When we first bought this house there were 4 big cottonwoods on the south side of the house. This one was definitely the biggest. Since we got the house in the spring we didn't realize that 3 of them were dead. We had those 3 removed last year but had planned on keeping this one. It was good shade, and a pretty tree. However, we hated it because cottonwoods are aweful trees that are constantly dropping something; cotton, little green sticky things, leaves, sticks/branches. There were sticks and branches falling off this thing all the time. So we definitely had a love/hate relationship with the tree(more hate on Paul's part because he was always cleaning up after it). This year, this tree decided to die also. It lost all of its leaves in June. Since it really draped over the house we wanted to make sure to get it down soon. We did that this week.
The company we went with this time was much more professional than the ones that took out the other trees. They came with all sorts of equipment
Almost down
Colin enjoyed the tractors in the back yard
Some videos of the process
I guess I need to go take a picture of the backyard now. Paul left before they were totally finished and it was dark when we got home. It obviously looks a lot different. We will be planting another tree, or trees, in the area this came down from.
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