Yesterday I got a message from Mark wondering if they could fall the tree early today. I said sure and we agreed on eight this morning. In this picture Roberto is about half way up the dead tree.
He climbed up and put a line around all three so they could pull them in the right direction.
Mark was up the other tree cutting off the dead limbs that hung over the driveway.
This is how the line was rigged.
In this shot Roberto has made the undercut and is falling the tree.
It went down quicker than I expected, I was going to do a five shot burst but I didn't get the camera set in time so I only got this one picture.
When the tree hit the ground a lot of the dead limbs broke off.
This is how the skyline looks now.
While the tree falling was going on Steve went down to rent a stump grinder. He and Parker are building a wood shed on Parker's property and there was a stump right where they wanted one corner to be.
That grinder doesn't look big enough to do much but it was grinding right through the stump and it is easy to operate.
They were done with the tree by 10:00 so we headed up to the flying field. Doug had bought this ultralight at a swap meet a couple of weeks ago. Leonard has a full sized one like it and was all excited by it. Steve donated a speed control to the project and it was all ready for a test flight today. Doug had Leonard check it out, test fly and trim it out. After the flight Doug gave it to Leonard.
We had a nice afternoon sitting in the shade visiting. I did some more trimming on the Pitts and after an adjustment to the aileron differential it is really flying good. When the temperature got into the eighties we packed up and headed home to the air conditioning. I ended up mowing the lawn this evening when it had cooled off a little.
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