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Do you have any mobile sawyers in your area? That wood is worth $$$$!

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Thank you, it was crazy to see it down :(

We don't, she's old but not on our property.

Awww

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Root rot

Totally. Same reason sequoias will start to die or fall over up here. Western WA is too damp. They like the dry soil of The Sierras.

Happens a lot with Doug fir and Hemlock too. And it travels through the soil from tree to tree. The area I live has had it so bad that they attempted to plant a generation of Ponderosa pine to try and filter out the disease.

You can thank Weyerhaeuser for a century of planting monoculture to feed their sawmills.

Rest in peace, sweet old tree. Thank you for the years of shade and adventure!

Sorry for your loss. I hope you have pictures of you climbing it in the past.

Yes it was bad in the hole.

Thank you, unfortunately I don't, it was 35 years ago and my folks didn't care .

As a former tree climber, I feel this loss.

Those winds last evening were crazy.

We have 50 foot pine that was honestly borderline.

I'm sorry you're tree caught the brunt man... Damn

They were, hadn't seen that in awhile, thank you.

Thank you

Crazy to see such a clean break like that

60+ mph gusts here and there wasn't a windbreak, but she had root rot too.

God bless the cool tree

Thank you, my son has climbed her too.

I still remember a tree my dad had growing up that I helped cut and chip after it came down. I was probably 7 or 8. One of the only times I saw him cry when I was a kid. It made a huge impression on me, and I’ll remember his tree forever.

That's an amazing story, thank you for sharing it with us. Our family planted 40 acres of orchard and we lost it decades ago. Trees are so vitally important.