I live in a rural area. I always carry a bow saw in the car but I am on the lookout for firewood.
A tree fell across our highway, I dialled 101 for the council emergency team. A man turned up with a tiny handsaw. I volunteered to help him with my chain saw. We cleared the road in a few minutes Needless to say, the tree ended up in my firewood store.
Hello,
Hopefully just about on topic.
I came to a stationary queue of traffic yesterday. It looked as though some tree branches had fallen into the road.
A police car arrived but from another direction a tradesman (for want of a better word) got out of his van with a saw. I assume the branches were still partially attached to the tree because this gentleman climbed the bank at the side of the road and disappeared out of sight.
The policeman then dragged the sawn branches to the side of the road and we all moved off again.
I was thinking that had that man not been there, the delay would have been much longer. The police would probably have had to call someone (the council?) to cut the branches, and with the tree being up a steep bank at the side of the road, there would have been a health and safety assessment and people needing to Abel down, etc. and I could have been there all night!
Does anyone here, particularly in rural areas, carry a saw in case of a scenario like this?
I remember one year getting out of my car to move some branches that had blown down in a gale. I remember wondering if I was doing the right thing because I was directly underneath the tree and I was worried that more might have fallen onto me!
Thanks, Stephen.
Stephen scribbled
They would have called the fire brigade. This story could have been front page in the Daily Heil along with all the other non stories it carries.
Pretty desperate stuff, dragging the DM into a question about a fallen tree !
Andy Cap scribbled
Daily Heil, the home of deadwood.
A few years ago, I was heading down a narrow back lane, went round a bend
- and everything was utterly stationary. Turned out a skip wagon had got very caught up in a tree, ripped a big branch partially off, and was thoroughly wedged.
Fortunately, the first vehicle coming the other way was a van of tree surgeons on their way to work...
I had to stop in a country lane when a man flagged me down because there was a norse in the road. I turned round with images floating through my mind of helmets with horns and sagas, longships, flaxen haired maidens etc.
The flaxen haired maidens with horns in their helmets are ok, but those damned sagas can bore you to death.
Lucky they didn't nick him for carrying a blame more than three inches long.
On 17/05/2015 11:31, Stephen wrote: ...
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It is not a problem I have had in the past 50 years, so it would seem to be a bit unnecessary. I did have to stop for an escaped bullock last year though. Perhaps I should carry a cattle prod in the car?
Nightjar brought next idea :
..and a sheepdog, to round up the stray sheep.
Would an insulation tester do?
Owain
They come as standard equipment with Land Rovers don't they?
Bloody amateurs:-)
Cordless angle grinder is the correct tool.
(although I have just bid for a cordless circular saw and jigsaw)
and send you loads of junk mail.
This is for the house that doesn't need any heating?
In article , Stephen scribeth thus
Sometimes 'tho I don't have most everything else most times but not the chainsaw..
They are heavy, bloody heavy, be very careful when cutting up a tree even slim "ish" ones.
See the pix after a car has had a tree fall on it, not good;!...
Only in crew cab SWB series 3 or earlier. B-)
I don't carry a saw, border collie or cattle prod. I've only ever come across a fallen tree once and that was on the night of the Carlisle flood in 2005 about 200 yds south of the High Force Hotel. That was a full size beech, trunk 2 to 3' in dia, right across the road. A 24" bow saw wouldn't have been much use. This tree was one of a wood running right along side the road, I wouldn't have been happy out cutting one tree with loads of other similar size trees all swaying, creaking and groaning, in the storm...
Another few miles further up Teesdale fallen trees are no longer a risk as there aren't any trees to fall, just open fell.
I have a tuit somewhere for putting the bow saw in the car...
On Sun, 17 May 2015 16:55:39 +0100, Nightjar > ..and a sheepdog, to round up the stray sheep.
Fortunately, it appears to have been a delete option, else our cats would be somewhat pissed off.
Ah. Mine's an s3 88"... but a station wagon.
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