Ode to Paul Bunyan

Well today they arrived to start taking down the 100 – 120ft pine trees in our front yard.  They were tall things with very few limbs and getting fewer with each passing wind storm.  The only living thing that enjoyed those trees was the red headed woodpecker because he could depend on a pounding out a beetle feast nearly every day.

So today, Cuz arrived with his side kick in hand.  They decided due to the enormous height of these trees to rent a bucket lift vs. simply climbing them.  The only problem, the lift didn’t reach high enough, so whats a fella to do?  Climb up out of the lift and into the tree of course!

My Mom was home to watch all of this action first hand and to snap photos as the action progressed.  So far, there have been very few incidents.  They did break a sprinkler head, which will have to be fixed but that is what happens when you are working in tight quarters.  Not too bad given at any given time we had a full size dump truck, bulldozer, bucket lift and several trucks in our yard.

So a big thank you to Ricky Isbell for clearing the trees once they were down.  It was a lot of work and it took a coordinated effort of (5) guys to get it done in one days time! Here is the photo show I put together so you can mark the progress with us!