At the end of our last post we were left with a 20-foot stump gracing our front yard. Today the crew came back for Part 2.
Early in the morning came all the big machinery again; this time a big flatbed with a bin as well as the crane and cherry-picker pictured here.
First cut.
Top piece off and heading for the bin. The chunk surprisingly didn’t seem to have a lot of rot. The workmen were musing that the tree seemed pretty healthy and maybe the city worker had jumped the gun a bit, which made us start to feel a bit guilty for killing a relatively healthy tree.
Guilty feelings stopped once we saw the lowest third of the stump…
…especially when we saw the bottom end. We figure that’s about 40% of the inside rotten or completely gone. Score one for the city worker!
This is what we’re left with. At some point we’re supposed to get one more crew in to grind down the stump to lawn level, but we don’t know when that will be. And then next year we’re supposed to get another tree in our front yard (to be planted to the right of the stump). Wonder how that’s supposed to work—the rootball of this tree must be enormous!