After much planning it was time for the menacing tree, that was crowding out our driveway, to finally come down. 
Bob had Chris use his old climbing spurs that he used when he was Chris's age. The funny thing about it was that even though they are still in pretty good shape and safe to use, we saw them in a museum in Alaska when we went on our cruise in June. That wasn't very encouraging to Chris when he found out, but he braved the adventure anyway.
Bob had Chris use his old climbing spurs that he used when he was Chris's age. The funny thing about it was that even though they are still in pretty good shape and safe to use, we saw them in a museum in Alaska when we went on our cruise in June. That wasn't very encouraging to Chris when he found out, but he braved the adventure anyway.
Strapping on the climbing spurs.
Chris lopped the limbs as he went up.
And then tied a rope around the tree about 2/3 of the way to the top.
Bob, Rich and Paul piled the limbs to keep them out of the way.
Rich and Bob preparing for the next step of cutting the tree down.
Cutting the wedge.
The last cut... Bob wasn't too happy that I got this picture, when he looked up and saw that I was standing too close to where it was going to land.
They tied a pulley around another tree and pulled on the rope to keep the tree going in the right direction as it fell.
The tree fell exactly where Bob wanted it to and they all helped to get it cut up and out of the way.
I had a few more pictures of Rich helping but they all turned out blurry. They were working real fast to get it all done before it got dark and I thought I was getting some good pictures of them working but I wasn't careful enough to get them in motion without the blur. 
One of the logs in motion as they pulled it over to the barn with the quad.
1 comment:
Look at Bob go! There is some of grampa being chaneled there. :) Glad everyone one was safe and it worked out the way you all wanted. Love ya
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