Fridley Farmer Turns Chopped Tree into Backyard Benches

Michael Moore blogs about his outdoor gardening adventures at FridleyFarmer.com. Here he recounts a recent adventure felling a tree with some friends.

Yesterday two of my friends came over and helped me cut down a tree from our front yard. We used to have two trees like the one on the right (you can see the stumps on the left), but the one we cut down had a couple of dead spots, and I needed room for my cherry tree.

Cutting the tree down went well overall. On the up side, our roof is intact, no one was hurt and the tree is gone. On the down side, the tree didn’t fall the way we were trying to make it fall so the roof being OK is partly luck. We were trying to make it fall towards where I took this picture from — about a 45 degree angle south, away from the house. Instead it decided it wanted to fall at a 45 degree angle north. Still away from the house, but not in the direction we had notched the trunk. My two friends were even pulling the tree with ropes and it still went the wrong way.  All’s well that ends well, I suppose.

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