Pine Tree Removal

We recently took out a pine tree, another bug-killed knobcone pine. It had been dead since spring and was leaning over the trailer pretty far.

As the fall rain and wind commenced, the tree started leaning more and more. It was getting to where I was losing sleep worrying about the thing falling, so finally decided to take it out.

The felling job was a bit of a surgical procedure. Because it was leaning over the trailer, we couldn't just cut it down the way it stood. So we used a come along and winched the tree away from the trailer as it was being cut and while falling over, and also wedged the cut to get the tree to not fall on any of our stuff.

It fell perfectly alongside the trailer and missed the solar equipment, the new pier foundation, and our generator that were in the vicinity.

The bad part: the old dead pine fell onto an oak I had marked as a KEEP tree. The tree will live probably, but the pine split it kind of in half and knocked some branches out. Perhaps when next spring comes that opened canopy will encourage new growth?