For the eighth year in a row, a chainsaw has roared on Hardwood Hermitage. Preliminary work today took crowns off of two fallen red maples. The biggest work was to drop a diagonal red maple with the smaller saw. The first picture shows two trunks, with the center trunk dropped with the bow saw a few weeks ago. The bow sawing started over the winter, but the job was really difficult. The bigger trunk in the upper right is the diagonal taken down with the chainsaw today.
Several pieces of the crown from both trees will end up as firewood, to say nothing of many pieces from the two large trunks.
Another red maple, on the south hill like the two trees above, broke during the winter. The winds were fierce that day, as the top of the tree (in foreground) ended up about 20 feet from the main trunk (partially visible in upper middle of picture). The main trunk, shown in the second pic below, was taken down with the saw today.
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