Big One One: The Tree's Gone!

I mentioned this huge, ugly tree that we had in the front of the house. It was ugly, the pine needles killed the grass, and it didn't let any light in. So, it's gone.

This is how the house looked with the pine (ugly):





View from inside the house (dark):



View from the back:



A friend of a friend of a friend came and chopped off the tree for really cheap. It took him three days, but he used most of that time cleaning up the branches. I wanted to film it, but I thought that the guy would have felt really uncomfortable, so I just took some pictures now and then. The process was very interesting. We noted that at some point or another, all of our neighbors came to see it, and also that the people that drove by had their heads in funny angles trying to see the guy in top of the tree.

The guy first cut the branches, from the bottom up.



Then, he started cutting the trunk, chunk by chunk.



End of the first day:





Final thing:



View from inside (with tree and blinds gone!)



The front of our house now:



Leftover wood (cheap!!!)