Glad you were ok. It was crazy windy here in Texas this weekend. I saw a metal mast my local ham radio club used for an antenna sheer off (it was 12 stories up) but still must have been windy up there.
Glad you were ok. It was crazy windy here in Texas this weekend. I saw a metal mast my local ham radio club used for an antenna sheer off (it was 12 stories up) but still must have been windy up there.
<>< Matthew R. <><
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Helotes, Texas
"Lighten Your Life And Enlighten Your Mind" -M.R.
Thanks, and to everybody. Yeah, it was windy as heck!Originally Posted by matthew2000tx
Shug, when I was reading the replies last nigh, I was listening to a podcast on HYOH. YOU were the interviewee! LoL I thought it a funny coincidence.
Look before you hook. It rolls nicely Maybe that should be embroidered along all straps/huggers on both sides! LOL
This ain't no joke. I was climbing out at Enchanted Rock over the weekend and it was essentially as windy as a tropical storm out there. I'm sure alot of the widowmakers that are all over the park probably fell. It's hard to find a good spot to hang there.
You got that right. A friend of mine was killed a few years back while he was collecting firewood in the woods behind his house. Apparently a large limb broke off of a pine tree that he was standing under and hit him in the head, killing him instantly. His name was John, and he was a fine bluegrass guitar player and singer.This ain't no joke.
Sorry about your friend John, BanjoPicker.
Here in the Piney Woods of East Texas, it's not terribly uncommon to read of a falling tree impaling or crushing someone traveling in a car during a storm.
I use a few signs. Bark that is sloughing off or cracking, branches that are broken off at the tip, tips of branches on the ground around the tree, stains running down the trunk where sap has run out and dried. Around me, all of the ash have died from the ash borer. I can recognize the bark, and avoid them all. For these ash, there are also often 'volunteers' right next to the trunk that are easy to spot in low light.
We have big, strong trees here, but in the winter, those branches can load up with snow. I'm not so much worried about branches coming down as I am a ... bunch load of snow. So in the winter I look for trees a little further apart than usual. That usually means I have to dig out snow between them to get a good hang angle.
Much of my camping is done here locally on privately owned property.I have had to change spots because of numerous dead trees and also "blowovers" where a live tree gives it up for seemingly no good reason and just falls over.It does not take much of a limb to kill you as I watched a small limb go thru the roof of my house and bust on thru into the living space once on a Friday the 13th,not that the date mattered but I quit having work done like that on Fridays.....
I was in Charleston, SC, this year during Hurricane Matthew. There was little rhyme or reason as to which trees went down and which didn't. I at least never could have called it. Same with all the branches that came down. Healthy ones down, dead ones still up. Glad you didn't get hurt. Sometimes you just have to follow your gut feelings.
We just went through a very severe drought this fall and many pines died because of that and one that I like to hang from In my yard was one of the unlucky ones. Once the trees bud out will see the damage to the deciduous trees. I think it is going to be bad as many were wilted very bad before the leaves changed. I will have to be careful for all of the falling trees and limbs for years to come. Almost all of the small sapling pines that did not have very deep roots died 6 ft and smaller are dead. Very sad.
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