Farewell Basswood Tree

Minneapolis, MN - Tyfoid Kid - Monday, June 5th, 2006 : goo

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Ever wonder how, in 3 hours, you can go from this

to this?

Well you'll need a crane,

A guy who's willing to ride on the cranes hook and wield a large chainsaw 50 feet in the air.

and a really big chipper.

Now we really hated to have to do anything with this tree. As you can see from the before shots it was about a 70 year old tree that had a very large canopy. We really liked our big tree. But it had a flaw that made it's existance above my neighbors childs bedroom mean we had to do something.

It was HOLLOW!!

You can't have a tree like that hanging over your neighbors house here in the land of Tornados. So $3000 later . .
And our neighbor whos house this tree hung over was very nice and let the crane haul the tree OVER his house to the street to meet its final end. Probably saved us $1000 to able to let them crane it out. Of course the cats like the new hole in the sky above the backyard now.

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TomJV: Cool pics. I'd love to do that job!

scott: that must be awsome to have that job

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