On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:55:07 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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This tree has been annoying me for a year.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/The%20Tree.JPG

So I decided to take it down today starting at 0900 hrs - 9 AM to you
civilians.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictu...with%20Hat.JPG

About 1030 I got to this point.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictu...with%20Hat.JPG

Working carefully, I finally got to this point at 1200 hrs - noon to
you civilians - after chipping all the branches and dumping the chips
in the neighbors back yard as he wanted them for mulch and compost.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/The%20Pole.JPG

Finally at 1630 hrs - 4:30 PM to you civilians - I finished with the
stump grinder, cleaned all the trash (300 mph back pack leaf blowers
are the greatest invention since the wheel), back filled the hole,
leveled out the lawn and finished.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictu...0no%20more.JPG

At which point I sat on the tail gate of my truck, smoked a cigar,
drank a liter of Diet Pepsi and admired my work.

Tomorrow, I will not be able to move and I'm already feeling like I've
been hit by an eighteen wheeler. :)

I really need to get into better shape.

Nice work Tom.

Funny thing about that tree. Up until last year, about this time, it
was only about as tall as that ladder. Over the summer, it just took
off and exploded with growth resulting in a really ugly tree.

I counted the rings - it was 8 years old which means it was planted
about a year before we bought the place.

Incredible.