Tree trimming - as in major cut down trees in the yard

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That guy in the top of the tree  is a little hard to see, but he is indeed up there, way up there, tying off limbs and lowering them to the ground. 

Late last week, we had a crew of six men here trimming some major limbs and cutting down some trees in our yard.  Made for one really interesting day.

The roping and careful lowering was to avoid taking down the telephone and power lines to the house.

There was a cherry picker or bucket truck with a guy in the bucket who wielded a chain saw like he enjoyed it.  And traversed the sky in that bucket like he enjoyed that too.  Notice in the photo below he is pushing the cut section of the tree off to fall to the ground.

 Here in lower center you can see a falling section of the tree - and swaying remainder of the now getting shorter formerly rather tall pine tree.

 There was also a wood chipper along with the bucket truck -- the tree climber and the man in the bucket ran the chain saws, and the other four put the cut limbs through the chipper.  We are talking a noisy operation.  (I had in my ear plugs)

 The bucket guy went out over the house

 and up high

 and sent a lot of stuff to the ground to be ground up - some crashing to the ground

 and some rather carefully by rope networked around tree notches and controlled from the ground

all in all it was a very interesting day and running that chain saw and riding in that bucket did look like fun but it is not something I think I will take up doing even though I am retired and do have some time.