This is the lift I have been driving around the last few days. Today was the last day. That thing is a tank in any country but a real challenge to drive on skinny roads in Germany. I will not miss the lift, but I will miss the heated cab. The building on the right were a hospital in the 2nd World War.

This is a leaning oak I removed last Friday (day after Thanksgiving). I knocked one lead out to avoid hitting the hydrant in the foreground. The rest I felled in one piece to avoid having to work above the parked car.

Here is the leaner from a different angle. Hanging over the car but I was sure I could fit it around the car.

Sometimes one piece is so much faster. The oak fit nicely around the car. It is Friday, time to go home!

The next 6 pics are a few weeks old. We used a 180ft lift to reduce this monster poplar. It was in the east cemetery (Ostfriedhof). Not fun work at all.

Here is the after shot of the poplar. Would you like extra topping with that? Topping is bad. The city used the alibi that next year the tree will be properly removed with a crane.

This is the monster lift we used. 180ft max height!!! We used such a large lift for a long reach. A crane would have been a better choice but as the Germans say, "leave the thinking to the horses, they have bigger heads."

This pic is in the same cemetery. Mom - the bright red thing is a Japanese maple. The lion in the background is a memorial to the war dead from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The last war Germany won.

Big tree with no drop zone.

One last picture of what fall looked like because winter is here!

I have quite a collection of fungus pictures going now. These caught my eye on a poplar and I decided to fell the tree. The tree turned out to be quite hollow. The tree was over a sidewalk, cycle path, and 4 lanes of traffic. Hazard tree!

The ground crew is cutting up the 1st tree we felled. The 2nd one is down to a stick at this point which will be pulled with the rope. Lots of traffic!

Here you can see how hollow the tree actually was. Poplars and people don't mix.