I have a large alder right infront of my deck that I had got fed up with blocking my oh so rare sun. I decided to prune it last week. It was a very bright sunny day, sorry for the quality of the shots.
Also, forgive the "white trashness" of my beech... I am waiting for the divers to come in repair and set a new anchor for my dock, so it sits on my beech...
1) Here is what it looked like when we started.
2) Climbing up to start the pruning.
3)One of the limbs being "pruned"
4)Working his way up the tree
5)topping it off
6) "Pruning" the final branch, TIMBER!
7) Count them up, 105 rings at best count!
8. AHHH, Finally, morning sun on the deck!
My BIL is going to use the trunk to make a totem pole for me of some kind...
and ...."let the sun come in".
