Dec. 17th, 2022, that was a storm. I had to look back and see what the trees looked like. The limbs simply broke off under the weight of the snow.
Jan. 14, 2023, more snow! This is Caitlin in her Polar Trek coat. JL brought it back to her after his trip to Antarctica.
Jan. 2nd – I'm whittling away at it!
The snow came and went. And still the branches mocked me. Jan. 2nd - 6th, I got on my horse, and used the reciprocal saw as much as I could. Every good morning, out whacking away. The bigger branches were too much for me.
March 12th, more snow, the branches still kept calling for me. The broken limbs look like human broken limbs.
Everyone liked the branches. The deer would sit in amongst the branches, nibbling the greens. Even the turkeys liked it as shelter.
I had had enough. I Googled 'tree services near me,' and found someone from down the road. I gave Robin and Steve a site tour explaining what I needed done. Robin then emailed a quote. We had a plan. April 3rd, 2023, the troops arrived late morning, as anticipated. The tractor, chipper, truck and 4 humans.
They paired up with the two large white pine trees. The stacked the branches in piles, which they picked up with that cool machine. Alexis was wearing the same Polar Trek coat as Caitlin. I didn't have a chance to ask her about it. They wore headsets embedded in their ear protectors and communicated with one another.
Jamie attacked this tree in the wind. We've a big storm coming today, thunder and lightning is crossing the province, and I am glad they got all this done. It was worth every penny.
tree climbing from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
I love this machine! They clamped a tree prior to chopping it. It was so safe. They can change the clamps for a scoop.
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The young lady is Alexis. She is a new grad from Algonquin College! She was up the tree, with a helper. They had harnesses, and all sorts of safety equipment.
Steve is a great teacher, with years of experience in the UK and Australia.
tree clean up from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
The cats weren't too happy. Nutmeg was just antsy. Cinnamon watched from the office window. He's a little more relaxed than she is!
They kept on working. Jamie chopped the limbs into 16" pieces for the wood stove insert.
They'd been gone about a half hour when Clover deer showed up! Everything looks good again, aside from the branches they'd lost.
13 comments:
Big job done. I had almost forgotten how little snow there was in early January.
You wonder what the deer were thinking.
Hari OM
Entertainment value as well as practical purpose! Bet that feels as good as having a decent hair cut! YAM xx
...white pines are gorgeous, but they can be brittle.
Wonderful work done! Love that tiny bobcat machine. A real workhorse. Such good news that deer have returned after all the hulabaloo. They claim their territory again! And you've a nice little stack of firewood.
You have beautiful trees! I'm glad you could find someone who could do such a good job.
WOW. What an amazing clean up. Yo would never have been able to do all that by yourself, so I suspect it WAS worth every penny you spent.
It is good to find a local company that does a good job. We had some really loud thunder this morning.
What a fantastic team of workers, even down to blowing the drive clean. Sometimes you just have to get the right team there and save some back ache yourself!!! Just think how lone it would have taken you to do all that, I know when we paid a tree feller to come and fell some of our trees, he was an expert as he swung from branch to branch. When he finished I asked if he was happy with the 17 trees he felled. His reply, " Yes, but the last one could have been 5 cm to the right, it just kissed that standing tree on the left" !!!Did you get the mulch as well ? p.s. our cat hates the ride on mower noise.
What an adventurous project. Glad you got their help. Yep, I guess some limbs do break like human bones. I didn't know the deer wanted to eat the evergreen from the downed limbs. Linda in Kansas
We're having the arborists come back to do a bit more trimming. They're an amazing team!
The tree people have had some major training and have fancy equipment for dealing with trees. we have planted trees that become too large for our yards so we have to get them down with all the buildings in the way.
That's a major job and I'm glad you had good people in to do the work. That's interesting about the deer eating the spots of the limbs.
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