How Do You Eat An Elephant?
Jun 12th, 2007 by Don Ray
Maybe you have heard to old joke, “How do you eat an elephant?’ The answer was “One bite at a time”. That was the thought that popped into my mind when I realized that they were removing the huge mango tree from across the street. This tree is enormous and you just can’t cut it at the bottom and let it fall.
By the time I realized that this entertainment was going on across the street, a large portion of the upper part of the tree has already been cut. When you look at the first photo, you need to mentally fill in all the white space that is in the center with tree. That much of the tree was removed before I started taking photos.
Here is another photo.
If we look a little closer, we can see that the fellow is securing himself to the tree.
In this pjoto you can see that a lot more of the tree has been removed.
Here is a closeup of the fellow and you can see that this part of the work is being done with a machete.
Here you can see that another person has been recruited.
Here is another photo.
If we look closer in this one, we can see that the branch has gotten thicker and the fellow has moved to a chainsaw.
The next photo.
Its closeup.
Well, as you can see, it doesn’t take much to entertain me. They stopped the project a little after my last photo and have not returned. I assume the plan is to remove the entire tree. Who knows this could be a long project. Rome wasn’t built in a day and mango trees aren’t removed in a day either it appears.
Dear Don Ray, I must be ready for retirement because I could sit and watch this kind of activity all day!! haha I did notice that the one fellow at least tied himself off before starting chopping.
A friend of mine here in Fort Worth paid $1500 and $2000 to have two trees removed and the crew dropped large branches across power lines both times!? Maybe your guys could come by the next time, even with airfare it would still be cheaper and safer?
jimandnena
Hi J&N - It might be cheaper. You would have to buy the machetes and rent a chainsaw. You would alos have to figure out how to get them their US visas (Not an easy task these days).
For some of the branches I did notice that they were secured to the tree. For others not. I had fun, but then I can have fun watching paint dry if someone else did the painting.