Jim has slowly been taking down the pines in our wind break, which is made up of a row of dying pines, a row of thorny, pod producing locusts, and lastly a row of cedars. Early in May we were approached by the power company wanting to top the cedars directly under the power line and Jim asked if they could just take the cedars out all together and they agreed to take part of them down. Since they were going down he decided all the pines should go and hired a friend who has a huge excavator to get it done in a hurry. That plan turned into a larger one, take out the locusts too, and further, some of the cedars as well, since the power company would only budget for removal of part of them.
Jim by himself.
The gaps in our windbreak are pines that have already been removed.
With an excavator, there is no cutting down of trees. The operator loosens the ground around the trunk and then picks up the tree and puts it on the pile.
These next few pictures show the emptiness that is showing up.
These pines are going to stay.
This is only the beginning.
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