Our house is surrounded by trees. Lots of trees. Box elders, maples, spruce, poplars, aspen, and a huge birch tree are just some of them. The birch tree was a thing of beauty, towering high and weeping low. Until the last few years. They don't last long and then there's the birch borer. This year our beautiful tree was a sad sight. Over three-fourths of it was dead and Dan knew it had to come down.
A few weeks ago he put in a call to his good buddy, Dennis, and they made plans to take it down. A tree as large as this one takes some planning and they did that in short order. The tree had a fork down low and so they began by attaching a cable high up on the taller southern section and running it to the back of our pickup. This would ensure that it fell in the right place. With Dan manning the truck to keep the cable taut and Dennis on the saw, they began.
They've worked together for so many years on various projects and hunting that they know each other well. They worked quickly and efficiently and in short order, both sections were down and by nightfall, all that was left were a few leaves and stacks of cut limbs. Another biggie on Dan's list was scratched off! (And two days later they rebuilt the chimney in Dennis's garage.) ♥
It's a tug at the heartstrings to lose a beautiful tree, but it sounds like you were prepared for the inevitable. It's good to have a buddy -- and be a buddy.
ReplyDeleteSo true! These two have undertaken many projects together and have complete trust in the other. Dan has often said that if he was ever lost in the woods, he knows there are two guys who wouldn't stop until they found him--Dennis and my brother.
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