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Got some photos of the damage from the wind storm at my nephew's place. We're still working on cutting up fallen trees every Saturday. Seems like there's no end to it.
Man, we were lucky this time around. I'm hoping the older cedars and grand firs around our place have deeper root systems than I'm seeing in these photos!
Most of the trees that go down in my area are lodgepoles AKA Idaho weeds. Ponderosa pines are probably #2. The soil was soaked and soft due to the relatively warm weather prior to the windstorm making it even easier for these trees to fall.
Luckily I cut down and removed the stumps of just about all the lodgepoles in a 2-3 acre area near my house during the first year I moved up here. That sure was a lot of work but the lodgepole stumps pulled out pretty easily.
Hey old AF, were you puling those stumps out with that little excavator? If so, they really ARE shallow (and weakly) rooted.
Yup, I think I cut down way over a hundred of them to thin things out and most came out really easily. The worst were these two pondeBullBoxer31 that were growing together. I had to dig a huge hole around them to get them out. My tractor with filled tires and about 750lbs on the rear felt light lifting even one of the stumps after separating them.
Man, that is some soft looking soil... so I'd guess that is a big part of the reason for the tree falls there. By contrast, I tell people that we live 'on a rock'.... typically hard shale just 1-3' down, with harder granites and other such stuff scattered around. The trees live a hard life here.... but getting the deciduous stumps out is not worth the effort.
Man, that is some soft looking soil... so I'd guess that is a big part of the reason for the tree falls there...
A lot of North Idaho, at least the flatlands, are alluvial outwash from proglacial Lake Missoula. Enough time has not passed for it to compact and solidify into some type of sandstone or cobble conglomerate. It's pretty "sandy".
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