Oh indeedy we do hear it! Loud and with a slightly accelerated heart beat (for the men that are standing under it!). Some big ass trees met their maker today and although karma will surely bite my bottom, I was rejoicing for their demise. They are the trees of our not too futuristic bungalow!! Hoorah hooray skipidy doo and da...
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Was quite exciting to see it all going down. First we stood around for about half an hour while the dudes tried to sling shot a piece of thin rope attached to a weight into the first branch. Try after try it would hit too high or too low..it had to be in the perfect position. When it finally caught, they threaded a thicker rope through and a third time an
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even thicker rope. The purpose? To pull the tree in the right direction (as you can see J and FIL doing on the right). I've never seen anyone move so fast as the tree toppled right where they were standing a millisecond previous!
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Then the second tree came down just a winds started howling and the heavens threatened to open up again. This mama was a bit of a stickler however and needed a bit of assistance. The tightroper was literally doing this as the tree started falling. This is no 20
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year old..this dude is about 60! Limber fella.
It's all about taking little
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steps to get there!
2 commentaramas:
I am quite disappointed.....I was really rather hoping you were going to stick to your Arc plan!!
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Much more interesting than going to Bunnings to buy some wood
Becks
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