Lakeview Rural Reservation

During the winter, several of the Scotch pines on Lot 12 succumbed to the cold, requiring the services of Dale Young and sons, Town and Country Tree Service from Columbia Station. I didn't search for bids because they had done work for me in the past, taken down damaged/dying/dead trees that had over 2 foot in diameter trunks and were 70 to 100 foot tall. I knew they would come out with the right crew, the right equipment to do exactly what I needed to have done and do it safely. I wasn't disappointed.

While here, they also took down a 90+ foot tall maple (see video) that had died near the top of West River Road hill and which might blow over onto the road and cable lines. For this they used their bucket truck to reach a neighboring black walnut tree, looped a strong rope over its upper branches, then tied off each maple branch to the rope as it was being cut off and lowered it safely to the ground, avoiding the cable lines and also not dropping the cut branch into the ravine. Since I didn't want the lumber, they fed the 15-inch diameter and smaller branches into the yellow chipper, while they cut up the 2-foot trunks remaining into sections and hauled them away in their trucks.

In addition, at my home, there were 2 large ash trees, one dead, one nearly dead; both had trunks greater than 2 foot in diameter and both were over 100-foot tall. One was located on a hillside near the house and also near a Lot 9 property line while the other was about 30 foot from the house. For these Town and Country used their crane truck to hold the branches while being cut, the bucket truck to attach the straps from the crane truck to the sections before cutting them, then lower the bucket to cut the sections. Then they used the Bobcat to grab the cut sections and either load them into the chipper or if too large a diameter to chip, into their trucks. Again, safety was their guideline. Though I took pictures and video I stayed well out of their way and out of the potential path of the trees being worked on.

This is the ash tree on the slope near the Lot 9 property line and the house

This is the ash tree near the house

In all, Town and Country took down over 32 trees, all as large as these, all in dangerous or awkward spots on the edge of a ravine of Lot 12, in the woods alongside the lake shared by Lot 13, in addition to removing 3 maples from the building site on Lot 13. Also, Town and Country took down 3 large, dead ash, near the Lot 10 home and on slopes in the yard. Each was done safely and well, as I knew it would be.

Lot 6

Lot 11

Lot 12

Lot 13