The Tree Feller................

..................................... and his wife!
came  last week to cut down 4 trees.

 This is the (foggy Thursday morning) before work photo, with the trees.....Willow and Poplar overhanging and some branches actually sitting on the roof of the workshop, with their roots probably damaging the floor underneath.

 This is the lady up a tree, one down already, 3 more to come down.

And afterwards

Looks like complete devastation, but the stumps remain and the willows will regrow from the bottom to make a hedge rather than huge trees. There's now nothing to fall on the workshop or the farmers field and the roots can't damage the floor.

 and there is a huge pile of logs. The ones above Col will cut up when he can borrow a big chainsaw and the ones below he will cut  with his own chainsaw sometime. They are not in the way where they are so can lay for a year.

I really don't like seeing big trees cut down but sometimes it makes sense and of course we've planted lots of trees to replace them at the bottom of the meadow where they can do no harm.

The young couple will be back in a couple of weeks to do something to the Ash trees overhanging the garden behind the house, and SHOCK next door neighbours have offered to go halves on the cost of one tree which is in the boundary hedge close to their house.

Thank you for all the comments and reminiscences on the Guy Fawkes post. I watched the first of the 3 part drama -informative but pretty gruesome.

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