We had this tree… well, up until recently it had been 3 trees, a triple crown but when two of them came down in the field the third one was leaning more and more perilously over our backyard and our swimming pool.
It had to come down. But because it leaned over the pool and close enough to the house to do some damage I knew it would require special equipment and techniques to prevent the trunk from launching a truck or tractor into the house like a trebuchet. It was above my pay-grade. We had to call in experts. And we knew just who to call, Todd and his wife Kim Richards.
Fortunately, they were right in Pine Plains and I actually contacted them through our high tech communications system — running into them at Stewart’s. They showed up the next morning.
Todd had quite a different approach. Take it down from the top! As you will see, this was a tall order.
When I told friends about the video and asked if they knew Todd and Kim there was usually pause and a thoughtful frown until they came up with “Oh, the Tree Couple!” And so that is how I named this sequence.