Maple Tree Removal
June 21st

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"Before."

It has gorgeous leaves at all seasons, but is rapidly encroaching on the house


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Up in the tree, cutting off the small branches.

Every branch was carefully dropped on our side of the fence.


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A small hand saw made a notch that allowed him to just bend the top of this branch over and drop it to the ground.


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About half of the tree to on the ground.


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Trim off those stubs, then cut a notch about 8 feet up - and off comes the top.


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Hauling the limbs to the front yard where the chipper is.


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Just a few minutes and all that remains is a post.


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The biggest piece going into the chipper.


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Trimming the stump down to ground level.


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This is all that was left!

The first picture we took was 2:05 PM (and likely cutting started about 2 minutes before). And the last picture was at 2:26 PM (with clean up finished about 10 minutes later) so 33 minutes to down a 15(ish) year old tree!


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Here is the view now from the location as the photo at the top of this page.


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