We have/had a HUGE Chinese Elm tree that was getting WAY out of control and had developed many dead areas and areas of weeping and dripping.

Although, we have had it topped at least twice, and Terry’s Grandfather had it topped at least once that we know of, the tree had reached its end.

After talking to several tree services the company we had to finally hire wanted $4,000.00 to cut and clean up the tree.

It took two days to cut it down. (We even had sunshine on one of those days)

In order to get a good look at the size of the trunk we had the girls stand by the downed tree trunk

An enormous tree!

Since we have lots of help we decided to save the $2,200.00 it would have taken to clean up the tree.  And save the wood for our own use.

We were stopped by the snow. But most of the branches and trunk were gone.

As soon as the snow melted enough the clean up crew arrived again

Until there were only two pieces of the trunk left

Terry hauled those off today

Now I have to figure out what to do with the stump and get use to having lots of hot, western sun. 

Oh, and I need to either re-plant my very damaged hedge or build a fence or…..

Linda