Down it Comes! May 30th

What a fun way to start the weekend! Adam has been looking this tree over for a couple months now. Trimming off the smaller, lower branches. Then studying the larger, higher ones. On Friday night he had stout ropes in three different branches and a very good idea where he'd like to see them fall. The yard is quite small with a number of obstacles so his engineering knowledge is coming into play quite nicely. I sometimes wonder if Adam doesn't use his math skills on a daily basis.



Four guys showed up from work at about 10 a.m. Adam offered to be the one with the chainsaw up in the tree. But quickly one of his co-workers volunteered. He has done several trees with his brother. And then told a story where they even took one down with a 'dozer. He climbed right up the ladder and into the branches and quickly went to work. Adam pulled on the rope and the branches came down great! They all went to cleaning up and then tossed the ropes into the next branches to come down. By 11:30 they were finished! Adam had planned it really well.

This last top of the tree kind of came down on the fence. One branch kind of hit the ladder. But just a few little dents. There are also some pretty big dents in the ground now, too. Kind of neat to see. Their main concern was the house, and they stayed well away from that. They did a great job!