Posted by Greg1959 on December 29, 2014 at 13:00:47 from (69.176.46.42):
Decided since it was a cloudy, muddy, windy day with temps around 40F that I would cut some trees down around one of my pole barns.
This pole barn (28X60) started out as a farrowing barn for some pigs. Built it in 1997. The bottom fell out of the hog market in a few months, so converted it to square hay bale storage.
Anyway, first tree I decided to cut was a cherry about 30 inches in diameter. Cut the wedge out in the rough idea I thought I could get it to fell. Made a cut on the back side and installed wedge blocks to help aim it the way I wanted it to fall.
As cutting towards the center of the tree to fell it, I heard some of the trunk cracking and and noticed it started to lean in the direction I had intended.
In slow motion, the tree started to twist and lean towards the electric drop heading for the mast. Luckily, I had the power killed to this barn. Continuing in slow motion, it twisted further to miss the electric drop and fell smack dab onto the crest of my pole barn. Crushed about a third of it.
Got most of it cleaned up except for the tree tops down in the barn with the twisted metal roof.
Shyt happens. All I could do was stand there and watch this scenario unfold. Oh well, it'll give me something to work on next spring.
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