In this shot I am starting the trimming using pruning shears and a hand-saw:
And an hour or so after that (with Kim's help) we cut it back to this:
From this angle it is impossible to tell that the vast majority of the work is yet to be done. The tree split into three sections and the largest section was away from this perspective laying in the oleander bushes.Then a guy from church (and his teenage son) came over with a chain saw and we were able to tackle the big stuff. So after several more hours (just before we cut it down to a stump), it looked like this:
Although I have no picture of the short stump yet, the tree is gone. We hauled several loads to the dump and have a trailer full of firewood to give back to the man who loaned us his trailer. The yard is sunny (we'll miss the shade), and we are grateful our house wasn't damaged by the accident.
2 comments:
Glad to hear you got it all removed from the premises. Sorry about the loss of the tree. I love y'all!
I must say, I was expecting you to give us the first picture, tell us about your pruning shears, and switch right to the third.
Did you put the screens back up in the windows yet or did we never take them down last fall? I can't remember.
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