Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Luggers, Many of you have seen the views from my Loft balcony overlooking the straits that lead to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island and a few of you have teased me about the trees that blocked the view. Well I take these criticisms very seriously! :-) And so, after two years of negotiations and some pretty adroit negotiations (if I do say so myself) I finally obtained the permission of the downhill neighbour to cut down some of his trees to restore my view. Yesterday "Bear" Robertson, the best tree faller on the Island, came by and in about six hours he and his crew restored the view. He and another young fellow, Bradley, were the climbers and cutters. Bradley is from an old island family and started learning to cut trees with Bear when Bradley was 14 - he's now about 20. Two fellows on the ground moved the cut limbs and sawed the fallen trunks into rounds. The tradition is the wood goes to the owner of the property the trees were on, but the owner has to buck the rounds into fire wood. My neighbour is going to be at it for years!! Bear's tree cutting service is so much in demand, because he is so good, that the only way to reach him is by text messaging which also complicated making the final arrangements. I have opened a new folder with the pictures of the whole exercise. They can be found here: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/trees/ and here is one teaser photo: Bear looking at the view from the top of an already topped tree. It is not a job for you if you have vertigo!! And you really need big muscles to fling around the chain saws that you haul up and down the trees. It is a dangerous job not for the faint of heart. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/trees/Viewlkw.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/axwdjxj Please enjoy and look large. The pictures were taken with the M9, the D800E and the Fuji X Pro 1 with the 90 Elmarit on it. The cutting and falling goes so fast there is little time to change lenses so the need for so many cameras. Now I am waiting for the sunshine so I can enjoy the view. Cheers Howard (on rainy Pender - but it was still and clear yesterday when the trees were coming down!)