Today Steffan pulled a dead tree out of the ground using his Iltis and the winch at the front of the Iltis. The tree was a beech tree (I think) that had been dying for years now but when I looked at it and noticed it was crawling with little black bugs it seemed like a good time to pull it out by the roots and get rid of it.
Stef is now cutting it up with a chainsaw and I'm hoping we'll have a big bonfire to get rid of it and some other dead wood that's piled up over the years.
That tree was the tree we used to tie the dog's pulley system up to, so we'll have to tie him to the poplar tree from now on. I'd like to replace the tree with a maple tree like the one we have in behind the house. I think it's a red maple...or maybe a silver maple would be nice. Anyway the kind with nice smooth silver bark would look nice and kind of blend in with the house. Oh, and now we have a big hole in the front lawn! Stef's going to fill it in with some of the amazing soil we got from dredging the pond last fall, so that will work out nicely.
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