We may not be boating, but we're still getting our kicks at home. Read on. Depending on what device you're viewing this on, you may or may not get a very short video. The video shows on our tablets but not on our phones (no idea why) I'll put a photo as well just in case.
I mentioned during the summer how much pleasure we got from the history and the wildlife in the churchyard behind our house. Well yesterday we got a another thrilling show from over there from some daring tree surgeons - or perhaps they were stunt men. They might as well have been.
All along the hedge behind our row of houses are a number of huge lime trees. At a guess, they are seventy or eighty feet tall. If our one should fall over on our house, that would be the end of our top storey.
Yesterday afternoon we heard a lot of kerfuffle outside and on looking out of the bedroom window and saw a man high up in 'our' (actually it belongs to the church) tree. Naturally he was roped up and had a harness and karabiners and all that, but you wouldn't have got me up there. At one point he was about 40 feet up and holding a saw on a telescopic pole as long as one of those fishing poles that men have to raise like tower bridge when we pass underneath aboard Herbie. It must be hard sawing with a thing like that, but branches from some sixty or more feet up were raining down. Sadly the man at that point was hidden in a tangle of branches near the trunk and I couldn't get a clear photo. Then, lower down but still much higher than I would have a head for, he emerged along a branch with a hand saw. Here's the little video for those that can see it, plus a photo for anyone that can't. Would you do this?: (Click the full screen thingy in the bottom corner of the video to see it big)
I'm hoping they'll be back today to do next door's tree. Oddly, that one will afford us a clearer view.
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We once ate our lunch moored at King's Norton junction, watching something similar being done to the tall trees at the guillotine lock. Impressive!
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