good morning sirs
we have had several issues latelly on the Panzodrom grounds with intruders, people who do not understand the the meaning of private property, and not only that, but they are dedicated to vandalizing
the owner has a large area of land, and in some limits this is not fenced, or it was so old that with the years the fence has colapsed and vanished, there are people who simply goes through the property, for a walk, walking their dogs or riding horses, which normally we do not care, unless they get into 'our' Panzodrom sector, there have already been cases where recently planted trees have been stolen from us. The dangerous ones are those who come with bad intentions, to see what they could steal, or by simple vandalism.
This week the neighbor has warned us several times that someone has dedicated himself to burning old tires next to the old farmhouse, right where there is a huge 20m cypress tree that died many years ago. This tree leans towards the farmhouse, and is so dry that the fire from the tires ignited it quickly. The Panzodrom is located in an area where the winds are very strong. If the tree burns or falls, it would do so on the farmhouse, and the Panzodrom project would end at that time. You can imagine our concern and anguish.
We have obtained permission from the owner of the land to fence the Panzodrom and the farmhouse, if everything goes well it will be fenced at the end of the month
but before executing the "Unternehmen Zaun", the dead tree had to be removed
So this weekend we have rented a truck with a lifting basket and we have 'disassembled' the tree with great care.
First we dedicated ourselves to cutting the branches into small stumps, becasuse the electric cable that feeds the Panzodrom passes just below ... so you could not simply cut the branch and let it fall to the ground
the main tree trunk already stripped of branches
After peeling the trunk, we cut small sections and with ropes we made them fall towards the opposite side of the house
Until we reached the final section, about 6m high, here the trunk was so thick that our mechanical saws could not cut it, so we had to make it fall in one piece
and luckily we have cut the tree, you can see that it was very rotten, any day one of the gales would have made it fall.
Taking advantage of the fact that we had the lifting basket all weekend, we cut another tree, a walnut, that was very sick and half rotten inside, which bothered the growth of the Panzodrom plants
after these works were finished, this is the view from the basket (the other tree is a linden, and it has been well trimed, but the pic was taken before)
we are completely exhausted and sore, but very satisfied and eager to mount the fence
best regards!