TIMBER

Well, we are proceeding on our garage project. Thursday they took down several trees. Several smaller trees came down, one beside the driveway and a couple others near this BIG oak tree. This professional crew is pretty fast.

Here is a picture of this 'twin' oak tree. That means that it is one tree at the base with 2 trees growing from that one spot.

A friend, Gordon (Maryanne's husband) came over to watch. He is taking the straight pieces of the tree to a sawmill to make into boards. I thought this was a great picture of 2 men with their heads tipped back watching the guys work, admiration of the talent that it takes to do this work.

They cut off all the branches and then cut down the tree. It was quite a sight to watch.

This one tree is left standing without any branches. It is ready to come down in pieces.

The trees are gone now. It really opened up that section where the garage will go. The tree was really big. The pieces on the right will go to Gordon to cut into lumber. There is a pile on the right that we really don't know what will happen to them. They are long but they have branches that were cut off and don't make as good of lumber.

You can see in this picture how big the trees really were.
The garage will go right there just beyond the tree trunk that is in the yard. You will enter from this direction. It will have 2 doors and hole Bud's toys.

This is the pile that is up for grabs. It is too big for us to use as firewood because we can't cut it up into smaller pieces and split it.

Here is the trunk. It really looks much bigger in person. Someone is coming next week and pulling out the trunk.

This is the pile that was cut up into small enough pieces for Bud to split. Anyone want a weekend job of splitting wood????