October 2016

Demolition...

The first step was to take down the Linden tree on the west side of the house (which was in the new house), the birch on the north side of the house (which was old and diseased and starting to fall on its own) and the birch on the northwest side of the house (which was fairly old and would have lost at least 25% of its root ball).

Splitting the birch round by hand is exhausting