Tree Work

I mentioned that we were hiring a tree company to do some work for us in this post, and last week they came out and cut down a tree and trimmed the dead branches off another tree. We didn't feel confident taking this one down as there was not a safe place to drop it, in any direction. The tree company took it down in sections, and it was interesting to watch how they did it as they didn't use a bucket truck- just ropes and other climbing gear.

the climber is just below the lowest branch, about halfway up

This tree is right where we want to put our car port, and since it died last summer we had a bit more incentive to get it taken down sooner rather than later. The wood was still sound, but it doesn't take long for dead trees to start deteriorating in our damp climate.

climber up waaaay higher than I would ever go

this tree was about 100' from the ground to the top

he went up the tree, cutting branches off as he went
they had this pulley mechanism to control the fall of the bigger branches and the trunk sections

branches all off

trunk mostly down 

all done

we'll get a mobil sawmill out to cut a mantel out of that tree trunk section in the middle of the picture-
we'll finally be able to finish our fireplace that I tore apart 6 or so years ago (it was too ugly to leave as it was)

we had them leave all the wood in place- we'll clear it up ourselves as we have time 

This tree has had some dead branches for a few years, and since they're over the garden shed, we wanted to get them removed before they fell on the shed. This was not something we could do ourselves, since it required more climbing and ropes and pulleys to control the fall of the branches.

dead branches

no more dead branches threatening the shed