The beginning of the end

Here's how the lumberjack and the landscape guys got under way on Monday. The first step was to cut the branches off the trunk of the tree. That stopped at about two thirds of the way up. While the guy in the tree cut the branches, the crew on the ground took them to a mulcher (parked in the driveway) to grind them up.

The lumberjack (red helmet) in the tree cuts branches while one of the ground crew moves them to the mulcher.

While the ground crew worked, the lumberjack hung out in the tree until all was clear below for the next round of cutting. And so it went on through the morning.

Little by little, the trunk is stripped of its branches.

I only took a handful of photos, and no videos. I haven't really learned how to take videos with the camera, let alone the phone, so I have none. More photos tomorrow.