My uncle asked me during summer to come over to his farm and cut down some trees. It was such a dry summer and autumn that I didn't want to risk starting a fire so I was waiting for winter. Well a week ago we finally got the rain I had been waiting for in the form of a storm they called a polar vortex. It was cold, dumped more than a months worth of rain and wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. This is one of the trees I was supposed to cut down. Oops My farther and I went over there this morning and we cleaned it up without doing any more damage to the stock race. Lucky it didn't hit the cattle crush! We also took down a few more dead standers. My uncle and auntie got some good wood out of them. After lunch we went out and pieced up a big pine tree that had fallen safely in to a paddock, sorry guys no picks, but it was a twin trunk 30" DBH. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ouch! Did it just bend the panel or did it get the bows too? At least they'll get some heat out of the misshap.
One of the bows got tweaked a little. I didn't check to see if the gate still slid freely. The top of the tree was tangled up in the tree on the other side which likely reduced the damage. When I cut it free of the main trunk it just hung there 6' in the air, so I used my pole saw to release the branches that were holding it up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lordy! That looks like some tough paneling. That tree would of absolutely flattened ours. Sturdy looking crush gate too.
