One was a pine in the back that had died. The other was one of the remaining blue spruces that have a fatal fungus, and the last was a huge ash tree that had been killed by ash borers.
Lots of photos here. I have little commentary except to say that I was sorry to see the blue spruce go, but it was dying and too close to the bedroom. The fellows did a great job of clean up and removal, too, for a very decent price. (I had a lot more photos to show you, but the blogger photo loader isn't working again, so I had to do a work-around that was tedious and taking a long time.)
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| The big and now dead ash tree. |
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| Guy stuff. |
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| They tied off the trees at the top (I missed how they managed to get the ropes up there). |
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| This is the pine tree in the back. |
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| This machine holds the rope taut so it will fall in the right direction as it is cut. |
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| Cutting the tree. |
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| And it's on the ground. |
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| This is my one-beautiful blue spruce. This one really made my heart hurt. |
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| There's a guy in the tree tying off the rope. |
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| Cutting. |
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| The tree is falling. |
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| It is on the ground. |
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The ash tree required extensive climbing and cutting away of huge branches. The branches on this were as big
as some trees. I have more pictures, but, loading issues.
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| Mr. Young Gun up in the tree. |
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| The cute little machine doing its clean up stuff. |
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| The tree had a hollow spot. |
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| And it's down. |
You live in a very beautiful area. Losing trees, even if they are not doing well, is always sad.
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