[TheForge] Brainstorming -- Trouble with trees (OT)

[Dave Mudge]

On the subject of "The Trouble With Trees".......
A couple of pictures can be worth a million words, or quite a lot of money.
Take a look at what happened to my shop.

BEFORE:

http://magichammer.freeservers.com/images/Katrina/shop_before.jpg

AFTER:

http://magichammer.freeservers.com/images/Katrina/shop_after.jpg

dave m


On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
>
> > Trees can be a bitch.  You turn around and they're enormous!  How do I
> > trim them now!!!?
>
> In the early 70s, a neighbor allowed as how he had to cut down an
> enormous and spectacular beech that grew a few feet from his house.
> He was in his early 70s himself and opined, "It don't have to come
> down now but if I wait till it has to, I may be to old to do it."
> Down it came.
>
> My anvil stump for 30 years was a big crotch from that tree, with
> space enough to hold a swage block alongside.  Now passed on to Gerry
> Levy for his Peter Wright.  I still have a stake anvil mounted in one
> of the other chunks.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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