{"id":392,"date":"2010-06-13T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-06-13T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:45:49","slug":"first-serious-tree-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"First Serious Tree Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<br \/>\nIn 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&#8217;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.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cimg1777.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cimg1777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our new free North side.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAnd I also took some breaks&#8230;. watching Germany win against Australia (4:0) in the World Cup and having some quality bonding time with Blaki.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-396\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cimg1765.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cimg1765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-396\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonding with Blaki while enjoying Germany versus Australia (4:0)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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