Last winter at the Woodpile, we all had a number sleepless
nights during snow storms as we listened to the cracking and falling of large
limbs from an old pine tree that towers over our homes. Some of those branches
came close to caving in a few burrows as they crashed to the ground. The
Woodpile Council decided it was time to remove it before any critters got hurt.
We consulted a professional forester, Woody the Woodpecker. He took one look
and said it was too big a job for even the mightiest Woodpeckers. Our best
option was to hire some humans with a crane and chain saws. He offered to
supervise and make the arrangements.
We didn’t think much more about it until one morning at 7:15
am the Woodpile was struck by an earthquake and loud noises. We rushed to our
burrow entrances to find a monster yellow crane rolling into the Woodpile. It
was followed by the largest wood chipper we had ever seen. I grabbed my camera
and took some photos.
The crew sets up the giant crane
It was taller than the largest tree
A worker gets a lift to the top of the tree
So he could attach the red straps to it, and then he
cut the top off.
The crane lifted the top away like it was a stick of fire
wood.
The ground crew cut the limbs off and grabbed it with this
mechanical arm
Then they ground them up in the chipper.
They cut the tree up into different sections until all that
was left was the bottom of the trunk
They created the largest woodpile anyone had ever seen.
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