A quiet week at the resort without guests in some areas means Craig starts looking to the sky at dead trees.  They picked this tricky dead birch between out house and Kaubashine.  Odds on hitting the house 50 – 50

Discussing and tightening up the come a long

Notice Craig picking up his feet, tree is not far behind

Timber!

Neither Kaubashine or our house hit..  Now on to a trickier tree

Tying the knot at the top of the ladder in some more dead birch by Birchwood

Getting the land line set.  Will Jack’s landing get hit?

More debate and sharing of wisdom

I think the tree is rotten, Craig says, just before a dead branch just about takes out Steve at the base

Intense debate about the notch and cut

When the fingers start pointing you know they are a little nervous

No need to worry

Tree number 3, the trickiest of the day with lots of dead branches leaning over the road.  The plan to pull the tree over towards the sauna

Will the plan work?

With their new come a long system, I sort of miss the days of tieing the rope on the truck and flooring it to pull the trees over.