Showing posts with label tree trimmers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree trimmers. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The tree trimmers

Working for an electric cooperative, I knew the day was coming. Tree trimmers are hired to keep the right of way under power lines cleared.

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, the power lines run right up along the side of our long drive way. I say fortunately, because by trimming, they can keep the branches from scraping the cars and trucks that come in. However it does drastically change the view.

Yesterday morning, we got a knock on the door at 7:40. The trimmers had arrived.

Luckily, I knew they were in the area so I took this picture the day before.


Just a short time later it was starting to look like this.

Later this . . .



Even Bentley notices the difference.


It's all trimmed, chipped, and opened up.



Here's the machine that did it all. It's a Jarraff All-Terrain Tree Trimmer.


Notice the big saw blade.




All this took place in a matter of about 5 hours. It only took one batch of cookies to bribe the guys not to butcher my big cedar trees!