BEFORE

Tree looking back from the house across the street to the church.

WEIRD

These are old trees that are twisted and grown together making weird formations

ROOT

Notice the root at the bottom. The orange is the reflective strip on my work glove.

CONFUSED TREE

The tree has actually grown back into its self

PILES OF BRUSH

Piles of brush built up around each tree as the tops came down. Most of them were free falled, except on the house side.

LOOK OUT BELOW

This is an optical illusion! Grandma is not in the path of any falling branches and Aaron is well aware of where she is.

ONE ALMOST DOWN

First tree is almost down

ALL TOPPED

Top are all off the four trees. What a difference it makes already!

CHURCH

Church in Bellchester

PREPING THE STALK

Getting ready to take down the stalk

TIGHING A ROPE

Tighting a rope to the top of the stalk to pull it in the correct direction when it is cut.

CHUNKING IT

Some of the stalks did not have a good flight path or landing zone and had to be "CHUNKED" or cut into smaller sections and dropped that way.

CHUNK

Neat chunk of wood

ANOTHER CHUNK

Another neat chunk of wood

DROPPING STALKS

Taking down a stalk as viewed between a couple of other stalks

FINAL CUTS

ALL DONE

Veiw of the final job from the church across the street

BIG WOOD

Some big wood to cut up and move

LOGS

Some of the logs from the trees

BURREL

We saved on nice burrel for ourselves