The Trees

Can you find Ben in this photo?

Yep, he's the guy in brown with a chain saw up in the air on the skid steer bucket.  Nice.  Makes me terribly nervous, but it certainly helps get big tree limbs down. We're working on a long row of trees that hasn't been cleaned up for many, many years.  Some trees are dead, some have huge parts of them that are dead and have flopped down over other trees.  The trees are a real mess, but we certainly enjoy working our way through them.

There's instant gratification from taking a row of trees from being a mangled mess and cutting away the bad limbs until a healthy row of trees remains.

The skid steer is helpful in pushing piles of limbs to a place to burn them and as a play space for the boys.

Plus, my dad purchased this fancy contraption for the skid steer.

And he put it to the test to help take down a tree.

It's not really meant to take down entire trees - more for trimming limbs, but it managed to cut the tree down.

It made for an exciting 2 minutes as we watched the new saw make the tree fall.
The good news about the row of trees Ben and I are working on is that we've made good progress so far in our 3 weeks of working on it.  The bad news, is that we have a LONG way to go.