One tree down and one to go!

Our yard was very messy and had not been taken care of for a long time when we moved in. We spent a lot of time just cleaning up all the junk laying around and raking lots and lots of leaves this spring. Can you see the big topless Blue Spruce in the back corner? Well....

We got a bid to remove this tree and the large walnut tree. They wanted $900. I know you think we are crazy for cutting the trees down. The problem is the pine tree did not provide any shade and takes a large part of the back yard. The walnut tree is not in very good health. And the branches spread over the house and invite unwanted guest. (More on that later). We want to put in several fruit trees along the back fence. So Joe started cutting a little at a time with the bottom branches.

You can see that he can now stand up and cut the branches out one at a time.

I thought about keeping our Northern Palm Tree. . . . for about a minute.

All gone! Now we get to haul out all the branches.This is a little over half the branches. I thought it would take 5 trailer loads. Boy, Joe sure can pack things in!

A shot of the back yard this morning. Much better.