Goodmorning @MoBilly and the greenroom gang!!
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Good morning @Emeraldgreen and @Terpsnpurps !
Hope you are both enjoying your day!
The day is going to be soggy up this way! We absolutely needed it though.
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Its been raining here also… 2 days now
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I’ve always liked rainy days. Back when I was a kid and stayed with Grandpa back in WV the air smelled nasty due to the sulphur in the creek down behind his place. The only time you couldn’t smell it was during and after a good rain. I came to really look forward to that.
Sitting beside Grandpa on the front porch while it rained and listening to all his stories… Great memories there.
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It’s been a bad storming few days here. Governor declared state of emergency in 6 counties over tornado damage, flooding, etc nothing that bad here, glad to say Tired of all the rain, lol even though badly needed after 8 weeks of no rain! We’ve had over 6" here in the Tulsa area. Feel sorry for those hit bad though.
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Tonight is supposed to be intense as far as the rain goes. Rain is good, we just don’t want that high winds along with it.
We still haven’t dropped that dead tree that threatens the goat shelter. I’ve got the dang thing tied up with good solid rope to some healthy trees but the top can still break off. Tied up the way it is, it still stands the chance of taking out the corner of the shelter.
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Hope things go ok for you n the goats, until ya can get that tree down, brother.
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Never ask me about my business. 
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Be safe everyone…stay dry and have an excellent day
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Morning bro. 
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Morning @MoBilly . These are great! Lot of personalities you’re dealing with.
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I know an arborist who could solve that problem for you!
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What a coinkydink. @Oldjoints I watch the Goatfather er Godfather just last night for about the 46th time.
Hope everyone is having a good day.
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Hey @Oldjoints ,
You will appreciate just how many ways this could go wrong. lol
Those bottom ropes are ~ 10’ high.
This could get sketchy just dodging falling crap while I’m cutting. I’ll definitely be wearing my hard hat for this one. I do appreciate the “gravity” of the situation. lol
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I have done much worse trees than that one. That actually looks like it can just be felled. A rope tied 3\4 of the way up in the direction you want using a come-along or a tractor for direction and i am sure it could just be dropped.
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Yep. But it’s leaning toward the goat shelter one direction and two 60’ oaks and the current milking shelter in the other…
I have to take down my milking shelter and drop one or two of those oaks before I can deal with this little guy.
I can’t do that until the new milking area is up and ready. I’d have had it done if my back hadn’t shelled out on me again.
So for now it’s ropes and hope that the top doesn’t break out and level my goat shelter in the high wind.
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If I were still up to the job I’d rig up a block and tackle and guide the thing down slowly so I could swing it out away from the shelter.
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I would have to see exactly the situation. After 45 years of doing trees directly over houses/greenhouses and some 160 ft tall with huge branches spread out that I have to remove a little at a time. That tree is pretty damn simple looking to me. A lot depends on how deep the rot goes and how much of the tree is rotted.
If solid enough the tree could be taken down in pieces from the top down also.
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Yep. Any able bodied person should have no problem. But she’s rotted man. I mean branches falling off the thing so easily it makes a man nervous just walking around it.
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@Oldjoints ! You remind me of them ol fire horses, when they hear the bell go to chompin and dancing in the stalls… rarin to go! You ain’t in no shape to be tree climbin n topping/taking em down!
I was the same damn way, is how I recognize it in you! But I came to realize, dem days be long gone!
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