Felling Trees!!!

BEFORE

When we moved out to Windy Hill Fowl Farm and Puppy Ranch 10+ years ago, it had a number of Silver Maple Trees. The plus side it that these are fast growing shade trees. The down side is they are a soft tree that doesn’t hold up well to wind, heavy snow or aging. We’ve had at least 2 fall on their own over the years and luckily have never landed on anything of value.

Since we’ve just sided our house, (some trim was already ripped off by the wind, that’s another blog story), we thought it might be good to remove a couple trees that were old, dying, rotting,leaning and a threat to our electrical wire that’s attached to the house.

We picked two trees, for now, to have dropped. One large Silver Maple that has recently been losing more limbs than leaves. It's inside was hollow and a place to drop empty water bottles and broken toys! That needed to STOP! The other an old walnut that was leaning a bit too close to the the electrical line, not to mention, every try to plant any 'pretty' trees next to a black walnut? It's a Death sentence! They excrete a chemical called juglone which a number of plants are sensitive to.

Monday a couple guys stopped out and in 45 minutes had those two trees down! It was quite interesting to watch. I think most of the time was spent getting the 7’ wide truck through the 7’6” wide gate! Somehow I don’t think the phrase, “Suck it in” would have helped! The young guy was really nice, the old guy was kind of grumpy, thus, I didn’t think he’s appreciate my ‘flip video’. So, I had to secretly ‘film’ from inside the house.

I didn’t get all of it, as I was getting ready for work, but they were very good at what they do. We now have two neat piles to cut apart this weekend. At least we have SOMETHING to do!!

Some of my favorite parts. Tying the top limb to the bumper of the truck. Leaving the chain saw, next to the tree. The bucket!! Love the BUCKET!! I sure wish we had one of those!

AFTER

Enjoy the show!