I lost 15 trees, mostly 20' evergreens up by the house, those are all out and burned. I had about a mile and half of fence row with downed trees of various sizes, all trees are off fences and out of fields and burnt. I have not started on my timber, but probably have 50 good sized trees to clean up, some are 4' diameter cotton woods. I have all the downed cherry from the fence rows up by the shop. There is probably 75,000 pounds of various sizes and quality logs out. I probably have another 25'000 pounds to get out of timber.
I hired an excavator to come in and clear big stuff out of fence rows. He did a good job, came in under 30 hours and reasonably priced. It cost me 1/4 of this in repairs to the skid steer I borrowed, when I got lines caught and bent them. It will cost me right at $5000 for storm cleanup, not what I wanted to spend, but not bad considering what happened.
I hope to get some tiling done yet.
I hired an excavator to come in and clear big stuff out of fence rows. He did a good job, came in under 30 hours and reasonably priced. It cost me 1/4 of this in repairs to the skid steer I borrowed, when I got lines caught and bent them. It will cost me right at $5000 for storm cleanup, not what I wanted to spend, but not bad considering what happened.
I hope to get some tiling done yet.
