I can barely move today but the roof is off the front section now, sawed up and @ the recycler. I had a roofer who did some work on the damage behind me offer to remove it all if he could have scrap/salvage rights. Deal.
I told him he would have to start that afternoon and take it off a piece at a time without damaging the plants. I worked with him for several hours friday afternoon/evening and was satisfied I could trust him while I was gone Saturday.
The place was spotless when i returned last night and this morning i ran power to the back for him to juice his bigger sawzall as he takled the stuff wrapped around the tree in the back. He's out now making good headway.
Boy I was lucky....
In the front, minor damage to a couple blueberry plants and one artichoke. some soil that had fresh compost worked in ahead of the season was compacted but since fixed. The fence is a little whacked but repairable.
Sadly the bat house was throw 50 feet and the two 2" galvanized poles were bent to around 45 degrees before separating. I don't see getting it repaired and up again this year if at all.
The blackberries and trellis got kneecapped by the same cable that cut down the bat house and I figure I lost 50% of the production from them (based on my unofficial forensic analysis, both of the large sections of roofing hit the power lines and the back one dragged it over my back section like a 4000 lb tensile strength kite string. The back section looks originally to have been approximately 180-100 x 30-40ft, the front one near my house around 50x40. That power cable would have cut someone in half. Not that I would have been out there though....)
Struck a deal with a salvage guy working at the business where the roof was (until thursday evening) and he's going to give me some salvaged 5-v roofing he has so i can repair the shed roofs with "aged" ie rusted panels that match.
Like I said, pretty lucky overall.
