Thursday lunchtime I heard a big noise outside the house but didn't think much of it until the lad from across the road knocked the door to say..

"Your tree has fallen over and blocked the road" !!!!!!!!!!

Sure enough about a third of the beech had split away and fallen all the way across the road, missing my Audi by inches. I get on the phone to TWBC & then KCC Highway Dept who sent a work crew. This was a photo after they had sorted out the part of the tree on the road



They then looked at the remaining parts of the tree and decided it was unsafe and took the rest down. This is all very sad as the tree was over 40 years old and beautiful. I now have a large pile of logs (which is shrinking fast as people with log burns take it away).



[Edited on 28/5/11 by jeffw]

Poor tree.
Giving the logs away?! They're worth a fortune round here! More than coal! In fact, the local plod are asking tree owners to watch out for wood thieves.

Make sure you do your duty and plant several replavements.....


Cut 1 down - Plant 3


linky

can he plant the other 2 in your garden?

We will certainly replant with something suitable. I'm just relieved that no one was hurt, either in a car or walking on the pavement.

Been there done that!

Ours went over in a storm in February. Garage now rebuilt but about to start what I anticpate will be the painful process of arguing with the insurance company about contents values.


Fallen Tree Feb 2011


Garage Remains Feb 2011

The pictures tend not to to convey just how big the tree was..............over 50 feet tall and more than 6 feet in diameter at the base of the trunk.

Like you, just thankful that nobody got hurt. If the tree had fallen at a slightly different angle it would have landed on our bedroom (just out of shot to the left).

Still can't believe that we didn't hear a thing when it went over!

John

Wow....

A living tree is astonishingly heavy... we had a very big willow tree taken down a few years ago (about 2 foot diameter trunk, 40 foot high). The tree man took everything away apart from the stump, which I dug out. That stump was only 4 foot long, but it took 4 big blokes to heave it out of the hole...