A great adventure

We had been deliberating the fate of our old apple tree all summer, we were so tired of the apples falling on the ground, thousands of them, they start the first of June and will cover our entire yard until the end of October. It would be one thing if the apples would mature enough to use but they don't. This year we actually got some that were good enough and it appeard as though the tree would survive another year. On the weekend though we discovered the trunk had split and we were left with no choice but to bring it down.



Here is the tree on day 1 and you can see the pile of apples, this is after just raking apples 2 days earlier.

Here we are starting to take limbs out of the tree.


Getting towards the end of the day we are making some progress.

Here we are the end of the second day, the yard is almost back to normal, now we are beginning to shovel around the roots to see if we can get the trunk out.