Monday, April 24, 2017

Tree. . .Be Gone #2




Taking down this massive tree (ironically on Earth Day) was of great interest to the neighbours.  After watching for  a short time, most of the adults returned home to go about their business but an eleven-year-old boy and I spent the better part of the last two days watching the procedure. I, because I lived next door and had an invested interest in it since it was diseased and could easily have fallen on our house or garage but the boy just was fascinated with the entire process. Truth be told, I, too, was fascinated with the skill and talents of the men who were doing the work.Tomorrow I will show you more photos as the work came closer to the ground.
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8 comments:

  1. troutbirder9:16 AM

    It is truly amazing how they safely take those huge trees from the top down. btw I loved The Zookeepers Wife.... what a brave couple they were in a horrendous time....

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  2. Lowell9:36 AM

    That is a massive job. You'd have loved the group that trimmed our trees here in Ocala. It was a family...husband, wife, and kids. The husband and kids wore no shirts or shoes. The wife stayed on the ground giving directions. They scrambled up in the trees like monkeys. Then when they got paid, they took off for the bingo parlor. I learned later that the husband fell out of a tree and was hospitalized. But he showed up after that at my door looking for work. :)

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  3. Sharon9:47 AM

    I'll be interested to see how this process works.

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  4. William Kendall9:48 AM

    My dad would always go out to watch something like that.

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  5. Catalyst4:33 PM

    Fascinating to watch. Last time we lived in Phoenix, we had a guy go high up in a palm tree with only a rope and shoes with spikes attached to trim it.

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  6. AsAeenBySusan6:45 AM

    I agree that it's a fascinating process. I have a huge, gigantic walnut tree in my backyard which needed trimming last year. Watching the guy climb the tree, pick out and saw the branches that needed removal, and then lower them down using ropes was like watching a well choreographed dance solo. And then we had another huge maple tree removed on my partners property, although that guy was able to use a crane.

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  7. Bill1:47 PM

    I would be there too watching and photographing the process.

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  8. Kay11:07 PM

    Going, going...
    Always interesting to watch how complicated things are accomplished.

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