Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Lee192233]

this is one of the trees I went to war with the neighbor about years ago. Finally came over in the wind today. The neighbors daughter and wife stopped by when we were getting the tree (s, technically 2 trees.) off the roof.
Imagine this, now I magically have permission to take all the trees down that border my house on their property. Insurance puke is supposed to stop by tomorrow morning. Should be interesting.
The little roof took the bulk of the damage, 5 or 6 solar panels were broken, and the siding on the opposite side of the house got damaged and the front of the wife's car got dinged and scratched up pretty good.

Unbelievable they wouldn't allow you to take it down. Blows my mind that someone would be so stubborn about a dead tree.

 

[Haywire]

 

[Lee192233]

Ur square file should be there Monday according to tracking buddy , get ready lol ,you might like of these to View attachment 1248599

Awesome and thank you! Just what my wife wanted, me spending more time in the shop.

 

[dboyd351]

Oh, well in that case I'd sit on it for a bit and see what the market does but I'm risk adverse. Your going to make a killer profit any way you look at it.

If he sells the lot a good profit is pretty much guarenteed, given what he paid and the Zillow prices.
But if he built a house and the marked turned around in the meantime it is possible to get badly burned. Anyone who was in the market from 2005-2008 can tell you that. My house tripled in value between 1999 and 2006. Then between 2006 and 2008 the market suddenly tanked. Lots of prooerties lost 50% of their narket value in those 2 years.
A real estate speculator bought a waterfront lot here for $250k thinking he would flip it and make an easy 100k or so because the market was so hot.
Then the market tanked when interest rates soared and many people were"upside down" on their mortgage - owing more on the mortgage than theh the house would sell for. Lots of foreclosures.
The dude with the $250k lot sold it a couple of years after that for $125k - so much for the guarenteed profit and making a big killing.
Happened in the FL keys, here in VA and over much of the country, with the runup in prices from 200-2006, then a big crash in 2007/2008.
Happened before, it can happen again.

 

[JimR]

this is one of the trees I went to war with the neighbor about years ago. Finally came over in the wind today. The neighbors daughter and wife stopped by when we were getting the tree (s, technically 2 trees.) off the roof.
Imagine this, now I magically have permission to take all the trees down that border my house on their property. Insurance puke is supposed to stop by tomorrow morning. Should be interesting.
The little roof took the bulk of the damage, 5 or 6 solar panels were broken, and the siding on the opposite side of the house got damaged and the front of the wife's car got dinged and scratched up pretty good.

That really socks. I was the Tree Warden in my town for 13 years. I heard that if a homeowner sends a certified letter to an abutter about dangerous trees that they could be liable for issues like this if they refused to remove them.

 

[MechanicMatt]

That sucks Sean

But…..

What’s under the hood???

Hopefully talking engines will distract you from that bull **** your neighbor let fall into your life

 

[sean donato]

Unbelievable they wouldn't allow you to take it down. Blows my mind that someone would be so stubborn about a dead tree.

yep, I don't get it either. All 100% preventable.

That really socks. I was the Tree Warden in my town for 13 years. I heard that if a homeowner sends a certified letter to an abutter about dangerous trees that they could be liable for issues like this if they refused to remove them.

It's a bit more involved then just one certified letter, but that's the gist of it. Which I did a little over 10 years ago now.
Basically, my insurance company will pay for it, then sue their insurance compan since they received written notice about the hazard tree (s). To be a bit more specific, 2 certified letters, and one hand delivered by the sherif.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Any “Star Wars” fans out there?

They’d get the reference

 

[sean donato]

That sucks Sean

But…..

What’s under the hood???

Hopefully talking engines will distract you from that bull **** your neighbor let fall into your life
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thanks Matt, happy to babble about the 79. Has a 12 valve cummins in it. Want the run down on the bits in it? List is kinda long

 

[benz66]

The Forest Service finally let my volunteer organization go check access to our adopted foot trail along the river. They gave me a permit to be in a closed area, this is the first they would allow it. Some might remember we had a crazy winter two years back, that road had been impassable ever since. A crew cleared it two months ago, but the FS closed it again ahead of forecast storms, in anticipation of more landslides. Sure enough, more rocks and dirt did come down. Me and one other went in and worked on the road yesterday. We worked on the slide area enough to drive through. Most of the rocks were small enough that we could throw them to the side or carry them. Quite a few we were able to roll out of the way. About 5 or 6 rocks were too big for the two of us to move any distance. We used a chain to drag them behind my Travelall one at a time, almost to the small creek. The road is wide there and a sharp turn, so we could get the rocks to the edge of the road.

