No messing around

One of the trees in our yard is dying. Braches fall off on a weekly basis; we finally got tired of the ongoing mess asked to have it removed. Answering the doorbell this morning, I learned that today was the day for tree removal. Removal is exactly what they did. There was a chainsaw involved but no “cutting down”.

It was an amazing process that was over in a matter of minutes. By the time they rang my doorbell, the crane was already in place behind the back fence. A man climbed up the tree and attached a couple of cables, looped them on a hook suspended by the crane. That guy climbed down from the tree and another man fired but the chain saw and cut the trunk just above ground level. As soon and cut was completed, the crane operator, whisked the tree up and over fence, placing on the ground. Men immediately began cutting up the tree. They used a shredder for the branches and were done and gone in a half hour.



The hook up.

The cut.

The take off.

Flying away.