Ice storm in Oklahoma today

Should be plenty of wood available.



I got my eye on my neighbor's pecan tree. It has broken branches already, probably more damage to come.


I'm regretting having not invested in a gasoline chain saw so I can go " help " everyone with their trees and limbs.

Neighbor is gonna need some help with the limbs off his pecan tree

Now that the ice has melted, I've been out driving around and this is not the bonanza I thought it would be. When covered with ice, the trees were bent over, but once ice melted they mostly returned to form.



And almost entirely its limbs that have broken. And they're mostly small limbs. It would be possible to get some good splits from them, but not enough for the work involved. I've only seen a few trees broken at the trunk and they're mostly ornamental like Bradford Pear or Redbud.



And finding oak and pecan trees is hard. I doubt anyone plants a hickory tree in their yard here. There's a few pin oak trees, but again, its small limbs that have broken off. Pecan trees are rare.