Sunday, November 28, 2010

Thanksgiving - Friday

Prep work to take down 2 trees, the big redwood and a smaller one next to it.
This is the smaller of the 2 trees down now.

Dave Jones, our home teacher, brought his bucket truck to take this redwood down limb by limb and then in 4 chunks. He used to do this for a living. He's an electrician/lineman with his own company nowadays.

Mom almost had a coronary when he stepped out of the bucket and onto the limbs 40 feet in the air!
Tied off now Dave instructs how to pull when he finishes the cuts.

The top came down slightly more to the left than was comfortable - I nearly had a coronary. The whole idea was to keep from smashing the neighbor's sheds. Dave did a magnificent job.

Came down in 4 chunks with only 1 minor divet in the driveway.

Our other home teacher, Allen Berry, had a bigger saw than we did and was able to do a better cutting job. Took awhile but it all got taken care of.

Dave prepares to level off the stump.

Huge rings. About 20 years ago we bought it as a live Christmas tree in a container.

Cutting up the logs.

All that's left - plus a top that might become a Christmas tree this year. Thankful for good home teachers willing to help and for the safety of all involved.











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