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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Getting rid of our dead oak tree

Chris taking down the dead oak


Mat's boss, Chris, came over to help Mat cut down our tree that died a slow, sure death this summer.  It was kind of tricky to cut down as there are power lines on two side, a tree we just planted that we wanted to keep, our house and our garden.   So Chris cut off the limbs on all sides except for a few on a key side so that the tree wouldn't roll down into the garden.


mat cutting the branches


big chainsaw


Look how big the chainsaw is!!


the tree that doesn't want to fall


Why doesn't the tree want to fall down????  It's cut all the way through.


still doesn't want to fall


Putting wedges in to make it fall over.


starting to


Mat hammering away at the wedges, you can see it is starting to fall over.  Yay!


falling


And now we have a tree that we are splitting up in our yard.

1 comment:

  1. Loved to see you cut down this tree. Great job on the pics. Interesting how it was caught on the power lines eh? Thanks so much for sharing. I loved it!
    Love from,
    Aunt Mary-Ann

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