Our mighty more-than-a-century-old tulip poplar is starting to come down today. The thing is over 90 feet tall and more than 14 feet around the base. I can't begin to imagine how many storms it weathered in the last hundred years. It has survived some pretty good ones in the six years we've been here. But a few years back, Hurricane Ike blew through southern Indiana with 80 mile an hour winds for over five hours, and the old tree didn't fair so well. The trunk has a huge split in it wide enough to see daylight through.
We had a tree guy chain the two parts together, but we knew it was only a temporary fix. This year has been very stormy. When the leaves fell this season, I was driving up from the west (not my usual route) and was horrified to see how bad the split had become even with the chain. Thankfully, it didn't come down on us or our neighbors before we could take care of it in a safer manner.
Here are a couple of photos from today. I'll update as the work progresses.
We had a tree guy chain the two parts together, but we knew it was only a temporary fix. This year has been very stormy. When the leaves fell this season, I was driving up from the west (not my usual route) and was horrified to see how bad the split had become even with the chain. Thankfully, it didn't come down on us or our neighbors before we could take care of it in a safer manner.
Here are a couple of photos from today. I'll update as the work progresses.
This morning 9 am
This afternoon around 3 from the back of the house.
No way was I going to get under their feet.
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