Lost my tree . . . while in use.

[Shnick]

Wow, glad youre ok, take some pics and send them to Hennessy... LOL

[old4hats]

grannypat, as one who sleeps out in the yard each night, I occasionally have such thoughts as, what if this tree fell?, and, where would it fall?, ect. and then turn off my imagination and go to sleep. Your experience brings this to clear reality. I am so glad you are alright and unhurt, and for what it is worth, I am checking around my hanging ground and making sure that I see nothing amiss. God bless you, and keep hanging!

[Arothian]

Wow that is crazy! Glad to know you are OK and it missed the house.

[Roadrunnr72]

I have hung off big and small trees, and have never really given a thought to the tree falling, but will now.

As for playing the lottery, you may have just used up you limit of luck for the week.

Glad the only thing hurt was the suspension of your hammock.

[peanuts]

yikes!!! glad you walked out unscathed. turtle stand??
angels were really looking out for you.

[MrClean417]

Time to call and arborist. Oaks are bad at having rot set in at the base. It'll bring an ancient one down. The clues are there if you know what to look for and your arborist will be able to scope it out for you. You don't want to be hanging out under the other one only to find it's suffering from the same, soon to come fate.

Younger trees (smaller) also have the lovely trait of having little branches all the way up. Hard to be killed when the widowmaker is only as thick as your finger while a 3 incher can leave a pretty good dent in your knoggin. Still, they are easier to see up into. But I face facts, I live on the Kansas Boarder. I usually take whatever tree I can get. It's really not that bad here on the East side of Kansas but when I went to college 30 years ago I brought a friend home to explore Topeka (the capital) and from Salina on East he just couldn't get over the number and height and variety of all the trees. Anything over 3 feet in Western Kansas generally goes down the custom cutters along with the rest of the wheat. You get a couple of trees planted around the house and that's about all she wrote.

That was years ago, but even a fast growing Cottonwood won't be over 50 feet yet, and man do those things shed limbs.

[DemostiX]

Ive seen pictures of someone's suspension connected to a few very small bendable trees at one end. The load was distributed among the trees and it worked. The benefit being that a small tree may not kill you!

Might have been mine, here:

[lattie11581]

WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad you are OK but while you're luck is running get down to the local store and buy a bunch of lottery tickets!!!!!

YES BUY LOTTO

Thank god you're ok

[fly-chucker]

glad you're OK

glad it wasn't me, or my wife would be giving me crap about losing some weight

[nothermark]

Glad to see you are here to tell folks about your adventure! It was a "good" one. ;-)