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Storm Arwen- windfall beech tree 2022

May 23, 2022 - Reading time: 9 minutes

Cleaning up a beech tree that fell over in late 2021 during storm “Arwen”, squishing some stock fencing. There were ditches on both sides so getting the tractor close enough to be much help was awkward, but I used it to drag out the thickest trunk sections and bring things home. I plan to mill the trunks in to slabs, and will add pics of that (and whatever becomes of them) to this post.

Pics of the fallen tree and damaged fence

Progress pics – a fun day or two of chainsawing and throwing logs around…

Bringing things home – mostly firewood but a few big sections…

All cleaned up like new – the fence needed some new posts & staples but it’s now stock proof again. The stump and a section of trunk are left to keep bugs & critters happy:

Will add posts on progress when milling the trunk sections….

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