More fun and excitment on Peabody's Hill.

[treemandan]

I thought I posted this allready.

Despite what the weather channel, my wife and everybody else said I put the plow on the pick-up, gased the saws and was ready to rumble by 2pm the day it snowed last month. It was pretty obvious to me.

I got up to Peabody's around 5, it was allready dark when I pulled into his driveway, I was shifting into low when this oak fell over in front of me. It brought the cable and phone wires down on the truck, I wasn't waiting for the 3 phase.

As I hit reverse in search of open ground I heard this come down on the people who live at the bottom of Peabody's Hill.

I beached in the middle of someone's front lawn, out from under anything and went to have a look. There was no way I was going to set up and get to it with all the trees breaking so I made plans to come back after an electrician had deemed it safe.


This tree brought down the house drop, it was under the tree running along the roof. I told the client to have the electrician pull it out and secure it, it was still hot.

The tree really wasn't very big, the job was pretty easy.

 

[treemandan]

There is a yellow 4.5 ton ISC up there somewhere.

And I had this 3strand stabilizing the limb laying on the left roof.

To the base rigging, then to the pintle.

 

[lxt]

You have funny looking Oak Trees up there???? LOL



LXT.............

 

[treemandan]

I lifted it enough to where I could hop back on the roof and cut small sections of wood and toss them off until I could nestle it down.

Then I cut and hauled the trunk up.

Yeah, nothing spectacular about it

Well, unless yer talking about me that is.

Then I borrowed their rickety ladder and went to get the stuff off of Peabody's house

I would like to thank my helpers... but I didn't have any.

 

[treemandan]

Peabody is a cool old man. He thinks he is still in Ireland, plays the lyre, has some big amps and everything. He used to play with The Stones and who knows who. He's a rocka rolla from a time past to this day.

 

[treemandan]

You have funny looking Oak Trees up there???? LOL



LXT.............

Well they usually are standing straight up and down. Chestnut oak is common around here.

 

[treemandan]

You might think this is an oak but its not. Its a pinball bumper, plow truck is the pinball. I am glad Peabody paved his drive.

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

Beemandan, you have posted this before...oh well....Im over it....lol

 

[treemandan]

Beemandan, you have posted this before...oh well....Im over it....lol

I knew it. I looked for it but couldn't find it. I am recovering from the flu and lit up with PI.

 

[lxt]

Danno you fightin off the flu bug too? dam it kicked my butt but im feeling much better now, that first pic under the one of the truck cab it almost looks like a hickory?

you should have posted it copyrighted & with instructional narration!! LOL sure it went good for ya & get well my man!!



LXT............

 

[treemandan]

Danno you fightin off the flu bug too? dam it kicked my butt but im feeling much better now, that first pic under the one of the truck cab it almost looks like a hickory?

you should have posted it copyrighted & with instructional narration!! LOL sure it went good for ya & get well my man!!



LXT............

Yeah, it kinda does. Tree ID is tough, you don't have to be stupid to get confused. I like to join the guided walk throughs at the local arboretums when I can. The last one I was in the teacher was like " now if you notice the bark on this poplar..." I was like " that's an ash".
Ken LeRoy was the guide on this tour and he knows his trees. Knows more than I do, way more. Its just tricks our eyes play on us from time to time. This ash had bark that look a lot like a poplar and the crown was obscured. Also little variances can be difficult to distinguish, especially from region to region... even more so when the thing is laying on its side all twisted up in other stuff.
I knew a chestnut oak ( oakius chestnutius) before i took the tour with Ken but I didn't know the bark was used for cork boards. That's a good way to Id this tree, the bark is very thick and corky unlike a hickory ( hickorius). But if you can't tell a maple ( mapleus) from an oak you better get on yer lawn mower and stick to cutting grass ( grasseus)... yer welcome. Huh?:msp_confused:


I got PI on Monday climbing an American chestnut... or maybe it was a chinkapin... maybe it was a chinkapin oak... hell maybe some joker thought it would be funny to make an american chestnut chinkapin oak .

 

[treemandan]

And yeah, don't it suck to be teaching AA. Ahh, well, he can only be him, he can't be me so let him die trying.