I feel for you, we have several huge Douglas Fir snags in our lambing area, three have dropped in the last two years in nasty windstorms. The last one took a dormer off of our large barn, the one before that took out the power line to the barn and a gate, the first one took out a large chunk of fencing and a outdoor lamb pen. Three more to go!
They are too big to safely drop with all the buildings (professional arborist with 20 years logging experience’s opinion, not mine!), they are all dead. Once 30-40 feet of length comes down our tree guy will deal with the remainder, usually just for the decent rounds of firewood!
They are too big to safely drop with all the buildings (professional arborist with 20 years logging experience’s opinion, not mine!), they are all dead. Once 30-40 feet of length comes down our tree guy will deal with the remainder, usually just for the decent rounds of firewood!
That alone was a big checkmark on my list. It now makes a huge difference. Once I get the trunks moved (which is too much for me to do solo right now). It will really clean up the view. I took out the other half of the pecan tree that was in the back. I had one pine that had been cut off the base but was being held up, so I had to notch cut it twice to lower it enough so I could have it fall. Cleaned up those two trees and then the only other goal I had was one 25' pine tree that was in the line of pines that will be removed this week. I wanted to clear that one so that they would take out one more pine in the line.
It is truly enjoyable watching them play and run around.
