Goodbye.....

Dave H (MI) · Mar 1, 2018

...to my Ford Escape, Super MTA, IH TD-6. And goodbye to the 2' diameter box elder tree that just heeled over from the weight of the snow and fell on all three. Don't know how much damage. The tree landed on the roof of the crawler. Lot of branches hit the car. Good chance my nice straight SMTA has a dented hood or gas tank, but the crawler was next to it and is carrying the tree for now. I had just opened the garage door and noticed the branches on the tree seemed a tad low but chalked it up to sagging under the snow. Had to walk down to the end of the road and try to push my wife's car out of a snow bank. Got ticked off at her and walked back up to jump the SMTA to see can I pull her out. Wasn't gone five minutes and that fool tree had come down and was laying on all my stuff. Nothing to do but wait out the snow and then drive out to the farm and get the chain saw. That's the only tractors I keep here and neither is going anywhere until the tree is gone. Also took out the fence at the top of the driveway and probably damaged the house and shed but who can tell at this point?

My weekend just went in the dumper quick.

JDIH · Mar 1, 2018

It might not be too bad. Those old tractors were made of heavy steel.

rrlund · Mar 1, 2018

That snow just Barely missed us. I went to Ionia right after dinner. About a mile south of the county line,the road started getting damp and there were a few flurries. By the time I got into Ionia,it was really coming down.

I had a willow tree come down in the wind in the middle of the day a few years ago. Went right down across the truck and stock trailer. The squeeze chute was between the tree and the truck and took the brunt of the weight. All that was damaged except for the palpation cage on the chute being a little bent,was a lens on one clearance light on the trailer was knocked off. It popped right back.

centash · Mar 1, 2018

Hope it didn't break the exhaust manifold. A few dents adds character to an old tractor, unless it just got new paint.
Ben

Steve@Advance · Mar 1, 2018

So long as you didn't drop the pizza!

Goose · Mar 1, 2018

When I was doing real estate inspections, I had an order for an Interior/Exterior inspection on a particular house.

When I called the lady who owned it to make an appointment, she said she wasn't living in the house right then. She'd closed on the house and five days later a tree fell over on it.

Wouldn't that unplug your coffee pot?

crooked rows · Mar 1, 2018

The Super MTA looks like is damaged beyond repair.......I'll give you scrap price for it.....

Dave H (MI) · Mar 1, 2018

Well...I can't tell how bad the SMTA is yet but I don't think it is nearly as bad as it could be. My car will be scratched, but I can't really tell that it did any major damage to it either. This is a very large box elder tree. If you look behind the SMTA you can see the canopy on the crawler. It's a homemade affair and I was planning on cutting it off and scrapping it. The rust goes clear thru a couple of the four tubular steel posts that support the diamond tread flat steel roof. Nonetheless, the entire giant tree is being held up by that lousy roof...bless it. The fence at the top of the driveway needs serious repair. If I had my saw here I would be well on my way to cleaning that out. Just got the wife's car up the road and into the bottom of the driveway. Snowblower sheared a bolt. I heard an even bigger tree come down up in the woods while I was out there but THAT is his problem.

Anyway, nobody got hurt and everyone is locked in for the night. Tomorrow the fun starts.

Ken Christopherson · Mar 1, 2018

Happened to my grandpa in the 1980's as well.. Only there were about 6 tress down because of straight line winds... The 1941 Case SC was buried, but luckily very minimal damage. Dented gas tank was about it. Hope everything comes out ok.

RBoots · Mar 1, 2018

Hey crooked rows, I thought you were a JD guy!

RBoots · Mar 1, 2018

Good luck with it Dave, be careful working under that mess. That's when it's real nice to have a pole saw, so you can stay a little farther out of the way.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 1, 2018

I do have a pole saw. Thats out in the garage at the farm too. We have no woodlot on this property and lots of trees over there, sooooo....

Just made sense to leave the saws there.

RBoots · Mar 1, 2018

Just be careful out there Dave, think about the reaction of every action you make.

tlock0331 · Mar 1, 2018

man that does suck....i hate to see that. I had a straight line wind break a piss_elm and brought it down on the excavator, broke the exhaust manifold and the water inlet, the other tree took down the power lines to the shop....

At least tomorrow is friday??

gab · Mar 1, 2018

Wonder if you got the snow I was supposed to get, was supposed to be about five in., then one to three, then one and it was a bright sunshining beautiful day, even my attack cats took the day off.

NEKS · Mar 1, 2018

I had my share of ice. This was in 2006

Ande · Mar 1, 2018

Yes, I can relate, this "L" Case was straight, but this big old Cottonwood did a number on her also.

SweetFeet · Mar 2, 2018

Dave H (MI),

Well, that's a bummer! Be safe in your cleanup job.

We had a summer storm take down a big ol' locust one night. The snap and crash could wake the dead.
Punched a hole in our garage roof. Smashed out then 4 year old son's bike that he left laying about, bent the swing set... and knocked our LP tank on its side - fortunately the gas line did not rupture (could have been a lot louder sounds then).

Spook · Mar 2, 2018

(quoted from post at 19:56:35 03/01/18) Wonder if you got the snow I was supposed to get, was supposed to be about five in., then one to three, then one and it was a bright sunshining beautiful day, even my attack cats took the day off.

Cat pics are cool. But you apparently cannot use the word pus__y here... unfortunate

crooked rows · Mar 2, 2018

Just trying to help out Dave .........

flembo · Mar 2, 2018

I was trying to figure out how to get that one in good one LOL.

Brian G. NY · Mar 2, 2018

I'm guessing this one is a Maine Coon cat?

I have a yaller one like him....big!

Robert Major · Mar 2, 2018

Scrap price is still the same per pound whether it's red or green. Personal preference here would be I'd scrap the green one before a red though L.O.L
Regards Robert

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