Roof of cabin looking down from about 60 ft.
Dinning room in forefront, Kitchen to left, Bedroom to right.
 

Looking North to the mouth of Laughing Brook ... from about 75 ft up.
Pink (haul) rope was used to pull tree top away from cabin.
 

Looking West & strait down to the beach & table ... Franklin & Angela looking up.
 

View from 70 feet up of south side of Laughing Brook cove beach.
 

Angela moving the canoe away from tree trajectory ... note the clear water.
 

Looking down about 40ft to Chris belaying from the base of the tree.
Ron's foot, swede saw, & ropes in foreground.
 

Pink haul rope attached at about 75ft ... Ron with safety on preparing to start cutting.
Photo by Jackie
 

Cut complete, tension on the pink rope & top 15ft of tree falling. Ron safely lower & out of the way.
Photo by Franklin
 

Cut completed. The top section has been removed.
Photo by Franklin
 

The top 15ft landed almost exactly where we wanted it to.
 

The second 15ft section took much longer, but it also fell exactly where we planned.
Chris is here coiling up the haul rope.
 

This picture shows why the second cut took so long.
The tree is 17 inches in diameter, with only 2 - 2.5 inches holding it from falling ...
tedious work with a swede saw getting jammed up with pine pitch.
 

Picture shows how much bark was off the tree and why we were concerned
that the tree, or several branches, might come down in a storm.
Thus the reason for topping the tree.
 

Photos by Ron Skene, unless otherwise noted.
Notes are by Ron.