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Subject: [Leica] Tree Falling
From: jon.streeter at cox.net (Jon Streeter)
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 21:03:16 -0800
References: <mailman.161.1355067349.1187.lug@leica-users.org> <07401114-74DF-4AD3-AA5F-263998916661@netvigator.com>

With all due respect to the trees, the view is much better now.

-----Original Message----- 
From: H&E Cummer
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 10:40 AM
To: lug at leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Tree Falling

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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