Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
Posts: 6544

Wow, I am have been running into a bunch of blow-down trees. If huge trees aren't completely up rooted, they have been snapped at about 20 feet high mark. Very few of the trees snapped have made it all the way to the ground. We had a bad wind storm about 2 months ago. Some areas have so many branches on the ground and the nettles are grown up over them. It sure makes walking interesting.

Saturday night Rain treed on a large tree that had snapped about 20 feet up. That tree top laid horizontal to the ground touching at least a dozen other trees. Then a larger nearby tree that split into 6 huge branches had one branch fall and it laid perpendicular across the other snapped tree. What a mess! I looked for about 5 minutes. The sweat was stinging my eyes, and I figured i could have spent 30 minutes shining all the trees that were in direct contact. What a mess!

I suspect we will end up treed on that same tree until the leaves fall. Then it will be game over.

Anybody else experiencing a bunch of downed trees?

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Registered: Jul 2008
Location: N.E. Iowa
Posts: 363

Windstorm back in June created a lot of coon "jungle gyms" in some of my spots. Right along with the nettle patches surrounding them since it opened up the canopy. It's a mess and it probably will be for a loooong time since nobody is going to go back in them woods and clean them up. Interesting how quickly the coon figure those things out.

Some other places where a tornado went through a few years ago will never be the same. Trees twisted, woven together and then the new growth growing up into that mess makes them impossible to walk through. Litterally like a jungle or a huge spiderweb. I think a coon could travel a mile and never touch the ground in some of those places.

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