Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Goodbye, Mr. Oak Tree!

I posted the pictures from this morning's tree removal. I really didn't expect it to be so interesting... Three guys showed up and took the tree down in a few hours. One guy climbed the tree and cut down limbs with ropes, and the other two guys helped guide the limbs come down and worked on chipping and clearing away debris.

The pictures are available in Picasa, so you can follow this link and view the slideshow:
http://picasaweb.google.com/reenie716/TreeRemoval
2010?feat=directlink

Here's the before picture:
And after:

This will take a lot getting used to... We'll miss the tree terribly, but are happy not to come home and find it in the middle of our chimney!

I'll post some video when I get a chance to piece through the footage and load them into Youtube.

2 comments:

Sharon Andy Holderman said...

I can't believe how different it looks! That will be quite an adjustment. Maybe we'll cut ours down this year...were you happy with their service? And why didn't you get the stump ground...I can't remember?

Maureen Lerch said...

I was very happy with their service once we were able to arrange the service. We had to deal with weather and they cancelled very last minute the first time. All in all, they did a really nice job. We'll get the stump ground later this summer after we bump up our savings again :-)