I just received this email from Andy:
Will be late-no clouds. High winds. Will send on my way again when finished with any new tree. 3:52
Yes, the dead trees are still falling across the roads when the winds blow. But it shouldn’t be as bad as described in this October, 2014 post:
It’s now been over three years since the fire, and the smaller trees are starting to fall down when it’s windy. Andy encountered them in four places on the way home yesterday. In the first three spots he cut them enough so he could drive around them.
Trees at First Spot — Before
Trees at First Spot — After
Trees at Second Spot — Before
Trees at Second Spot — After
Trees at Third Spot — Before
At Third Spot — After
But when he came to the fourth place, he had the option of coming back on another road, so he took it. It was time to come home.
Trees at the Fourth Spot
Needless to say, he expects to do more sawing today.
Yes, there’s never a dull moment up there! Fingers crossed for him. As I said, it shouldn’t be nearly as bad now.
November 5, 2018
ohmygosh.
what if the last ones fell while onto his truck while he was driving?
not a good thing at all! there are still many left to fall.
too bad an area on each side of the road can’t be cleared so there would be nothing to fall across it as a hazard. but the county would never afford that.
I know it would cost far too much. but the timber has seasoned. I wonder if a company in the firewood business would be interested in the removal just to keep the wood they cleared? but then that’s a foolish question. it has already burned! just grabbing at straws here. and anyway… if ‘they’ did it Andy would have nothing to work on up there! 😀
So far he’s been lucky, but a couple of people have been killed by falling trees.
He was lucky coming home, no new trees across the road. He had to work on three going up — one small, one medium, one large. But better then than on the way home.
He stayed late today because the sky was clear and he wanted to make some measurements near sunset on the solar water panels. He will use this data in designing an on/off controller for the heating system. Busy fellow!
That looks like a very frustrating drive and a lot of work too.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
A lot of work, but he’s patient and he loves it up there.
definitely not a job for the faint hearted – hope Andy is doing things at “amble space” rather than “gang ho” of yester years…
when it’s windy here, I’m forever picking up “dead” cabbage tree fronds – that blow over from next door onto driveway and then onto the grassed edge…which in turn will wrap around Lawncare’s machinery… today I redropped them over the fence into the gap they never go into other than putting their own grass clippings – about a foot between their outdoor shed/fence area – so they would never probably see the decaying piles I biff back…
Yes, he’s taking it easy. Everything takes a lot longer than it used to, for both of us! The wind was howling up there today, he says. The pussy willow was completely protected by a net, but the wind blew it off and down the hill.