Thursday 6 August 2015

Les Peupliers - All Fifty Six of them!

For some time now we have been discussing what to do about the poplar trees which surround the garden on three sides.

There are always going to be pros and cons but in this case the pros won. The trees were simply too high to be safe and something needed doing. We had asked around locally and found no one prepared to undertake the job. Then, by chance, when we went to Lencloitre for the monthly market, we saw just the team.

They started work this morning and haven't stopped all day - that's 9 hours in temperatures in the 30s.

The first tree

Once they established what needed doing, work progressed well...

I cycled round to the road by the woods to get some "distance" shots..

And then again, just a few minutes ago...

This short video shows the men at work earlier...

We look forward to it being completed!

5 comments:

GaynorB said...

WOW! What a difference a day makes.

Tim said...

Wonderful work...
you'd think they'd done it with a hedge trimmer and a ruler!
In fact...
check with the Guinness book of Records....
to see if there is a World's Tallest Hedge.
Yours might qualify!
But it is much more in scale with the house...
nice!

And what are you going to do with all that wood...?

Craig said...

Looks like they did a great job. I suspect that you will feel more secure if you get a windy day now.

norma said...

Who was driving the drone?

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Norma I am a big fan of drones and have several tiny ones and one big one... Col