The tree comes down

After months of begging and pleading, we finally got a company to come out and take down the tree from our back yard. Service out here isn't quite what we're used to, but these guys were great. They were in and out in under an hour and did a great job. Here are a couple of before and after pix:

They brought in 3 trucks to handle the job: a crane, a log hauler, and a chipper. And by chipper, I mean, "one bad machine". They chipped almost the entire tree - it was a BIG tree. One of the guys rode the end of the crane up to the top. He attached the cable then cut it off in 3 sections. He just waited at the top strapped to the tree while they chipped up the sections. It took no time at all. Here is the beastly crane:



Here goes the top:


And the middle:


And the bottom:


Then into the chipper they go:

And here is the yard after our friend came down: