Bob Bolling 's Website in Galicia, Northwest Spain

They've clear-cut the eucalyptus and pine trees on six acres of the woods next to us. Our property line is a couple of feet outside our fence and any trees between the fence and the line are ours. They include oak, chestnut, laurel and pine. Pines in this area are becoming infested with tree-killing insects and ours didn't look very healthy, so we sold them to the woodcutters with the condition that the other trees belonging to us weren't damaged.

One of our pines was a few inches inside the fence. We told the woodcutters they could let it fall into the yard if they didn't damage the fence and if they cleaned up the debris afterwards. Instead, they found a way to take it over the fence without making a mess on our side.

Cutting It Close October 2004
They've clear-cut the eucalyptus and pine trees on six acres of the woods next to us. Our property line is a couple of feet outside our fence and any trees between the fence and the line are ours. They include oak, chestnut, laurel and pine. Pines in this area are becoming infested with tree-killing insects and ours didn't look very healthy, so we sold them to the woodcutters with the condition that the other trees belonging to us weren't damaged. One of our pines was a few inches inside the fence. We told the woodcutters they could let it fall into the yard if they didn't damage the fence and if they cleaned up the debris afterwards. Instead, they found a way to take it over the fence without making a mess on our side.
Marivi (white pants) cautions the machine operator about damaging the chestnut and oak saplings	One guy attaches a steel cable high up the trunk to make sure the top part of the tree falls outward	The versatile log stripper/cutter was used to cut the trunk a few feet above the fence.
One of the machines they use is pretty impressive. Ordinarily, it's used to strip the bark and small limbs off a full-length tree trunk, then cut the trunk into 8-foot lengths for transport. It'll handle a huge tree in less than a minute. But in the case shown above, they used it to saw down the top part of a standing tree. (They cut the bottom part with a normal chainsaw and then the machine lifted it over the fence.)