quote:Originally posted by IndyDave:
I think you do some serious woodworking!
Were you out of the house? Was anything left of your house?
Came through the roof into the attic. Got a picture somewhere.
Problem was it also fell across the entire back yard against the kitchen door.
We lost power for 7 days and I don't keep chain saws.
It took four men four days to cut up the tree and load it into two 30 yard trash containers.
Once it was out of the way the damage to the house was not a big deal for me. I'm a carpentry contractor.
6 weeks later the insurance company showed up and didn't want to pay for anything. More correctly they wrote a check for $1,500 for the tree removal. The containers alone were about $650 each, plus the labor for four men for four days.
The house repair turned out to be on me.
In plain English, that company just plain sucks BUT as far as I can figure, the other ones do too.
In fact, and this is documented, the Feds gave New Jersey, I believe $11 billion for hurricane damage and so far the "good guy Governor Chris Cristi, spent $65,000 of it on a TV campaign "we weathered the storm" (helped him get re-elected) and released something like 20% of the money.
I was never out of my house. Many in NJ and NY STILL aren't back in theirs yet, BUT don't get me started again!
I actually wanted to make the console out of black walnut but this oak, and as it turned out a piece of "tiger oak" was irresistible.
I thought the grain on it was unique.
It's in the car now but the picture of it came out a little green tinted for some reason, which it definitely is not. It is really a choice piece of red oak.
I can post a better pic of it in the car if you're interested? Let me know.
