In my header above there is a very large silver maple tree.
Below I have cropped the header photo to focus on the tree in my neighbor's yard.
It's a tree with a very big trunk but some time ago it must have lost its center. No one ever limbed it up with the result that through the years the branches grew to be the size of trunks and very spread out.
Tuesday morning we heard trucks arrive and saw a tree service setting up.
At first we thought they were going to limb it up after all some of the limbs were over the house.
As the day progressed we realized that was not happening.
The tree was coming down.
Our neighbor lives alone and has battled with the piles of leaves this tree produced every year.
I guess this year she decided she'd had enough with the leaves and the threat of damage to her roof.
Most of the wood went into the chipper. That was very loud all day.
The biggest sections were set aside and on Wednesday we say the claw machine take them to the back of her property.
It was a sad sight to see such a magnificent tree meet its death.
You can see where the major trunk was divided years ago.
No more branches.
The stump cut into two pieces and
Wednesday the stump below soil line was ground up by this remote controlled machinery.
The neighborhood will miss that tree.
...this wasn't cheap!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the tree was pretty hollow in spots! A big danger to any humans or cars under it. A hollow tree we had experts fell, had squirrels running out of it when thunked onto the ground! Yep, that was an expensive job, probably around $2,000. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteOh, poor tree. It served the neighborhood well for years and now gone. Sad.
ReplyDeleteI'm always sad when a tree is taken down, even though it had dead spots throughout...it was probably there when horses pulled wagons and carriages along the way...or perhaps it was in a woods before the church was built.
ReplyDeleteBoth our backyard lilac tree and lilac bush met with problems this year. We will have to see if any of the remaining parts survive the winter.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child there was a hollow oak tree nearby. Small children could stand inside and look right up out of the hollow trunk and see the sky. It still had branches and a healthy show of leaves each year. Goodness knows how long it had been like that, but it survived until my adulthood when developers cleared the fields and built houses all over them. Can you tell that I still miss it, even though many years have passed and I live far away?
ReplyDeleteyes, having had many trees down here(Ponderosa Pines) that tree was not cheap. Rates here in my area are running about $4500 and that was 2 years ago. Especially if you need the boon which they did.
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