Earlier in the week, I noticed C and Grant (his cousin) pulling entire sheets of bark off of a pine tree right next to the playset. I thought that very odd, so I went to see what was going on. What I found when I got over there was SUPER CREEPY! As the boys were pulling off huge chunks of bark, termites were streaming out everywhere....EEEEEEKK! The next day after the termites cleared out (hopefully they didn't relocate to our house!) I went over to get a better look. I took a shovel and barely touched the trunk and huge chunks of saw dust just fell to the bottom.
J was in Atlanta this week, so I showed him the tree Saturday morning. He did some figuring and ciphering and decided to go ahead and take it down. He's cut down big trees like this before - but normally with the assistance of my dad and/or brother-in-law. Not to worry though...he had some muscle at his disposal this time too...me :)
This 40 foot tree came down with out incident or injury! Go us (and praise the Lord :)!
The only thing I didn't really anticipate was that once J got the chainsaw all gassed up he would go on a tree-cutting-spree. (He insists it was a matter of practicality - all the tools were out and ready to go...I say the power went to his head :) At any rate, we also ended up taking down 3 very messy sweet-gum trees. They weren't nearly as big as the first tree, but because they were "live" and hadn't been eaten up by termites, the logs were HEAVY! Kinda confirmed to me just how trashed the first tree really was!
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