suhawk305
Road warrior
Bad situation but some great news. Much less hassle for you. Now dealing with the insurance claims department!
Tree fell on my garage
- Thread starter curlyjoe
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SportsterDoc
Road warrior
Great news on the damage (or no damage) report!
the Ferret
Road warrior
Sa-weet!
KiowaEagle_imp
Road warrior
Great to hear Joe!
Great news.
Lord Popgun
Road warrior
Awesome Curlyjoe! 
peterbaron
Road warrior
Good to hear happy end
As it turns out, my wife's Rav4 held up a cross beam that could have damaged both bikes.
The end of the cross beam came to rest on the bar/triple tree of the CB. The big problem there is we needed to cut the cable to release the compression of one of the garage door springs. The spring was aimed directly at the tank/instrument cluster of the CB so I grabbed some blankets and my daughter's bean bag chair and we wrapped the spring with one blanket and packed the bean bag chair over the tank and then cut the spring cable. We then could removed the left garage door. We removed the windscreen on the ST (beam was directly behind the screen) and then backed the bike out. They used the back hoe bucket to lift the beam off the CB so we could back it out. They then jacked up that beam off the rav4 and then backed it out. Success! If the bikes had been parked a little more forward or backward, I think they would have been damaged. Here's some more pics.
Assessing the CB situation.
CB safe and sound.
Both bikes mourning the loss of their home.
The end of the cross beam came to rest on the bar/triple tree of the CB. The big problem there is we needed to cut the cable to release the compression of one of the garage door springs. The spring was aimed directly at the tank/instrument cluster of the CB so I grabbed some blankets and my daughter's bean bag chair and we wrapped the spring with one blanket and packed the bean bag chair over the tank and then cut the spring cable. We then could removed the left garage door. We removed the windscreen on the ST (beam was directly behind the screen) and then backed the bike out. They used the back hoe bucket to lift the beam off the CB so we could back it out. They then jacked up that beam off the rav4 and then backed it out. Success! If the bikes had been parked a little more forward or backward, I think they would have been damaged. Here's some more pics.
Assessing the CB situation.
CB safe and sound.
Both bikes mourning the loss of their home.
fritzwilliger_imp
Running like a top
Wow! Remarkable how the most valuable stuff in your garage got out of this mess pretty much unscathed! Glad you can keep riding both bikes!curlyjoe_imp said:As it turns out, my wife's Rav4 held up a cross beam that could have damaged both bikes.
The end of the cross beam came to rest on the bar/triple tree of the CB. The big problem there is we needed to cut the cable to release the compression of one of the garage door springs. The spring was aimed directly at the tank/instrument cluster of the CB so I grabbed some blankets and my daughter's bean bag chair and we wrapped the spring with one blanket and packed the bean bag chair over the tank and then cut the spring cable. We then could removed the left garage door. We removed the windscreen on the ST (beam was directly behind the screen) and then backed the bike out. They used the back hoe bucket to lift the beam off the CB so we could back it out. They then jacked up that beam off the rav4 and then backed it out. Success! If the bikes had been parked a little more forward or backward, I think they would have been damaged. Here's some more pics.
Assessing the CB situation.
CB safe and sound.
Both bikes mourning the loss of their home.
And isn't it mazing how rubble always looks pretty much the same from one pile to another...?!
-fritz
the Ferret
Road warrior
What good fortune. That red ST is pretty. I miss my ST.
Sounds like good work by the demo guys, Curlyjoe. No doubt your insurers will also be very happy with them.
