Tag Archives: Hurricane Helene

Banana cubits 2025-03-24

When you don’t bring a measuring device, measure in cubits!


[Banana cubit 2025-03-23]

Banana cubit 2025-03-23

Gretchen had recently lopped off the freeze-killed tops of these banana plants,
and she was observing how much they had grown out since. Continue reading →

Cherry Bowl from OPF log –Bob Gronko 2025-03-27

Yesterday, Bob Gronko sent a picture of the bowl he made from a cherry log.


[Cherry bowl Bob Gronko made from one of these cherry logs]

Cherry bowl Bob Gronko made from one of these cherry logs

He took a couple of
the logs you see in this picture.

They came from the cherry tree

I had to cut off the top of the corn crib after Hurricane Helene blew it onto there. Continue reading →

Cypress Swamp pollen 2025-02-27

The cypress swamp is full of water and pollen.


[Cypress swamp pollen]

Cypress swamp pollen

That slash pine on the left is an example of a tree blown down by Hurricane Helene that still has a rootball and green needles.

Maybe some day soon the pine salvage operation will get here for such trees.
They can’t survive like that,
and they have some value as saw-timber of pulpwood.

-jsq

Oddly broken plumbing 2025-01-28

Hurricane Helene, or maybe the ice storm after,
broke off a woods spigot.

It was a little more complicated to fix than expected.


[Pipe pieces and fixed plumbing]

Pipe pieces and fixed plumbing

I got a replacement part and cut below the break. Continue reading →

Removed: pine deadfall in back driveway 2025-01-14

That

pine deadfall in the back driveway
was in the way,
so I removed it the next day.


[Removed]

Removed

These other logs also I recently dragged out of there with tractor and logging chain. Continue reading →

Deadfalls after Hurricane Helene 2024-12-07

Every path through my woods looks like this. Hurricane Helene was ten times worse than Idalia for south Georgia and north Florida. Forestry is Georgia’s top industry, and it is hurting bad, along with pecan trees and other agriculture.


[Fallen oak and pine trees after Hurricane Helene]

Fallen oak and pine trees after Hurricane Helene

-jsq

Dropped oak tree on tractor shed roof 2024-11-27

Oops.
That oak tree insisted on going south when I cut it down.
It made a big dent in the tractor shed roof.


[Roof damage]

Roof damage

It broke off the end of one roof truss.
But the main truss and the plate it is sitting on are undamaged.
So it’s fixable, and not so bad meanwhile. Continue reading →