Two Big Firs Felled - 10/18/04
Photos By Michael
Prepared By Michael Kemp michael@kempclan.com

  
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Here's the big fir leaning over the house...
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... it's pretty obvious which way it wants to fall.
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It's a little hard to see, but the tree up against the yurt stairs has two tops ... one of them rotten and riddled by huge holes (courtesy of the pilliated woodpeckers).
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Chris's truck was too big to turn around ... so they had to back all the way in --- pushing the chipper!
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They had to thread the needle with the truck and chipper ...
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... to get in position ...
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... to get up in the air ...
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... to trim out dead maple and oak branches ...
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... which meant threading the needle with the cherry picker ...
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... so Chris could cut the dead wood ...
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... before it comes down on it's own ...
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... where we park our cars!
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One last shot of Chris getting up into the tops of the trees.
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Meanwhile ... Brandon took care of a maple that was in the way of felling the fir by the house.
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Then he limbed the fir almost to the top ...
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... attached a VERY heavy duty rope ...
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... and here's Brandon rapelling back down ...
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... to the ground.
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The winch on the chipper is attched through block and tackle (on a tree uphill from the big fir) to the top of the big fir.
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The butt of the tree is also tied off. The curve of the trunk will make it "kick" when it falls.