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I had a large limb fall out of a silver maple and land on my garage earlier this summer. The limb was about 40' long and roughly 12" across at the base. The base was still snagged in the tree which was about 15 ft from the garage. The fork where it broke and hung was about 8ft above the garage roof, and amazingly it didn't do much damage to the roof. One branch poked a baseball sized hole through the roof above the overhang on the front of the garage. Easy repair. I had my 14yo son give me a hand cleaning it up so that I wasn't having to go up and down the ladder every 5 minutes. I had the limb all cut up to the front edge of the garage in a couple of hours. Easy peezy. Since it was in the upper 90s that Saturday, we decided to call it a day and come back the following Saturday to finish getting the branch on the ground and cleaned up. My 34' travel trailer sits beside this tree, so the following Saturday I pulled it forward about 20' to get it out of the way. A couple of cuts later and the end of the branch was on its way to the ground exactly they way I anticipated. What I didn't realize was that the height of the base of the branch was about 18" taller than the remaining length of the branch meaning that the branch was not long enough to reach the ground. As it approached vertical, I realized the error of my ways. It proceeded a little past 90 degrees before finally breaking off and falling roughly 18" to the ground. At that point the recently freed end (ie the HEAVY end) of the branch was free to swing back towards the overhang of the garage, picking up momentum as it went. [ATTACH=full]1205845[/ATTACH]I was extremely lucky. It made contact with the garage door, but not enough to leave a mark. Realistically, this repair involved a pair of 12' 2x6s, a sheet of OSB about 10 pcs of siding, a couple sticks of J Channel, some nails and some time. Could have been a lot worse.
I had a large limb fall out of a silver maple and land on my garage earlier this summer. The limb was about 40' long and roughly 12" across at the base. The base was still snagged in the tree which was about 15 ft from the garage. The fork where it broke and hung was about 8ft above the garage roof, and amazingly it didn't do much damage to the roof. One branch poked a baseball sized hole through the roof above the overhang on the front of the garage. Easy repair. I had my 14yo son give me a hand cleaning it up so that I wasn't having to go up and down the ladder every 5 minutes. I had the limb all cut up to the front edge of the garage in a couple of hours. Easy peezy. Since it was in the upper 90s that Saturday, we decided to call it a day and come back the following Saturday to finish getting the branch on the ground and cleaned up. My 34' travel trailer sits beside this tree, so the following Saturday I pulled it forward about 20' to get it out of the way. A couple of cuts later and the end of the branch was on its way to the ground exactly they way I anticipated. What I didn't realize was that the height of the base of the branch was about 18" taller than the remaining length of the branch meaning that the branch was not long enough to reach the ground. As it approached vertical, I realized the error of my ways. It proceeded a little past 90 degrees before finally breaking off and falling roughly 18" to the ground. At that point the recently freed end (ie the HEAVY end) of the branch was free to swing back towards the overhang of the garage, picking up momentum as it went.
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I was extremely lucky. It made contact with the garage door, but not enough to leave a mark. Realistically, this repair involved a pair of 12' 2x6s, a sheet of OSB about 10 pcs of siding, a couple sticks of J Channel, some nails and some time. Could have been a lot worse.
