Oops. That oak tree insisted on going south when I cut it down. It made a big dent in the tractor shed roof.

Roof damage

It broke off the end of one roof truss. But the main truss and the plate it is sitting on are undamaged. So it’s fixable, and not so bad meanwhile.

Broken roof truss end

Here’s the tree that did it. And many of the grapevines and greenbriars (Smilax) that were the reason for cutting it down.

The culprit oak tree

We have to have a firebreak around the tractor shed, especially with all the deadfall from Hurricane Helene ready to flare up when we burn the woods this winter. The vines on this tree were so thick the only way I could get them down was to take the tree down. It had already had all its tallest limbs and trunk broken off by the hurricane.

There were far more vines; I mowed most of them up with the tractor mower after I used a logging chain to pull them and those pieces of the tree away from the tractor shed.

-jsq

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