Giant dead rotten tree

Get a shotgun and a couple boxes of shells and put that sucker on the ground. I had a large pine tree got struck by lighting and died and when it rotted thats how I brought it down.
 
Bailey Boat said:
Winna, Winna, chicken dinna!! He's going to wish he'd listened to the wife....
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She’s been calling the TV stations trying to get America Funniest Home Videos brought back so she can submit her winning video when “it” does happen :D.
 
thrillhill said:
Guy had a stump in the yard that he wanted to get rid of without working too hard. He'd been burning yard debris piled around and on the stump off and on for 2 or 3 months. Before they went to the beach he had cleaned up around the stump. Wasn't hardly anything left in that area. You could barely tell there was ever a stump there.
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Ugh. We had that microburst about a month ago that took down a lot of those big old trees and several good sized pines. If you’ve driven through Goldston recently, you would have seen them. South side of town. One guy was burning the stump of a big old pine. Those roots spread.

My parents neighbor was having a guy clear the underbrush from some land. He was burning the remains and stumps.

Fires waiting to happen.
 
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I've run so many fire calls where someone tried burning down a dead tree and its set the woods on fire (or worse). Not only that, but the breeze can pick up embers from a burning tree and start fires a quarter mile away. You're liable to burn someone's house or barn down like that.

Its expensive, but the best/safest option is to hire someone with a bucket truck to come in and drop it a piece at a time. Painful on the wallet, but you're not putting your neighbors and their kids at risk that way.
 
RedneckFur said:
I've run so many fire calls where someone tried burning down a dead tree and its set the woods on fire (or worse). Not only that, but the breeze can pick up embers from a burning tree and start fires a quarter mile away. You're liable to burn someone's house or barn down like that.

Its expensive, but the best/safest option is to hire someone with a bucket truck to come in and drop it a piece at a time. Painful on the wallet, but you're not putting your neighbors and their kids at risk that way.
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Lucky for me there are no neighbors within a quarter of a mile from my house. And, I just did a controlled burn of my 30 acre property about 2 months ago. All the fuel on the forest floor is already gone. So, I'm good.
 
georgel said:
I don't get it. It's too big and dangerous to cut down, but you're burning out the base. Isn't the rest going to fall uncontrolled?
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Yes sir. It's going to fall uncontrolled, but I'm not going to be standing at the base holding a chain saw when the limbs break off and fall from the tippy top...
 
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Scsmith42 said:
That tree is definitely a widowmaker. Looks like you have another dead one in the background too.
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Yep. That's a dead pine, about 100 yards back on the woods. I'm going to leave it alone and let it fall on its own.

The only reason I am burning this one tree is because it's right where I want to build a nice new chicken coop.
 
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RedneckFur said:
I've run so many fire calls where someone tried burning down a dead tree and its set the woods on fire (or worse). Not only that, but the breeze can pick up embers from a burning tree and start fires a quarter mile away. You're liable to burn someone's house or barn down like that.

Its expensive, but the best/safest option is to hire someone with a bucket truck to come in and drop it a piece at a time. Painful on the wallet, but you're not putting your neighbors and their kids at risk that way.
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One came down last summer this way; $1,200. Another a month ago, $600. Number 3 is a couple years off but on the list.
 
We lost one of our 11 Giant Battery Oaks . Guy said it was over 150 years old. Got water in it...s...p...l...i...t. $3,500 to make disappear.

5 men...a million dollars wortha equipment...and 3 days.
 
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The last post was May 29th...

I got the tree and stump totally burnt out a long time ago.

I wanted to give y'all an update with a few pics of the chicken coop i built in its place.

My wife and daughters call it our chicken mansion. It still needs a few trim pieces and paint.

It's 20' wide by 10' deep by 10' tall in the front and 9' tall in the back.
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