If a tree falls in the woods...

For anyone what has ever been to my house you have seen that huge maple tree that was growing in the middle of the back desk. It was a nice tree that provided a lot of shade. The only problem with it was that it had out grown everything that was built around it. It was starting to destroy the deck and the supporting around it. So, a couple of weeks ago my parents came out to stay for a couple days. While they were here I decided to put my Dad to good use. I took a day off work and we cut down that big old tree. It was a huge undertaking, but with a lot of prayer, everything fell right where we wanted it.

Here is a picture of the tree the day that we bought our house. This was before we cut any of the branches back.


The next two pictures are right before we cut it.



In this picture you can see how the wood that was framed in around the tree was being pressed by the tree.


Finally, after a long stressful day the tree is down. This is only the second half. I was to worried till the last one was down to even think about taking pictures of the first half. It actually fell right where this one did, but we had already cut it up and pulled it away. Notice also how the snow has mostly melted. This made for some rather large ruts in the yard. I'm going to have fun this spring. Notice in the first picture below how close it fell to the deck. Also, the in last three pictures how the tops fell right between the play set and the bird feeder pole. We couldn't of done any better. I thank the Lord that everything went well.