Cleaning up Twisted and Broken Trees!
Last week, I blogged about the twister that ripped through my farm, devastating more than 120 beautiful trees. As you can imagine, this blow has been challenging for my grounds crew, as so many fallen trees are difficult to move and clear. I know how much you love seeing the farm so I wanted to share with you these photos of some of the cleanup that has been going on.
Oh, and by the way, thank you all for your lovely birthday greetings!
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- This was a stately linden tree that came crashing down over my stone wall and across the road, bringing down wires and blocking traffic.
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- This kind of tree removal requires special equipment and the expertise of professionals.
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- My friend, Ralph Robbins, from SavATree http://www.savatree.com/ brought his crew to work on the damaged trees along the road.
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- Ropes and pulleys are used to take the tree down one section at a time.
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- Dominick uses the loader to carry that tree trunk away.
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- My beautiful weeping willows were also damaged in the storm.
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- There are times when a cherry picker really comes in handy.
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- This arborist was able to get out all the broken branches quite easily.
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- When SavATree was finished clearing on the road, I asked them to clean up the willows. These truck supports help to stabilize the truck from tipping.
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- The willows were trimmed up within minutes.
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- Once the majority of the tree was sawed and taken away, the grounds crew worked to remove the massive trunk.
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- Heavy chains were wrapped around the base to help in lifting it out.
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- Alfredo used an ax to free the roots.
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- The fork-lift of the hi-lo was employed to lift the stump up and over the hornbeam hedge.
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- Dominick has quite a load to haul away.
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- Alfredo and Chhewang clearing and smoothing the pit.
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- This area will be seeded and perhaps planted with another linden tree.
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- More debris for the pile
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- That stump was added to the rapidly growing pile of broken trees that will eventually be passed through a stump grinder and turned into rich compost.
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- Alfredo used the John Deere to get a load of top soil.
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- The top soil is to fill in the hole that the stump came out of.
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- Load upon load has been taken to the compost yard.
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- Elsewhere on the property, many other fallen trees and branches were being cleared.
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- White pine branches being fed into the chipper
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- Very tall, straight trees are being sawed into 10-foot lengths for lumbering.
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- Again, Dominick uses a chain and the telescoping arm of the hi-lo to drag the timber out of the woods.
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- When the log is far enough out, the next 10-foot section is cut.
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- Chhewang uses that same loader to carry more debris.
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