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Recovering from a Nasty fall in the backyard ..-- We just had a MONSOON like Microburst storm with 60- 70 mph winds , 3 -4 inches of rain in 15 min with quartersize hail and cloud to ground lightning
it brought down some tremendous size tree branches . I have one HUGE poplar about 135 ft high. it "rained" many good size branches BUT one probably was 40 ft long weighed i'd guess 300lbs .
Like a damn fool i'm out there trying to move this monster. When i tried to turn it over a branch i was holding snapped in the rain and wind and i fell violently backwards cracked my back on the trunk of the branch ( a tree in itself ) fell on my head backwards in a huge pool of water . I was Stunned and couldn't move --it scared the shit outta me
I came to my senses got up with the help of my wife and grandson and am OK just just a mite sore nothing broken. Gonna need a chainsaw on this Beoch
Wishing I got more sleep last night... cursing the very uncomfortable mattress... wondering why my kids insist upon waking no later than 6:30AM...
... wondering why my kids insist upon waking no later than 6:30AM...
Just in from cleaning up the war zone created by the micro burst storm t. The debris pile is 50 ft long and about 6 ft high
3 of us Been cutting/stacking downed huge tree limbs for a couple of hrs .One of our local parks got hit very hard so city crews will be busy for a while befor ethey get to picking up my debris
Cut them all by hand saw !!!!!!! my wife told me i'm nuts -- she's probably right BUT it's pretty good work out for the upper body ( I see 50 more yds outta my Ping G5 driver later today )
My arms are tired after a day of woodcutting too, but it's usually because I've been through a cord and a half or so with a Husky 372xp. Still split everything by hand.