I know a lot of you wonderful friends that read this blog were a bit worried about my dear husband yesterday when he climbed 25 feet up a ladder leaned against our huge dead maple tree and was using a chainsaw up there to try to cut the tree down. I was worried too. Each time I heard a crack, crash and thunk I would go out to see if was a branch.. or hubby. The last one I watched him cut landed on the garage barn. So, I say... dear... why don't I call the local woodcutters? He spent a whole day climbing up and down that ladder with a chainsaw and sawing off the lower branches. After the whole day.. he gave in and let me call them. This photo is hubby.
This next photo is the professional. :-) They came at around 11 am to look over the situation and came back a half hour later with a backhoe and a very large chainsaw.
I actually took a video of the cutting and falling of the tree - blogger won't let me load it for you, but I did upload it to my Facebook page, it's rather loud!! LOL! This is the "After" photo - the loggers cut up some of the bigger parts and piled them up for us.
I hope I haven't bored you with our dead tree story! :-)
((hugs)), Teresa :-)
Glad hubby is safe and the tree is down. You'll be nice and warm this winter with all that wood :)
ReplyDeleteLove the fall set up on your table from your earlier post too!
Nancy
I'm so glad everything happened without a hitch :) Your hubby is safe and sound and it looks like you have a ton of firewood at your disposal now! I really hope you have a fireplace. That'll keep you very snug this upcoming winter!
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Oh dear, I had no idea he was so high up there!!! My husband no longer trims our really tall queen palms, for the same reason! Too scary, too high, too dangerous! I love the moss growing on the barn!!! And I had to chuckle too, at the rv's. We only have one acre, and we have our motorhome, daughter and son in laws motorhome, a pontoon boat, a tow dolly that goes with son in laws rig, and my little brother sea doo boat!!! GAH!!!! I hate it! Hoping to get some of it cleared out soon. WE burn off branches on cool winter mornings too!
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PS Teresa, I looked for you on facebook, but couldn't find you. Friend me. I am Kris Fink Grover
Friend me too. Kris and Iplay this fun scrabble game. Kate stubenvoll. So, glad you had the pros come. Practicing on my birthday ipad thingt. Sorry about the typos.
ReplyDeleteGald you got your tree down..with very little damage..the campers, how cool your family wants to spend the night!! campfire!!
ReplyDeleteGlad they took care of it with little damage to property and no damage to people.
ReplyDeletePhew, that was some tree! Glad it's all sorted out - and I too had gawpwed at the trailers photo, glad you explained Teresa. Life is never boring over your way - err, today I have to go and take a few plants out of garden pots as the frost is on its way here. A breeze of a job compared to a whole tree - but, we Brits do operate on a much smaller scale over here :)) Di xx
ReplyDeleteOh my .. what a huge job. Glad he ended up agreeing to the professionals coming in. I wish we were allowed to chop a few trees down in my backyard but the authorities won't allow it. I have a few big gum trees (Aussie trees) and they are forever dropping leaves and junk all over my roof. They were here when we bought the house over 20 years ago .... all I can say is that whoever planted them in the first place didn't think too far ahead.
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference without that tree. I am glad you are happy with the professional job. The tree is minus all it's limbs but Dayle still has all of his! Do you have a fireplace?
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed hearing your tree story (we're going to have some tree surgery done here soon so it's of particular interest at the moment!) I'm so glad your hb is safe. What a huge tree it was! Have a happy day, Teresa.
ReplyDeleteHelen x
So glad he listened to you. That is really scary stuff. There is no way I could get up on that ladder like that, and men just run right up those things.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you hubby agreed to let the wood cutter come! It always makes me so nervous when mine thinks he should be doing things I think he shouldn't. They never grow up :)
ReplyDeleteHi Teresa,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, love your new header with all those beautiful dahlias, sorry it's been a while since I've been able to stop by. I'm glad your hubby survived the tree episode unscathed and I am LOVING those barns, how I'd love to photograph my quilts against them!
Hen x
Oh Teresa I'm so glad I didn't see the other post first!! I'd have bitten all my fingernails :-o So glad you guys got in a professional, much safer :-) xx
ReplyDeleteIt was good to hear that DH was ok Teresa and that he gave in and let you call in the professionals. He sounds like my DH - has to try and do it himself before admiting that we might need to get help. Anne x
ReplyDeleteGoodness me I think it was such a good idea to get the tree feller in, that was a monster of a tree...glad Hb is all in one piece.
ReplyDeleteJane x