Rooftop Lumberjack

I went outside of the house for an entire week to work on this little problem.

 

This tree was covering half of the house, which was great for keeping the house a bit cooler, but unfortunately, it was beginning to damage the roof, and was also literally leaning on the house...not cool. It had to go.

 

This is a photo of a chimney coming up from the middle of the house...I'm posting it for reference, so you can see just how much of the house this tree was taking over.

 

Working on it.

 

It took me about three days, a bow saw, a pair of shears, and a machete (lots of vines) to get this far. The drill and hammer are there because I had to install some braces on the tree in order reach a few branches that were higher up and farther out.

 

By this point, I was able to finally see the chimney coming from our living room fireplace...it didn't look very tidy.

 

Here's where I was by the end of the week (notice the small chimney, our reference point from earlier). The living room chimney is a bit tidier, but I'm sure the flue is full of every kind of growth you can imagine.

 

The cool part about working on the roof is that when it's quitting time, you get an amazing view of Downtown San Antonio!

This is when I know it's time for a beer.

 

 

My dad came back...and he brought a chainsaw! *phew* (All of the work prior was done by hand...)

 

My mom came too, but she only brought supervisory skills.

 

Don't forget about clean up! My dad didn't stick aorund for that... Luckily brush pickup was the same week, so all I had to do was chop up an entire tree and drag it all to the curb. x_x

 

Time to make like a tree!