My neighbors tree fell over…

[Hartinez]

And almost nothing bad happened.

I had been looking at his dead cottonwood all summer. Thinking of offering a some pitching to help Mitigate the cost of removal, worried if it did fall it would ruin, his, mine, or both of our houses. And less important but still Important, crush my trees.

Well it fell and it damaged almost nothing. The power surged, went out and came back on in a few seconds. The wall wasn’t damaged and mostly caught the trees branches. Several very large logs fell around some big trees if mine with zero damage.

Feeling very lucky nothing bad happened.

 

[Hartinez]

You can see it looming the background of this pic

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

Well, that's a blessing! Glad both homes came out unscathed. Sounds like a lot of firewood; should already be seasoned.

 

[Hartinez]

Was not a small tree. Feeling very grateful for the outcome. Also, my neighbor conveniently doesn’t have to pay the thousands of dollars to bring it down carefully.

 

[Hartinez]

Hey @Dav4 I imagine you were having PTSD seeing this post. Sooooo grateful the incident was un eventful

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

You got lucky, fortunate outcome.

 

[Dav4]

Hey @Dav4 I imagine you were having PTSD seeing this post. Sooooo grateful the incident was un eventful

Yeah, I read the title and my heart dropped. I'm really glad your outcome was better than mine.

 

[Maros]

Lucky you. That tree is massive; it could have caused a lot more damage. Personally, would curse as a sailor at my neighbour being it were my situation.

 

[Michael P]

That cottonwood was a widow maker.

 

[Hartinez]

Lucky you. That tree is massive; it could have caused a lot more damage. Personally, would curse as a sailor at my neighbour being it were my situation.

To be fair to my neighbor. This tree was alive all last year and to start the spring. He had an arborist out and everything who said it would be ok. But then again, cottonwoods are notoriously soft and weak trees.

Just look at this “root system” almost non existent. Whatever growth it pushed must’ve been reserves.

 

[Michael P]

Tree postmortem: Did your neighbor build that raised bed and cover the root flare?

 

[Hartinez]

Not sure

Tree postmortem: Did your neighbor build that raised bed and cover the root flare?

 

[Michael P]

If so it could be the cause of the blow over.

 

[namnhi]

The tree looks dead... Wonder why he did have it cut down. Am so glad no one got hurt and no tree got damaged.