Life of 130 year old cottonwood comes to an end

in #life28 days ago

As I posted last week this 80 foot tall old tree was hollow at the base and hanging over the house. It needed to go.
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The equipment we had last week was not tall enough. We had to rent a 86 foot boom lift to do the job.

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It was quite a process that took a day and a half.
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We recovered what we could for fire wood
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The great big pieces will go to the ranch for snow catcher/windbreak
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I will also harvest buds and bark for medicine. It was quite a task but
we got it down.