[Leica] Tree Falling

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

My goodness those guys were high up!  I don't usually approve of cutting
trees but that certainly did improve your view.  Wonderful photos.

Tina

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> 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!)
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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