The Home Ownership Thread

[PhilKenSebben]

I believe @Van Veen 's support group has space still

We always have room for one more. Join us!

 

[Omega Male]

Big brain time at the Journal.

 

[beargonefishing]

Big brain time at the Journal.

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$965k all cash. The secret is out, bring on the bull housing market.

 

[double00]

Big brain time at the Journal.

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[brokencycle]

Big brain time at the Journal.

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Almost as good as an article about how to pay off student loans faster: 1. Take fewer student loans

 

[Van Veen]

We always have room for one more. Join us!

my next thrilling project is having a few trees pruned so they stop dropping a dump truck's worth of leaves on my roof every fall. by the time i'm retired maybe i'll be able to do a project that actually improves the house.

 

[double00]

my next thrilling project is having a few trees pruned so they stop dropping a dump truck's worth of leaves on my roof every fall. by the time i'm retired maybe i'll be able to do a project that actually improves the house.

hm pruning is great for tree health but is just gonna stimulate new growth and i don't think will be a solution here . why not just get rid of the problem trees

 

[Van Veen]

hm pruning is great for tree health but stimulates new growth and i don't think it will be a solution here . why not just get rid of the problem trees

it's more getting rid of the branches that are extending over the roof. specifically i have an oak that is forked into 3 main stems, 2 of which are over the roof. arborist said they'd remove those 2. "structural pruning"

though i have considered getting rid of it considering how close it is to the house.

 

[SixOhNine]

Given your history, have you considered getting rid of the house and just living in the tree?

 

[nootje]

It’s probably structurally more sound too.

but realistically, I’d have a lumberjack cut the whole thing down. If it has split in three the remaining one will be weakened either way, and might come down in a storm. Even though I look forward to another Van Veen homeownership saga, this one could be preventable.

 

[Joffrey]

Why are you all pro tree murder?

 

[lefty]

Any tree down with me still standing is a win. Some wins are better than others though.

I almost killed myself the other day. Again.

There were three 80’ trees to knock down for next year’s firewood. The first two dropped exactly where I aimed, The third needed to be redirected against its lean. I cut too shallow a notch and then made the mistake of miscalculating the plunge cut, putting one side below the hinge. Now the tree had no leverage or weight to bring it over.

In retrospect, I should have recut the notch dropping it below the back cut, but instead I thought I could wedge it over. Bad idea. Despite having six doubled wedges in and getting the tree to move in the right direction, there was no way I could counterbalance the weight of the tree. I was screwed. Bad hinge and wedges holding it up … it could give at any time. I decided that the only way to get it down was to wrap a logging chain around the trunk as high up as I could reach—about 10 feet standing on a log —and then attach a come-along and pull it over. I began to get some movement and then realized that I was basically pulling it directly at me. And then it got hung in a nearby tree.

Reassess.

The hang meant that it now had to roll off the stump making it even more dangerous. I left solid tension on the chain, then went behind the tree on the upside and began to feather away at the hinge with the chainsaw, my eyes locked onto the trunk looking for the least bit of movement. It finally gave and I backed way off and watched it roll in the way I hoped. It finally fell about six feet from where I originally wanted.

I went and laid down after that.

lefty

 

[Omega Male]

Cali-fall-ia.

 

[sugarbutch]

Cali-fall-ia.

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Must be one helluva job for Omega Female to give that up...

 

[Omega Male]

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