If a tree falls in the woods....

Well, more like when trees fall in the city. Today was the day for the huge ugly locust trees to come down. These are NOT small trees. E, my Dad's handyman, was in a 50ft bucket skid, and was barely making it 1/3 to 1/2 of the way up the tree. Yeah. BIG trees. We were able to down most of them without incident. Notice I said "most". Yeah, one fell in a different path than it should and landed on the trailer next door. Luckily, my Dad owns that property, so it's not that big of a deal. Ooops.

 The 50 foot boom skid.

 The first tree going down!

 This is why they have to come down. See the light part, that's healthy tree. The dark part that's MOST of the middle, that's all rotten.

 The second tree coming down! (Yes, I took pics of all the trees coming down. No, I won't bore you with it.)

 The aftermath of the second tree down.

 Dad hauling the logs from the trees with his tractor. Like I said, these a HUGE trees.

 Oops.

 Not exactly what we had planned.

 But, it is what it is. Good thing Dad owns the property though.

See, BIG trees. 50 foot boom full extended.

And here is a Before/After. It's not a very good one, but you can definitely see that we opened up the view.