Tree Trimming above the Rabbit Barn

 

 

 

Betty says,

In the early 80s, I had French Lop.   Albert built me a small 8-hole barn for the Lops and I thought I'd never fill up the 8 cages.    As we all know, such does not happen.  With one litter of French lop, all 8 cages were occupied.   In the late 80s, Albert built another barn for my English Angora then reconstructed it in 2006 see http://ncag.blogspot.com/2006/08/bettys-barn-reconstruction-done.html

The small barn has remained the same since the early 80s with the same 8 cages.   Surprisingly the barn and the cages all have been holding up very well.     Most of these cages are now occupied by the French Angora plus a few English Angora.
 

We have lots of cider trees, we planted them over 30 years ago when we first moved in.  The small barn is shaded by these huge trees.     One of the trees has a cracked branch right above the small barn, if the branch falls down, the small barn could be severely damaged.
 

A tree service is called in to cut the broken branch and do some cutting and trimmings on other big trees.
 

It takes skill and effort to secure the branch before cutting so that the branch would not fall on the barn.

 

The branch is successfully cut and pulled.

 

It's a big branch.
 

To get out of the gate, the branch needs to be cut into smaller pieces.
 

Even with some additional cutting, it takes two to pull the branch out of the gate.

 

 

The tree service has a huge wood chipper that grinds the big branches into chips and mulch.
 



Another view of the wood grinder and the truck that takes in the mulch material.