The Ax Man Cometh

Work progresses on the East Wall. We have the trench well defined and the area is staked out with a string indicating the zenith of the wall in a relatively level sort of fashion.

Even with all our intensive root removal work of the previous nights, we still ran into a couple of substantial roots. One got my neighbor Derek involved with his battery powered Sawzall. We kept cutting and then prying, only to discover another sizable tendril heading off in a different direction. At one point, we had half the neighborhood standing around and offering advice...none of it helpful.

So we managed to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish for the night and spent the rest of the evening sitting on the front porch enjoying where we live.

Here are the roots (Horizontal Tree Trunks) we removed tonight.