A number of our Blue Spruces have some type of Fungus. They are all dying. We had them through the years as our Christmas trees, and Pa would plant them in the yard. We recently had some tree guys come and give us estimates. WOW, one was way too high. One said he couldn't take on new customers, another wouldn't return my calls. So we settled on one who's estimate was pretty darn good. But I decided to only get the 2 cut down, for now. He wanted to get them down, while the weather was nice, and yard was dry.
Diane, me, in front of the tree that was in front of the house.
To the right, is the tree in the side yard, from earlier this year. The last 2 rain, wind storms it lost a lot of the small branches, and looked bad when it was cut down.
He had to climb up and chop off branches as he went up. Then started cutting sections off as he went back down.
He had cut a wedge, Ma saved it, it is on the front porch. He had kicked it out.
Finally the last HUGE section came down against the Oak tree. BOOM!!
The tree in the side yard he had cut first. I think it was so he could get his big truck up closer, so he wouldn't have to carry these tree pieces very far.
I still have to go out and take a shot of the tree rings.
They had a skinny rope in a bucket. He had a weight on the end. He had a Pipe with a weird thingy on the end, which turned out to be a Fancy Sling shot. He shot the end up into the tree, the weight carried it back down. First time, it wasn't on the other side of the tree. He did it again, and then tied a bigger stronger rope onto it. 2 guys were on the end of it, and pulled the tree at the right moment, when the cut was done.
Below is the Sugar Maple tree. He had to cut some low branches off of it, for the truck to get up into the front.
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