When I heard the buzz of power tools this morning I thought it was either my neighbour in his garage, or maybe the final end of no mow May on the green.
I was wrong.
It was April when a storm brought down one of the Plane trees on the green near my house crashing into the other tree next to it, scroll back to Changing Landscapes parts 1 and 2 to see what happened then.
Now someone has decided that the tall partial tree that was left is not safe. It is sandwiched between a busy road junction, which will get busier when the new tiny housing estate further to the left of the first road you can see is finished, and a roundabout. If the tree fell the likelihood of it falling on nothing much, unless it does it in the dead of night, is slight.
I am sad to see it go, but it is interesting to watch, as are the tree fellers (and there were three of them) who seem oblivious to danger.
By the time I had found my camera, the first branch had gone and the chipper had arrived. The feller is wedged in the fork with a portable chainsaw and his mates are clearing the ground underneath.
He quickly chopped off the second branch until only one is left. He now no longer has the fork to stand in.
Whoa! Down it goes.
I will now have to do Changing landscapes part 3 in 2 parts, because my blog programme doesn’t like too many pictures at once.
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