{"id":912,"date":"2008-09-20T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T06:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/20\/cut-it-down-cut-it-down\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T22:06:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T06:06:32","slug":"cut-it-down-cut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/20\/cut-it-down-cut-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"cut it down! cut it down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> One of the items on my agenda this week was the removal of a large tree in the front of our church property. A Douglas Fir, it was about 160-180 yrs old. A big one, but not what they call &#8220;old growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I will attempt to post video at some point, but here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>One funny thing happened about noon, when our neighbouring elementary school let out for lunch. The kids saw what was going on and rushed out to have a closer look. As the fallers were taking the tree down section by section, they started a chant of &#8220;Cut it down! Cut it down!&#8221; They let out a big cheer when a huge section &#8216;bit the dust&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Some pics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gbcvic.org\/images\/Events\/080918Tree_Removal\/The_Victim.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">The Victim<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"200\" alt=\"the_victim01\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-victim01.jpg\" width=\"260\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"200\" alt=\"the_victim02\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-victim02.jpg\" width=\"260\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"200\" alt=\"the_victim03\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-victim03.jpg\" width=\"260\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"200\" alt=\"the_victim04\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-victim04.jpg\" width=\"260\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p> The last cut in progress:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"198\" alt=\"The Final Cut in progress\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/finalcut2a.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>All on the ground&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"198\" alt=\"Timber2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/timber2.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>More work to come&#8230; hooking our church building up to the sewer is next on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/don-sig214.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the items on my agenda this week was the removal of a large tree in the front of our church property. A Douglas Fir, it was about 160-180 yrs old. A big one, but not what they call &#8220;old growth&#8221;. I will attempt to post video at some point, but here are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36,74],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-eI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}