Trees, trees, everywhere but mostly on or across the fences! While having some shredding done, The Colonel drove through the North West Pasture and as is always the case; whenever he is back there he always checks the fence line. On the West Side of that pasture is an empty forest! Not really a forest but lots of trees and vines and scrub brush, etc. There was a beautiful Red Oak tree in the “forest” that we have kept our eye on because we knew it was going to fall sooner or later. It was dropping more than its’ share of limbs and we have had to fix that fence line more than our share of fence fixings!
The area where the tree is, make that was, does not belong to us. The tree fell and it really fell. Some of the broken pieces of limbs dug into the ground so hard when it fell it was all I could do to pull them out. I thought to myself it was a good thing there wasn’t anyone standing in that area when it fell because they would not have had a very good day that day. While I was picking up pieces of the broken limbs and the smaller limbs, The Colonel was cutting vines out of the way. The tree is laying on the fence with T-Posts beneath it. There was only one place the cows could get out and we knew they would find it. So, we brought a panel up to wire into the fence line that was still standing to the right side, to cover that hole. The way the tree is laying on the left side of our fence keeps the cows in on that side.
The Colonel estimates the tree was probably at least 100 years old based on other trees we own that we know are that old. Even though it was not a tree that belonged to The Red Oak Ranch, it is hard to see a tree that old and that beautiful go down.
