Excellent Tree Cutting Adventure

Work on cutting down a dead tree at the cottage had been planned for some time. Emergency services in the vicinity had been alerted and advised of Paul's blood type. Everyone hoped that someone else remembered what tree had to be cut now that they had no leaves and all appeared equally dead.

Paul and Judy went up the night before to try to warm the cottage by morning. John, Gael, Gabe, Fran, and David arrived Saturday midday. John bought a chain saw, newly bought for the cottage, and David brought an extension ladder which he bought that morning in Peterborough, also for the cottage. Paul brought a willingness to climb said ladder and attach a rope to the tree, in the hope that it would aid in determining where it fell (it didn't). Gabe brought snowshoes. Gael, Judy and Fran brought food and wine and bonhomie.

The tree fell in a good place, to no one's credit but nature's. It missed everything valuable, including the water vent pipe, and only took out a few branches of the old cedar tree.

No neighbours were annoyed in the cutting down of this tree.



Paul and Gabe Study the Situation



Paul up a Tree



Success



Paul Surveys the Damage



John Gathers Firewood



The audience was smaller than expected.



The Cottage in Winter



Walk Around the Lake







The Lake in Winter

Tools and Equipment Bought

Extension Ladder:

David bought this at Home Depot in Peterborough in March, 2007, at a cost of $142.50.

Chain Saw:

John bought this in early 2007 for $108.20 plus chain saw oil took it to around $120.00, however, John and Gael generously rounded it off to $100.00. There is a manual for the chainsaw in the boathouse.