Alright not so much a forest removal as finally getting the great big pile of tree out of my front yard. Last weekend I finally had the opportunity to do something about getting rid of the roughly 8ft x 8ft x 8ft pile of tree that used to be a tree in my front yard, had a brief stint as a tree in my neighbors front yard, and then became a large brush pile in my front yard.
A good friend of mine sent out a mass e-mail a few weeks ago wanting to coordinate a dump run for anyone with some stuff lying around their house they wanted to get rid of. I say good friend because when I reported back to him that I did in fact have some stuff and oh by the way it was a pile of tree parts roughly the size of a modest second bedroom he didn't immediately hang up the phone.
Last weekend amidst the rain, intermittent hail, and drizzle he showed up at my house with our 26' box truck and we tossed the whole mess in the back and carted it off to the office to fill the dumpster. In fact, we looked like such professional drowning rats that we were asked by a random passerby if we did stump removal too. If there were any two people in this world who looked less like rugged lumberjacks ready to put in a hard days work at the mill hauling timber Sam & I are probably in a three way split with Justin Long for the trophy.
Luckily for us it only poured rain for half of the time that we were loading and unloading the truck. But it was totally and completely worth every ounce of soaking wetness to have this pile of stuff gone and forgotten.
Now I just need to work on remedying the fact that my front yard still looks like a large subterranian boring machine surfaced for air before continuing on it's journey to the center of the earth.