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The hillside above the big slide still looks unstable and I expect more rock and mud to come down in a good rain. That would trap people in there, and is the reason for the closure.

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Once the big slide was passable, we drove up to the end for a quick look. On the way back we moved small rocks from a few small slides and further trimmed 4 trees that were still partially in the road .

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There was also a couple little mud holes. Those tracks are ours, no one else had been through.

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Our volunteers have been eager to get in there, maybe next weekend we can start on the foot trail.

Nice to see a REAL truck, in its natural habitat. Thanks for preserving a classic!

 

[Squareground3691]

this is one of the trees I went to war with the neighbor about years ago. Finally came over in the wind today. The neighbors daughter and wife stopped by when we were getting the tree (s, technically 2 trees.) off the roof.
Imagine this, now I magically have permission to take all the trees down that border my house on their property. Insurance puke is supposed to stop by tomorrow morning. Should be interesting.
The little roof took the bulk of the damage, 5 or 6 solar panels were broken, and the siding on the opposite side of the house got damaged and the front of the wife's car got dinged and scratched up pretty good.

Sorry Sean, doesn’t get much worse than having a-hole neighbors, try to do preventative maintenance, been down that road ,

 

[diver64]

If he sells the lot a good profit is pretty much guarenteed, given what he paid and the Zillow prices.
But if he built a house and the marked turned around in the meantime it is possible to get badly burned. Anyone who was in the market from 2005-2008 can tell you that. My house tripled in value between 1999 and 2006. Then between 2006 and 2008 the market suddenly tanked. Lots of prooerties lost 50% of their narket value in those 2 years.
A real estate speculator bought a waterfront lot here for $250k thinking he would flip it and make an easy 100k or so because the market was so hot.
Then the market tanked when interest rates soared and many people were"upside down" on their mortgage - owing more on the mortgage than theh the house would sell for. Lots of foreclosures.
The dude with the $250k lot sold it a couple of years after that for $125k - so much for the guarenteed profit and making a big killing.
Happened in the FL keys, here in VA and over much of the country, with the runup in prices from 200-2006, then a big crash in 2007/2008.
Happened before, it can happen again.

Sure it can happen again as my previous post pointed out. The comment you are referencing with your post was not saying it couldn't happen again but that if it does he is not going to be out much. In fact, I doubt the lot will ever be worth less than $1,000 if there are houses built around it already. He is pretty much guaranteed to get his initial investment back. The amount of profit is what is being talked about. As I said, I'd sit on it and see what happened at least until the taxes and other fees came up close to the market value of the lot. I'd most likely get rid of it before that point. If lot's are selling for $8k and I paid $1k for one, I'd wait until my all in cost was nearing, say, $5k and if the market had not increased the value of the lot by then I'd sell it and pocket the $3k considering a 300% profit a pretty good use of my money.

 

[diver64]

Sorry Sean, doesn’t get much worse than having a-hole neighbors, try to do preventative maintenance, been down that road ,

If their tree fell on your house and damaged it wouldn't they be liable since you offered to remove the tree before the storm and they refused?

 

[sean donato]

If their tree fell on your house and damaged it wouldn't they be liable since you offered to remove the tree before the storm and they

In my case yes, they will be liable for the damages. However, you can't just go over and tell them, "that tree needs to go." There's a process that needs followed.

 

[diver64]

In my case yes, they will be liable for the damages. However, you can't just go over and tell them, "that tree needs to go." There's a process that needs followed.

Yeah, there is. This is where talking to neighbors and finding out how unreasonable they are comes in I guess.

 

[JimR]

Yeah, there is. This is where talking to neighbors and finding out how unreasonable they are comes in I guess.

Recently I had an Ash tree removed from aside of my garage. It was just about dead. Behind that tree on the neighbors property was another Ash tree leaning towards my garage and on its way out. I spoke with my neighbor about removing it. He offered to pay the extra $300 to have it dropped. I told him that I would take care of it. That $300 is a $700 savings if that tree fell on my garage roof. I have $1000 deductable.

 

[JimR]

I hauled in the rest of that Ash tree first thing this morning with my logging winch. That is all bucked up and in my woodpile now. The 30 second video that I took won't upload.

 

[Squareground3691]

I hauled in the rest of that Ash tree first thing this morning with my logging winch. That is all bucked up and in my woodpile now. The 30 second video that I took won't upload.

It seems right around 25 seconds is max , without a video server ,

 

[MechanicMatt]

Alright Sean, what’s be the clacking straight 6?

Do you shift her your self or maybe an Allison?

 

[davidwyby]