not the way I wanted to scrounge wood

[Bocefus78]

It finally rained here in central indy....80mph winds...heavy rains. The wind took down this ash I planted as a seedling. Crappy pic provided by my neighbor. Good thing he hated his fence lol

 

[Realstone]

Pretty fence just the same. You're right, better ways to scrounge firewood. Takes the 'free' out of the equation.

 

[remkel]

Tornado took Down a sugar maple my pepere planted for my brother when he was borne out ten years ago. Also snapped about 100 other trees on my dad's property. I know your pain.

 

[bogydave]

Ouch.
Free fire wood but lots of work added.
Bet the rain was really\y needed

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I saw the radar yesterday afternoon and it looked bad. Now I see why it looked so bad. Glad it missed us.

 

[BrotherBart]

For 27 years when we would come up our long winding driveway we would note the progress of a Tulip Poplar that was a seedling the first time we took a walk in the evening after moving in. Sucker was getting on up there. Came home one day and there was just a stump. Power line crew.

 

[Realstone]

For 27 years when we would come up our long winding driveway we would note the progress of a Tulip Poplar that was a seedling the first time we took a walk in the evening after moving in. Sucker was getting on up there. Came home one day and there was just a stump. Power line crew.

Power lines get strung two feet off the ground in N Virginia?

 

[BrotherBart]

Power lines get strung two feet off the ground in N Virginia?

Obviously you haven't ever seen how fast a Tulip Poplar grows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera

 

[Realstone]

Obviously you haven't ever seen how fast a Tulip Poplar grows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera

Um well, I was wondering why they had to cut it so close to the ground.

 

[BrotherBart]

Um well, I was wondering why they had to cut it so close to the ground.

They whack anything withing fifteen feet of the lines on either side. Can't blame'em. They would just have to keep trimming and trimming it for years. With the Poplar if they had topped it it would have died anyway. I fully understood why they did it. It was just sad.

 

[Realstone]

They whack anything withing fifteen feet of the lines on either side. Can't blame'em. They would just have to keep trimming and trimming it for years. With the Poplar if they had topped it it would have died anyway. I fully understood why they did it. It was just sad.

Hmm. Must be no shortage of firewood down there. Just follow these guys:

 

[osagebow]

Sorry ya lost that ash, bocefus. We got hammered pretty bad down here in the valley, BBart. I was lucky but lotsa trees down near me, plenty of areas without power still.Saw y'all in NoVa were lit up even more on the radar last night.