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Friday, May 31, 2013

Rural re-newal

This large sycamore tree was leaning dangerously over our stream. It was about to fall onto a walnut tree, so we had to cut both trees down, before we could start a project to straighten the stream's flow of water and fix the eroding bank.

I had my lumber-jack buddy come do the tree felling since it was a complicated and dangerous job. He cut the walnut first (on the right), which fell onto the sycamore, which he cut second.

The sycamore crashed into the stream sending up a huge splash (which I didn't catch).

K8 had to remove an old barbed wire fence we found along the top of the bank just behind the downed tree.

We started cutting up trees and dragging them out of the water.

K8 is sitting on the lower trunk of the walnut. More photos to follow, but I have to stop tonight because a pretty strong storm is blowing overhead at the moment.

2 comments:

  1. The crossing trees looked alright. Of course if the right storm went through it would have needed to be moved anyway. Now it is sunnier!

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  2. That's too bad. It looked really cool in that first pic!

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