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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:06 am Post subject: |
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Timberrrrrrrrr.
Well I suppose the tunnel through it didn't help its structural integrity.
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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That's sad but hardly surprising.
We woke up to some storm damage of our own yesterday. One of our Scot's pines has snapped off at the top and is hanging by a thread over OH's shed.
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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We lost a large Chestnut tree Christmas eve, top snapped off, Lost top of Macrocarpa yesterday and Big bow split on Salix alba. and that was not a big storm.
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Your gardens are falling apart......
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your sympathy T.
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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Sympathy is in the post and as for the tree oooohhh errrrrr.
_________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
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Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 1204 Location: Dublin
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Best to get it down before it gets pulled off by another storm
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but the question is - how?! I've spoken to the friend who's husband sorted the other trees. I trust him.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Lassoo and pull ! !
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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That wire across the front could be a problem, DO NOT LASOO AND PULL.
You are going to need a climber to do it safely afraid this will cost you money. If you pull it will have some weight and you have no control over where it will fall. Hire a hoist and get up into it then take it down bit by bit.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Oops i didnt see that wire
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Ado 2 wrote: | Lassoo and pull ! ! | Not just the wire (phone line) but,just out of shot a catinery (?) wire carrying power to shed and tea house/stream, not to mention OH's shed.
Just over a year ago an old friend of ours lost her son to such a tree, when he was working - with all the right gear, on clearing a part-fallen tree. Things didn't go as planned and the thing swung round and killed him.
No, we will definitely be leaving that to someone who knows what they are doing!!!
It looks so innocent and almost weighless swinging gentley in the breeze, but it ain't.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Sorry you are right. It does look innocent. I am sorry to hear about your friends son. I shall think before I write again. Bedt of luck with it
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