Trees and MORE SNOW

What a crazy week! The tree guy contacted us saying he would drop off the bucket truck Tuesday and deal with our trees Wednesday. I had planned to visit the Lake house that day so off I went at 8 AM. B had the camera and would take pictures as they worked. I got home a bit before noon and they were well into the job.

We have two groupings of trees they would deal with - one large, one small. By the time I got back to the house, they were working on the larger group of trees. One guy was up a tree with a safety rope and was removing several large branches that were hanging over our neighbor's fence. As well as removing very large branches and trimming off small branches, several trees had been cut close to the ground.  The pictures tell the story quite well!

I took this picture Tuesday. The ground was covered with debris from the trees as it was very windy over the weekend!

One of the many branches that had blown down. There were more branches caught in the trees.

This was the truck that they had brought the day before. It was driven up our driveway and onto the grass at the top of the hill. Since the bucket was on a very long arm the truck could stay at the top of the hill. 

There was a crew of 5 guys working much of the time.

Honey felt it was her responsibility to supervise. She really enjoyed watching (supervising) them. Notice the snow on the deck from the weekend.

 

The group of trees on the right needed some serious trimming as well as several trees removed. 

This tree, to the far right, had branches that hung over the fence. The guy had on a safety line as he needed to climb out the branches to get to where the trimming was needed. Before he cut the branch, he attached a line to some of the very large branches to make sure they "fell" where he wanted them to go rather than into our neighbor's fence!

And then someone on the ground removed them.

And the branches and debris were then taken over the the large shredder where sone additional workers put them into the very large shredder that was parked in our neighbor's driveway. This is just some of the pile that needed to be removed.

And when they were done, they did a great job of cleaning up!

The area is much cleaner and I don't have to duck when I'm out walking Honey.With the wind we get here having the trees trimmed was a real safety need!

And today, it's again cold and snowing! Right now the temperature is 35 and the snow that has fallen (and is falling) is melting as the ground is wet from the heavy rain we had overnight.  So glad we haven't yet put any bushes or bulbs in the ground. Sure hope it warms up soon so we can enjoy our back yard.