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A Lucky Tragedy
JamesRK
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This is the man I buy my beef from every year. He live across the road a ways. So, I guess the sky really is falling after all. [:D]
The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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I'm curious will the insurance pay out on act of god?
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
Insurance won't pay, since it didn't fall on the house, unless he went to Lloyd's of London and bought a life insurance policy on the tree.
The same thing generally happens to these giants, they rot from the inside out, if a logger doesn't get em first.
At export prices, a tree that size has a value (on the stump) of around $80,000.
[8)]barto[8)]
barto....Is a Port Orford cedar the same tree as Alaska Yellow cedar?
No sir, a Port Orford cedar is also known around here as white cedar or some even call it incense cedar. Very strong smell (pleasant) that will make your eyes water. Snow white heartwood. The bark on a tree that size would exceed 12 inches thick.
[^]barto[^]
If it is in fact several hundred years old, and if he technically "owns" the tree outright, maybe he could sell some of the wood to the high-end antique furniture and/or historical building restoration firms if it's mostly still solid.
I doubt if insurance will cover the car, but I don't know. If I run into him next week and don't forget, I'll ask him about insurance and the age of the tree. He's the kind of guy who will count the rings if they're countable. I'm just guessing, but I doubt it's more than two hundred years old, it that. I think it is just a regular old white oak. More than likely fire wood, but he has a nephew in the logging business, so I'm sure he'll check it out before he cuts it.
James, I never realized how much old wood, especially oak, is worth to the high-end builders and restorers. I watched an episode of "This Old House" years back and they needed to repair and restore an original pegged wooden plank floor in a farmhouse that was almost 300 years old. Wound up making a very long day trip to one specialty supply place that reclaimed very old wood, carefully removed any paint and varnish and cut and trimmed it down to the buyer's specs. Stuff looked awful at first but it costs a fortune afterwards!
Your friend may be able to get enough bucks as a result to offset the deductibles and any uncovered losses.
An old tree that is still alive, or even just died, is not the same thing as old wood. Wood acquires color and texture with age after it is harvested that just can't be duplicated by new wood, even if from very old trees.
True to that end, but I figured that loggers are not permitted to cut down very old trees - especially oak, elm and maple trees - for wood unless the tree is dead, rotted or diseased.
This particular one was probably healthy and may be a lot older than 200 years - or not - and is already down and just barely alive as long as the roots are still fairly wet.
I'm guessing that wood from a 200+ year old tree - freshly deceased - has more street value to some than the new wood from a "farmed" tree that was planted within the last 20 - 25 years has.
Just a guess here but since the tree's down and his car's destroyed, it never hurts to shop it for a price. And then again, it may only turn out to be a big load of really wet, hard wood.[:D]
Jeff
thats where the money is. some stock co.'s will come and haul it away for next generations profits. some of your guns now have wood on them from last century!
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.