On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:22:04 -0400, "Eisboch" 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.

This tree has been bugging me for five years.

http://www.eisboch.com/farmhousetrees.jpg

So, today, at 0932 hours (that's 9:32AM for youse civilians) I fired up my
14" Poulan and started walking towards the tree.

At 0932.5 hours (that's 9:32 and 30 seconds AM) I was placed under arrest
by the Duxbury police per order of the town Conservation Commission.

ROTFL!!!

As I was taking the tree down, I got to the pole stage and this guy
from CL&P (Connecticut Light and Power) drove up - said that one of
his meter readers had been driving by and saw me taking down the tree.
Apparently there is some kind of requirement that when trees are
within 15 feet of a power line, you have to notify CL&P who surveys
the tree and decides if you can take it down or whether is has to be
taken down by them - payed for by me of course.

Whoopsie. :)