Yesterday and today I started my first serious attack on the trees reaching close to and over our house. I started with the North side where the trees are reasonably young still they are very high. In the first round I cleaned out the lower branches hanging over our parking spot. I used the ladder and cut the branches while standing on the ladder. The work was relatively straight forward. I left reasonably long remainders of the branches, as I was planning on using them as steps to later climb higher into the trees.
In the next two steps I left the ladder and mounted into the tree always staying on the trunk and carefully moving upward. While mounting upwards I removed the big branches towards out house and finally I reached the point where I could just take off the top of the tree without risking the remainders to fall on our house. It is almost 10m high and I worked carefully keeping my legs and at least one arm to secure myself. The cutting in all cases went very smoothly and as a result now all of the trees branches reaching towards our house are gone. It adds a lot of light to the kitchen, Gisele’s room and the attic, but most important of all it gives the roof some sun and no more easy access for squirrels or ants.
And I also took some breaks…. watching Germany win against Australia (4:0) in the World Cup and having some quality bonding time with Blaki.
storing highlights into the 'extended memory'