all right what the games begin let me uh let me splain something
this tree is rotted and I don't know how deep the rot goes it appears to be it
doesn't appear to be rotted on this side of the tree just just here and and and
it looks to me like it only goes in about eight or ten inches so this is
gonna be really really dangerous to cut it's gonna be unpredictable I have a
chain going with that pine tree coming up here as high up as I could get it
with a ladder and normally you would cut your tree a little bit lower but I want
to be standing up straight so if this thing doesn't go in the direction I want
to go I can take off running and let's just say I'm no marathon runner so I'm
gonna start my wedge up about belly hi cousin I'm not gonna come in too deep
with my wedge because like I said I don't know how far the rod Ian goes in
here so I'm gonna cut a very shallow wedge out and then start cutting in from
this side and be ready to run and I'm gonna get my wife out here and stand
down there and put cranks on the come-along when I give her the signal
we've done this before a few hundred times actually and and I've measured and
from here to there there's about twenty feet shy at the top of this tree I'm
cutting so but anyway I want to tell her to when it starts going just step behind
that pine just to be sure I mean just to be sure no limbs come off and you know
she can do this and right now I've flooded my chainsaw
out so I gotta let that dry out and I pulled the plug
put that dry for a minute and we get cranked and get warmed up and go get her
out here we'll be back well I asked my wife to
come out here and get on the business end of that chain and she has before but
she says she's scared and I don't blame her
here's my here's my dilemma this it really is a dangerous tree to cut
because it it may even be Hollow it's definitely rotted it could possibly
be Hollow and it's kind of a crapshoot taking a gamble that I'm gonna get it to
go in the direction I want it to which is that direction but the truth is if I
leave it the wind is gonna eventually take it down and then I have absolutely
no control over what direction it goes then so I figure my odds are better
trying to take it down myself then let the wind take it down I mean I have
insurance and you know I hope it doesn't come to that but I sort of have no
choice so anyway I called my friend Dwayne he was in Longview and I said
when he left Longview he'd head straight over here so along he's about hour and
45 minutes away well-known for Dwayne that's about 20
minutes yeah he's a speed demon so we'll continue this when he gets here let's do
a body count you okay over there hey I said let's do a body count are you
okay over there
okay that's right where I wanted it done well
oh I would say maybe a quarter of it it's more rotted at the base than it is
up here so uh we did a good thing here you can
see it even better at looking at this angle alrighty
he's in there huh look at all em answer Oh
oh they had a house there no I'm glad I took it down cuz every every time the
wind blew I worried about it I didn't know exactly how rotted it was
and and for the last two or three years this thing hasn't leaked out so we knew
something was wrong hot aunt roasted in
this is my go-to sauce for everything chicken steaks burgers but I put a
little twist on it what I do is empty half of it out and
then take a bottle of Tabasco and fill the rest of it up to about here with
Tabasco leave enough room where you can shake it and mix it up and sometimes
what I'll do is I'll use one and I'll hamp the it and then I'll dump half of
this into the old one and then dump a half a bottle into each one just depends
but you mix Tabasco with your Heinz 57 and boy does it taste good if you like a
little spicy this is it Tabasco is to me it's a little too hot by itself but I
want to mix it with this it's just perfect
I'll get it