The reason why it’s taking so long is mostly that we’re in a fairly sparsely populated area on the outskirts of town. So not only do we have a lot of these big trees around, PGE also always ends up prioritizing the areas with many more customers affected.
But it doesn’t help that this really is a pretty massive tree, and it has also fallen in a way that makes it hard to remove, with the middle unsupported.
One of our neighbors has a brother that is a logger, and he apparently thought you might want two trucks to get it out: one to support the tree while the other cuts it from above.
Me not being a logger just nodded wisely.
RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/98d5c1fa-1f94-452d-868c-f49b6f250579
@torvalds the secret is an undercut from the bottom about an 1/8 up then cut straight down. It doesn’t spring back up that way and just drops. Still, that’s a huge log to cut. Not sure an even a massive 24” bar would go through it.