There's a man in this tree. Can you find him? He's Ray MacDermott. Ray is a good friend of mine. He worked for decades as a tree trimmer for lots of different companies. He is currently working on his own. He came to prune my apple trees the other day. This isn't an apple tree. It's one of the trees near an apple tree. It was shading one of my apple trees so that it wasn't spreading right, so Ray took it upon himself to climb up there and remove the offending limbs. He didn't have to do that. That's just the kind of guy he is.
We just have two apple trees. The one you see in the next picture is one that was planted eons ago. Grampa Tom says he thinks he was just a little, little kid when it was planted. At one point, a big wind storm blew it over and they thought it was dead, but it grew back. When we moved here in '88 it was producing red apples. We wanted a granny smith apple tree for apple sauce, so we planted the tree behind it that year. It had the wrong tag on it. It turned out to be a red apple tree. My son has a granny smith at our place out side of Dallas City so we're good now.
We are terrible people. We have never pruned our trees. It's about time.
The next picture is of the final product. Don't they look great?
Ray left the branches because he gives a discount if you clean up the mess yourself. Grampa Tom is talking about getting a chipper and selling apple wood chips for smoking at the markets this summer.
If you'd like to hire Ray he does tree trimming, topping, pruning or removal. Call 217-430-7542 or message his wife Becky for a free estimate. 35+ years experience...lots of satisfied customers! He lives in Carthage, IL but he's been known to travel long distances for work so give him a call!
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
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