Goodbye Tree

 Apparently one of the old trees on my court has carpenter ants and the town ordered it removed. 

The danger is that the trunk and limbs lose their integrity and could be downed in a strong wind. And we have had some mighty strong winds with these summer storms.

It’s quite the procedure.  The first guy is in a lift like you see the power workers use.  He ties off the limbs and using a chainsaw works his way across the top of the tree.

The big truck has a crane with a cable that the lift guy attaches to the limb. When the limb is freed it’s lowered to the ground 

On the ground there’s another worker with a chainsaw. He remove the smaller limbs until there is just one big log remaining.

All the leaves and smaller branches are fed through a mulching machine. The large limbs are cut into manageable size pieces and in the end everything is removed and the area cleared, like they were never there.

That’s a lot of wood, but I don’t know whether it’s good for fire wood. 

It’s quite the setup and a lot of my neighbours, like myself, are intrigued and sat to watch.