We got started

I used to love cutting branches, but now find it too difficult.

The latest windstorm (does it ever stop blowing around here?) only brought down twigs and small branches.... Good luck with the clean up.

I'm glad you are safe from that huge tree limb.

Hope the wood from that cedar branch is going to be put to good use

I still have trees down in the old neighborhood.

That thing is huge, I'm glad it didn't do any more damage than that.

I have been lucky that the tree branches that have gone down, haven't been over/near the house. That's in part because when I was a kid, we had a large branch of a hackberry come down during a storm that hit the house by my folk's room. It didn't damage the house, but apparently gave them both quite a fright. Since I slept in the front of the house, I didn't hear it, but it also woke up my brother. They had a tree service come out and take that tree down and then cable a couple of other trees about the same age, and of the same kind so that they wouldn't hit the house if they came down. However, we did have a dying hackberry on the back fence, right on the edge of my property and the house next door and the apartment complex behind us, that dropped a huge branch during one storm. The people next door had built a 10 foot high chain link fence before they moved out and rented the place. I had a lady who does tree work come and take apart the part of the branch in my yard and take down the other branches of the tree that hung over my yard. A few months later I ran into the daughter of the owner and told her about the branch that the tenants hadn't dealt with, they came over and took care of it, but left the bent fence. Since the branch had been stopped by the 10 foot section, my 4 foot preexisting fence wasn't damaged. About a year later I heard a chain saw and went out back to see someone taking down the tree. I went and asked who had ordered it - mind you, it wasn't in my yard, my fence was just on my side of the tree - he said, in broken English, the apartments. I suspect that while the tree there didn't even over hang the cars, that it did over hang a grassy strip that kids would play in and people walked their dogs. I figured that the residents of the complex were worried and the complex figured it would cheaper to take it down than 1) repair the fence and 2) worry about being sued over the tree. The Arizona Ash that we took down in 2015 had dropped a big branch that hit one of the sheds and did minor damage to the edge of the roof and part of the fencing around the deck - you might remember my posting about upgrading that shed back in 2011. I've also got some minor damage to the house roof on the edge beside the live oak because of limbs hitting it in the wind. My biggest worries about the roof so far in the nearly 34 years I've lived here has been hail.

That’s good it’s off the roof at least!

I take it he has a chain saw. I wish I did.

We had a big branch come down a while ago but I think we're going to take down the whole tree. There is a branch broken off but caught up in the other branches and it's not really safe.

Glad you got that out of the way!

A lot of firewood there.