Pock, Eit.

[frobzwiththingz]

First, the good news, in short form: Baitcon was excellent all around!

OK. Now, the bad news, in more detail.

It's Monday, roughly 1:00am, and i've just gotten *back* from Baitcon in New Lebanon, NY, where i've been camping for the weekend. So klingonlandlady and i pull into the driveway, and what do i see? Well, it's clear we've had some heavy storms. you can tell this because

One of the maple trees in our yard has been broken off and has fallen onto the guy wires of the outdoor aerial rig

Another shot. Terrible pictures, as its foggy and this is taken using a cheap halogen worklight. But you can see what is going on.

Close-up. Guy wire is being pulled quite a ways off course.

Crap. This really calls for immediate dealing, and i'd really rather get a decent nights sleep instead. Eit Eit Eit.

I dremeled through the safety loop backing up the come-along on this guy wire, released all tension on it and detached it, rerouted it above the fallen tree, and re-attached it. Everything seems OK otherwise. The guy wire appears to have held and the connecting hardware at the top of the rig still appears to be intact. Tomorrow i'll need to cut down the rest of the tree, and chainsaw it into little bits, and climb up and do a close-up inspection of everything. So much for any down time before packing for Firefly.

[Edit - cut down rest of tree, and inspected the works. everything appears intact and undamaged. Whew.]

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

ow. hopefully the rig is still in good shape and the tree comes down out of the way easily.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

We had just gotten home when one of the storms hit. It was as dark at 4:30 as it usually is around 8:30PM. Then the sky opened and the wind was roaring. Our power flickered on and off a few times. And the wind pulled one of my potted tomato plants right off the porch.
Tell klingonlandlady that I finally got the hail I wanted. :)

I'm glad the tree didn't damage or take out the rig completely on you. Sounds like it was a fairly easy fix.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I'm sorry for the hassle and hope everything is, in fact, undamaged.

[sensesurfer.livejournal.com]

Interesting.......Is that the area where you pulled out a couple of trees recently. I wonder if the maple was unprepared for high winds because it was used to having other trees around it.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Poor tree. I don't see why you had to deal with it late at night, for all you know it happened on Friday. It likely could have waited til morning. But if your morning was already planned for Firefly prep, I understand the "get it done now" mentality.

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

just because the giant metal object dealt for some unknown number of hours with having its support messed with doesn't mean it wouldn't finish pulling or breaking through something important before morning, especially if any more wind comes up. probably? sure. but this is not a case where you really want to be wrong...

[drwex]

That's an amazing amount of work to have to do at 1AM. I'm glad the damage wasn't worse.

[mlp367.livejournal.com]

That sucks. Let me know if you need any help.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Definitely not what you want to arrive home to after a long weekend. :/ Glad that it largely worked out okay for the rig, though.