So another thing on Thursday. I noticed a branch sticking out over the roof while looking out the window upstairs at the roof to see all the stuff accumulating on the lower side.
Went outside and looked up at the upper roof and holy shit there's an enormous branch that broke out of the neighbor's Norway Maple and it's resting on the house but mostly supported by being caught in the fork of another branch.
Problem is, first the broken end is 8-10" in diameter, second it is 30+ feet long from broken end to the roof, and somewhere close to 30 or so feet up in the air, and 6-8 feet away from the main trunk, IN our neighbor's yard and with the new fence right below it in the drop zone.
Got home Friday night, talked to neighbor, and then went up on the roof to inspect, almost zero damage, just two small dings in the shingle but didn't go through. There were a lot of small branches and they spread the weight out evenly. Ultimately I just started trimming, then was able to gently drop it down to the next roof and then finally it was hanging up above, in the tree.
Got up in the tree (27' ladder fully extended, then me climbing out of the ladder into the tree another 2-3' above the ladder and it was at eye level with me finally, so call it 35-38' up in the air. Managed to secure a loop of webbing around it anchored to the main trunk of the tree incase it decided to fall, at least it wouldn't crash down and smash stuff. It was f'n heavy.
Chainsawed and handsawed as much as I could to remove as much weight as possible, one kind of sketchy move had the chainsaw a wee bit closer to my face than comfortable but no injuries sustained, and left it for the night. Climbing up and down to the ladder in the dark is less scary than in the daylight btw.
But holy shit i was wrecked after all that. Slept like crap partly because I got home and just started in on that on Friday and didn't stop till 9pm and skipped dinner. Ate a few things but not enough, slept like crap, tried to sleep in but that didn't work, went to get a pole saw, got back at it, eventually got it on the ground without damaging the fence or getting hurt in the process. Cut up the branch, filled the leaf barrels full and there's still another couple barrels worth full for yard waste pickup and wrapped up at 4pm totally wiped out.
Then I went for a mt bike ride on Sunday, slept not great but better (thanks naproxen) and Wahoo battery was too dead to turn on so I didn't have actual HR data or the full distance, but wow was that hard, legs and arms and everything was just wrecked but it was good to be out there. And there's no giant branch on the roof still. But somehow I will be recovered for Smackdown tomorrow? I don't know how that's going to work. That said maybe not the worst to miss it. They are headed back to the East Course. Last time they rode it the whole group got pulled over by the RPD because they kept running a stop sign and the neighbor has been calling and complaining every Tuesday since they put in the 4 way stop sign at the Rocky Hill/Homestead intersection. It used to be only stop signs on Rocky Hill, but now, well. This current group of cyclists are a bit leaderless and agro, people are citing the lack of racing and how fast everyone is and how they treat this like a race not a group ride and blah blah blah no one wants to attempt to reign them in or set some ground rules. It becomes a question of if I want to ride with them or not because of all this. That said there's a pretty good chance of rain tomorrow, and I'm not keen on riding in the rain on the road bike right now. Commute? no problem. Maybe the weather will make the choice for me tomorrow afternoon. It is also going to be hot AF again tomorrow.
Tuesday are now the hot days?
Well we'll see. Just gotta keep plugging along or something.
Amor Fati Motherfuckers
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