Since we finished or almost finished, the office. We are still needing to put in the window sills, we haven't done much work around here. Instead, we have done two complete remodels of rent houses, painted the exterior of both plus one more, and taken two vacations. We have another house we will completely redo in October so we won't get anything started around here until after that.
One thing we have had done is something that has bothered me since we bought this place. We had multiple dead trees along the street. They were huge! The county took the two largest ones down for us; the other two we needed to tackle. It would mean rope and pulleys and blocking off the street or taking our fence down. We have found this wonderful tree guy in town who is so affordable, read that as cheap.
These were the two trees that you saw as soon as you turned the corner onto our road. Talk about UGLY.
Bob and his crew brought the bucket truck out and started to work. You could tell they had worked together for a long time. The only words spoken were to train the young guy and to tease the dickens out of each other. If one guy wanted to take a break, he quit, took a walk and then came back and asked for his job back.
We took our little trailer down and they piled the branches on it. We hauled them up to the burn pile instead of paying them to haul them off. Let me word that differently; I drove the 4 wheeler with the trailer and they rode along then offloaded the debris to our burn pile. These guys were great.
I tried to figure out a way to get them to let me ride in the bucket but couldn't. Only Bob went up in the bucket.
They cleaned the areas up so well. I don't know if we would have left things this clean.
After the bucket the next crew started in with the chain saw.
Bob went on to the next tree while two others finished the first tree.
These power lines and a gas line were another concern of ours.
This tree was so dead that after trimming the very top branches.
The bucket, sans Bob, was used to push it down. Didn't even disturb the soil so you know the roots were gone.
After the trimmers were finished Bob's brother came in with the stump grinder and got rid of all evidence of the trees. Look at all that firewood. The little stuff goes to the lake and the big stuff Tiffany will use in their fireplace.
Now we have a beautiful clean line of living trees. Those ugly things blocking the house are gone never to be seen again. Except as firewood.
