What’s that old saying or question, something
about if a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear, does it
make a sound? Let me tell you that when a tree falls in town, it makes a lot
of noise…trucks, cranes, chainsaws and mulchers. It was an interesting thing to
watch, so organized, every man doing his job…that of cutting down the tree
beside my place.
It was determined that the tree was dead,
the large limbs and branches at the top a constant danger as any strong wind
could have them breaking loose and flying down to the ground below. The ice
storm had started the tree on a path to its downfall, but a few days of high
winds had sealed its fate.
There were two large trucks, one with a
crane and the other with a bucket lift. The back of the second truck was like a
dump truck, as it would be filled with the mulch created by the machine that
was pulled behind.
One man operated the crane, moving a steel rope that a
second man in the bucket would secure around limbs at the top of the tree. The chain
saws roared as the limb was cut off and lowered to the ground. The two man team
repeated this action until they lifted the top of the tree off, then a large
section of the trunk and finally the remainder of the trunk, leaving a short
stump behind.
A two man ground crew used chainsaws to cut
the smaller limbs off the large sections, hauling them over to the mulcher and
shoving them in. I was amazed at how large the pieces were that could be
mulched.
The trucks arrived with a roar at 11:22 and
were done in about two hours, leaving behind a stump and a pile of logs to be
cut into firewood. The area was raked clean and left as tidy as when they
arrived. The huge logs were cut into manageable pieces that day and the next,
and hauled away to be split into firewood. There’s not enough of a stump
remaining for me to make it into a fairy house, but if they leave it as it is,
I’ll cover it with a pretty pot of flowers.
All in all, it was an impressive thing to
see.
1 comment:
In college there were a few of us that would gather and during moments of our slightly altered conscious states would attempt to answer some of life's unanswered questions...
Here's the best answer I've heard about a tree falling in the forest and does it make a sound if there's no one there to hear it?
No.
The tree falling would not create a sound, but rather would create sound waves. But if there was no one or no recording device to interpret the sound waves in to sound then the sound waves would just dissipate.
Makes sense to me.
Why the chicken crossed the road is still a mystery, we were never able to solve that one.
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