This morning, I ate my breakfast watching our view of the Reservoir get better and better. The first day we looked out the windows both Ken and I said immediately that the trees needed to be trimmed. That was two years ago. Finally. It has been done.
Watching the men at work was fascinating. One young man with a long pony tail was 40 feet up a tree holding on with the spikes in his boots and a rope holding him safe. He must put ropes around both ends of the branch coming down. Two strong men held the ropes and lowered it down to the ground, after the young man had cut off the section to be removed. While he is 40 feet up, he reached down to pick up his chain saw, starts it up and while holding on with one arm cuts through the wood. It was quite a feat and very labor intensive. And the two young men did it all day, while the other 6 looked after the wood on the ground.
I feel sure these young men have never studied physics but there was lot of it going on today. They used lots of ropes and pulleys. And lots of the things you use when climbing. I was impressed. They worked all day, taking 30 minutes for lunch and they left at 4. Both front and back were left neat as a pin. And when we sat on the deck this evening both Ken and I were delighted with the new view of the water. Our trees have finally been trimmed.
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