Tree Work at La Basse Cour

After the successful meeting with M. Le Maire we had the tree on the Talus taken down. Stuart and Sebastian, the anglo-french team of www.lejardinieranglais.com came and worked all day to cut down the ash tree together with a small oak, another ash leaning over the potager and the fir tree outside the main barn door. Oh and they cut and trimmed three other trees as well, ground out the fir tree stump and let us put all the brash through their turbo-diesel chipper to produce a huge pile of wood chippings for use on the garden.

First Sebastian climbed the tree to remove the top growth

It's a big tree !!!!

 

On its way down

Perfectly dropped between the Nectarine, the Plum and the Cherry .....

 The trunk dug itself about 50cm into the soft ground when it landed, any fanciful ideas we had about sawing the trunk into planks disappeared with the discovery of a split up the trunk.

One of the groundworkers inspects the tree

  

Steve loading the chipper

Jess inspecting  our work

Sebastian cutting dead wood out of the Oak

 On inspection the Ash was found to be about 85 years old, the oak will be older - probably at least a hundred years old. For the first time in some while it will have the chance to grow naturally without strong competition.