Wind and how car parts saved a tree.

[Steve1968LS2]

It's freaking crazy here.. insane wind blowing. I spent the night saving trees, or at least trying to, in our backyard.

We have a large cypress tree that started to get blown over. I went to garage to McGuyver up something. Then I had an idea.

I drilled a hole in the top of the cinder block wall by the tree. I then inserted the long J-rod that held the spare tire down in the Fairlane. From this I used car trailer tie downs to go around the tree and ancor to the Fairlane part. The pressure of the tree pulling keeps the rod in the hole.

On the other side (since I only have one Fairlane) I found an old piece of all-thread from Penny. To this I bolted a bracket from my Simpson racing harness (a piece I won't be needing again). Then I drilled another hole in the wall and with another tie strap the tree was secure. I hope.

On other large tree in our backyard was split last night, what a mess. At least we're not on fire.

I will try to snap a pic later of my creation. I just though it was funny that old hot rod parts came in handy like this.