Tree Problems removed

Today at 0900 Levitz showed up to tackle the trees that needed to be cut down.  One hickory was leaning at a pretty good angle towards the house and the other large oak had the top twisted out of it last summer in a storm.  The hickory was about 1′ in diameter and 80′ tall and the oak was a 40′ trunk about 2′ in diameter.  In one hour they were finished and by agreement left the brush for us to clean up and this took me about an hour with my chainsaw.

What remains is splitting the wood for burning this winter.  The hickory was dead for a few years so it is dry and the oak smells like it is full of sap so it may not be ready this year.

We have lots more to split from the three ash trees that died over the past 3 years.  I just stacked it but never spit the wood as I did not have the energy to split it by hand and I do not have a splitter.  The neighbor said I could borrow his so I will start splitting this fall when the leaves are down and done.

The trees on my property are valuable assets because they are shade trees and have allowed us to forego airconditioning except on the hottest of days and even when we do it only takes an effective one ton unit to cool our relatively large house.