Cutting Down Our Trees
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Bulk trash pickup day was coming up so it was time for the olive trees to go. I bought one of those cheap little electric chainsaws at Home Depot to cut olive trees down. Morgan would pull on the branch with a rope while I would cut the base of the branch. Worked perfectly every time, the branch would drop exactly where she would pull it to.

I pushed my pdracer off into the yard and used the trailer to carry the branches all the way around the end of the block and into the alley. Some of the branches were rather big and I chopped them up in the alley to get them under teh 4' max length allowed by the city trash pickup regulations.

On bulk pickup day, the crew showed up with this neat bobcat looking machine.

Also in the driveway was a basketball pole that had to go. The footer on it was atleast 24" in diameter, and about 24" deep. I whacked on it for a while with my 10 lb sledge hammer, but couldn't do anything besides round off the corners. We rented an electric jackhammer from Home Depot and busted up the rest of the concrete.

Yes, she really is running the jack hammer. I held the 3rd handle so it wouldn't fall on her, and she would operate the 2 side handles and squeeze the handle to drive it.


I didn't get any pictures of having the big pine tree cut down, but do have a video of it. [click here]


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