Timber!

We're having four good-sized trees taken down in the back yard.  Two are enormous loblolly pines and two are good-sized poplars (or cottonwood).   These are nuisance trees with shallow roots that are just waiting for a tropical storm to tip them over and onto the house.  They should have been removed when the house was built 12 or so years ago and by now we'd have some credible hardwoods in the back yard.  Our plan is to get those new trees going for the next homeowners.

 Larsen inspects the smaller of the two poplars.