I recently noticed a pile of wood shavings under one of our trees near our driveway. I looked up to see that the tree was riddled with woodpecker holes and looked half dead. Our power line to the house runs overhead right next to the tree with one branch actually over the wire, so if it fell, it would take out our power. I knew it was time to call in 'the specialists', Dave and Karl, who work great as a team when it comes to cutting down trees. Yesterday, Dave started up Hercules, the Ford 555, and attached our gigantic 1 1/2" tugboat rope to the tree and Herc. He pulled the tree away from the power lines and house while Karl cut the tree. I was the relay person, watching Karl's progress and telling Dave when to start backing up.
As you can see from the photos, there are lots of other trees it could have taken down along its way to the ground. Things didn't go quite as expected, but actually it turned out even better, because it got jammed between two small trees. Dave just pulled it the rest of the way down with Hercules and it made less of a mess than if it had taken the other trees with it. "Great minds at work"...
Then it was time for me to join the team and get on the New Holland to clean up branches and pull the tree trunk into the woods (Karl will cut it up later to burn and help heat his house this winter).
You can see why I was concerned about the condition of the tree. The woodpeckers will hopefully stay in the woods now, where there is so much more to choose from.
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