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paulz
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2024 12:03pm
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You’ve probably heard about the storm that hit the west coast. You other NA folks probably yawned, but for us bathing suit wearing, lollipop sucking weenies it was quite the event. I spent it at my city place to avoid the trouble. Still my awning blew down and just missed my hot rod. Winds were well over 100 they said.
Back at the cabin now. Branches everywhere, including one through the cabin roof. Just missed a skylight and the stove pipe. A new shingle and some interior trim should do it.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2024 12:35pm
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Well Paul, all that drama and you just get a goofy spear.....
SO Glad you are Ok!
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paulz
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2024 01:26pm
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The main focus was LA area and SoCal, I’m way north, past San Francisco. Still, our volunteer fire dept. had a busy night, couple accidents, trees blocking roads.. Only one fire.
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909
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2024 05:43pm
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Sorry to hear about the branch. On the bright side it could have been much worse.
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spencerin
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2024 08:22pm
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I'm sorry, Paul. I hope it's not a pita repair. It's good that the damage wasn't worse, and that no one was injured, too.
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ICC
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# Posted: 6 Feb 2024 10:24pm - Edited by: ICC
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Sometimes retreat is a very wise move. I'm glad you are okay, glad the hotrod escaped, and too bad about the roof. But, it could have been worse.
I'm remotely watching the temperatures drop at home and see there is a storm warning with a 100% chance of snow and 25 degrees overnight with a drop to 6 F over a couple of days.
Meanwhile, here in Baja, it was 76 this afternoon, 71 now and dinner was fresh fish on the patio. Slight clouds.
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2024 01:12am
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Paul, is it time for a metal roof?
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paulz
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2024 07:56am
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Thanks for the well wishes guys. Yup, could have been much worse. I haven’t followed the news, too busy cleaning up. Floods, mud slides, power outages I expect.
One of the seasoned firemen was telling me about the Redwood forest I am in. They don’t tend to fall over, instead they drop limbs (he calls them spears), such as what went through my roof, and the other hundred on the ground I’m chopping up now. I guess it’s because they grow straight up, no large branches going in off directions.
Metal roof? Hmm, not a bad idea if these “Pineapple Express†storms keep happening. Got 10+ years out of this one. Probably have to hire it out, which I’ve never done for anything. Getting too old and weak for that much of a job anymore.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2024 10:29am
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Considering that CAT 6 Hurricanes are now on the books and soon F6 Tornadoes too, times are a changing... West Coast gets heavy rains & winds while East Coast gets 5 Feet of snow...
Interesting Times indeed.
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2024 10:42am
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We're finally out of the - 40 temperatures. Lots of snow around which means moose are cruising around the house daily. Finally warming up and we got up to 22 above. But it hasn't been too bad. Except roofs on buildings are starting to collapse from too much snow. Eh, guess we'll have that
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 May 2024 09:04pm - Edited by: paulz
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Just ran across this photo (sorry, just lying around recovering).
A friends kid bought a house a few years ago, this perfect Tuff Shed was in the back yard in the way of a remodel. Would I like it? You betcha, so I trailored it to the property, set it up and filled with extra cabin materials.
So after last brutal winter, I came out to see this almost fallen tree. No big deal, but as you can see the shed is in direct path underneath, only thing that saved it was the tree got pinched between two others.
What to do? It took about a weeek but I gradually cut back the base of that tree, and each time it tilted more vertical, slid down some too but stayed pinched After about 20 feet of that I climbed up there and attached a rope to it at the snag, and was able to pull it down in the opposite direction. Phew, no shed damage!
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 19 May 2024 09:26pm
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Those are a tough and dangerous tree to deal with. We had a similar, but smaller at about 50-60' tall? and nothing underneath so I took my time thinking about it. Ended up doing much like you did. Once it was mostly vert. I laddered up as far as I could and strapped back down to my little JD 1025r (26ish hp) and pulled it backwards.
Id like to say it went all as planned, and the early part did, but on that pull I wasn't fast enough so soon after the top came out it toppled to one side. if I had anticipated that Id have been in high and tromping on it to maintain the pull.
Also, to those thinking to try this....make sure your strap is long enough so you don't pull it down on you 
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 May 2024 10:09pm
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Quoting: gcrank1 your strap is long enough so you don't pull it down on you
Ha, yeah that crossed my mind. Luckily plenty of rope. And plenty of firewood this year.
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ICC
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# Posted: 20 May 2024 12:32am
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Good to hear you are safe
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 20 May 2024 02:28am
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Quoting: paulz What to do?
You got a bulldozer and two backhoes. Just push it down so it falls beside beside your machine.
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paulz
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# Posted: 20 May 2024 02:50am
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Thought about it of course but if it slipped loose from the trees it was trapped against it would have landed on the shed (visible underneath in that photo) . I’m just lucky it hung there long enough to flip up and over. I’ll take a better shot of the spot in the morning.
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paulz
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# Posted: 20 May 2024 09:05pm
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Here’s where that tree was. It went right through those two trees ahead of it. Good thing they ere there, would have crushed the shed. Last thing I needed was to haul that away and relocate all the crap inside.
Funny it fell, looked healthy enough.
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paulz
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2024 03:02pm
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Sheesh, never ends. Noticed this yesterday on the roof of my shop. I don’t recall it being there after the big storms in February but nothing that bad since and it’s a good size spear. Oh well at least just the shop roof, just black plastic roofing. Already patched it with tar.
So that’s one through the cabin roof, three broken solar panels, one through the deck shed roof and this.
Been hearing you guys back east have had some storming lately…
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2024 03:12pm
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I expect our drought/burning ban is over....had about 6" rain in the past week alone.
Skeeters are out in force!
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paulz
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2024 08:10pm - Edited by: paulz
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Ha, one of my old coworkers just moved to Madison last month. From rain soaked Cal to rain soaked Wi. Probably brought it with him..
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2024 10:55pm
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Mad City is about 35mi S of home and the cabin about 45mi north of us. We Much prefer going N!
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