Jim continued working on the top of the workbench this morning. He plugged the screw holes on the sides and sanded the rest of the top.
Using the air compressor hose to blow all the sanding dust off...
Then he started rolling on the first coat of polyurethane...
Looks beautiful!
In the afternoon, we headed back out to work on the driveway - we basically finished everything up that we wanted so we're thrilled that that job is done. It looks so nice now to drive in and not see any gravel in the yard - I'm sure the grass will be much healthier now too!
After we caught our breath from that job, time to cut down the other tree that we wanted down. You can see how it's leaning towards the carriage house.
Jim did some prep work first - since he was able to save the small pine trees when he cut the other tree down, he didn't want to knock them down with this tree if he could help it. So he used a big log to kind of act as a bumper if the tree were to fall on them.
Next, he had to maneuver his machines behind this tree. You can see that the path was filled with small pine trees, including some fuzzy pines that we like. Jim did his best to avoid those.
Both machines are now in place bracing the trunk so that it can't fall backwards...
Then he starts to cut...
Down!
Check out how close to those little pine trees Jim dropped it!
A close up of the hinge on the trunk...
Starting to cut off all the branches...
Continuing to cut through a mass of branches...
All the branches are off and I stacked them in our ever-growing pile to be chipped. Then Jim started cutting up the trunk...
A view from the cut side...
And from the top.
So glad that both of those trees are down safely - big relief!
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