26 February 2009

The Fallen Tree

A few weeks ago after an especially windy night, we discovered that a huge tree off to the north of the house had fallen over. The tree was about 30 feet long with a circumference of 8-10 feet at the base and needless to say, it made quite a mess. The following photographs were taken during out clean-up effort.

Clean-up required steady nerves, monkey-like tree climbing, and a saw....

It also required some creative positioning in order to tackle hard-to-reach branches...

But at the end of the day the tree was mostly down and we have a fresh stack of logs to turn into firewood.

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