Today we had to sacrifice about 25 trees to enable us to get power to our new house.\u00a0 Both sides of our land are lined with fir, birch and poplar trees.\u00a0 The fir trees and most of the birch\u00a0are fine but the poplar are not good near power lines.\u00a0 In high winds these are the ones that tend to go first.\u00a0 They grow really fast and before you know it they are taking your power out with the slightest breeze – they are really bendy trees.<\/p>\n
So, before our power poles can go in we had to remove the troublesome trees.\u00a0 To do this we enlisted the help of 2 of our friends from the village, Jim and Barb (or Chainsaw Jim as we call him).\u00a0 It took the four of us 3 hours to cut down, chop up, stack the log pile and clear all the remaining branches.\u00a0 When Jim gets going with the chainsaw there is not much that can stop him.\u00a0 He also knew exactly where they were going to fall, which was helpful given that Barb and I were darting in and out moving the branches to the back of the trees.\u00a0 We did have a little help from a passing snake partway through – but he was too small to make a real impact.<\/p>\n
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