Woodpecker holes.
Woodpecker holes.
More holes all around the trunk.
There were large dead limbs, too, which we'd need to have trimmed out anyway.
While we had a crew here, we would also take down the dying pine tree, 6th from
the house in the row.
October 10th - the crew is here with the bucket truck and a chipper.
They started with Julie's.
Lowering the large limb he'd just cut off.
The 2 guys on the ground guided it down.
Fog rolled in for a bit.
One tree down.
Large gouge where one of the logs fell, but nothing impacted the driveway.
Why the tree needed to come down in a controlled fashion, rather than wait for
a storm.
Now to take down the large one in our yard.
View from the deck. They methodically worked their way up the trunk, removing limbs.
The bucket was almost tall enough, so the worker stood on the edges.
Thank goodness he was safety-strapped, but it was still hard to watch.
and there goes the top.
We told them to please avoid hitting the apricot trees, but that we wouldn't be
heartbroken if one of the spruces got dinged. So they carefully erred on that side
and brought everything down beautifully. The only damage was a scrape on one of the
spruces, which was fine. We're contemplating replacing them because they aren't
well-suited to that space and are not thriving there.
And now for the main trunk.
Two of the crew manned the guiding rope.
Timber!
Surprisingly not as much insect infestation as we'd expected, but we're still
relieved to not be worrying about it.
You can see some incipient infestation, which explains the woodpeckers.
Just for fun, Glen got out his vintage saw and he and the professional posed for this pic.
Large pile of logs. We wanted the wood anyway, but as a bonus we saved a bunch by
not paying them to deal with it.
