hooked up the tractor directly to the large pine and thus indirectly to tree C. This is the position called in textbooks the tire hole configuration. Matt never actually got the tractor stuck, but he was low on diesel fuel.

after Matt tucked tail and ran off, Sarah and I hooked up the truck in 4 wheel drive and pull the tree out of the others and onto the ground.

I haven't started cutting it up yet and Gustaf winds arrived. In addition to a limb over the little house knocking the chemney off and rubbing a hole in the roof that you could see into the atic, the persimmon tree formerly in the sheltered NW corner of the tractor shed was hit by winds circular from the NW and uprooted diagonally over the tractor shed wtih the tractor and the zero turn TANK right under it.

we now have a large pine gone horizontal in the back, a semihorizontal persimmon at the tractor shed, a hole in the roof and 2" of water in the basement. We should be bailing water, patching roofs, and bracing up the tractor shed. What we are doing is filling complaints with LA representatives for federal monies. I AM A VICTIM. BB