The Arbor Vision Tree Service came by yesterday and removed that HUGE Birch tree that was next to our garage where it covered the sunshine that needed to shine on our garage roof solar panels. Without sunshine on those solar panels our electrical cost wouldn't have been as low as it should have been, so we talked to John Marshall at Arbor Vision (they had removed SO many trees all over our property over the last half dozen years) and he agreed to come over this weekend and cut that Birch down for us. And that got done! Great!
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| See that giant Birch tree there just to the left of the garage -- it was SUPER tall. It had to go! Those guys spent a couple hours cutting down all the branches and hauling them all away. Then once those branches were cut off, those guys cut down the whole tree itself. |
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| And now that the tree is down, those shadows there on the solar panels aren't happening anymore! Great! (And actually most of those branches were gone when I took this picture so there was just a little shadow still happening. Earlier, though, the shadows covered at least half of those solar panels. That was NOT good!) |
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| At this point it was obvious that once that Birch tree would be gone we'd even be able to see the pasture there in back. You couldn't before -- that Birch tree was SO enormous there was no way to see anything behind it. Nice to have it gone now for several reasons. |
Well, as you can see now, there's no longer a tree really close to garage. Great!
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| And thankfully those solar panels are completely free to sunshine ALL the time! The electric bills will be way less now. Great! |
Well, while those guys were cutting down that tree, Mark and Jerry were out in back putting up big new posts at the corners of the pasture back there so we can put up new fencing. And they put up a brand new electric fence charger so that the electric fence wire would go back to work so we could let the horses back out into the pasture sometime soon until the new fence gets put up next week. Then NEXT weekend Mark and Jerry and another guy Jerry's bringing with him will install an entire new steel horse fence. And they ARE going to put that electric fence wire on that new wire fencing as well - to keep the horses from pushing against that metal fence (Duke particularly!), but if that electric wire ever goes out, those horses still won't be able to just jump across the fence and go running out into that road behind us! And cats and dogs from the neighbors won't be able to come over into our pasture anymore with that new fence put up, now that we'll have a high metal horse fence from the ground up. Well, I'm sure looking forward to that new fence. It's gonna be lots less scary about those horses getting out, that's for sure!
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