Since the back room couldn't be quarantined from the rest of the house or termite proofed, it has to be torn down. Before we could have the back room demolished and rebuild, a few trees had to come out.
Before the trees came out we cut some of them down to size so that it didn't cost so much. Mark cut out many dead ones as well.
The 3 cocos palms [2 out back in photo above and one out front] were too big for us to fell and we didn't think we could control dropping things so close to the house.
A hand saw took too long for the thick trunks so we left them for the arborist [note two large trunks in the photo above]. But Mark did drop some huge trees.
On 16 January, with spiked boots and a sling harness, the arborist climbed the palms with two chainsaws hanging from his belt and dropped it piece by piece from above him.
This weed tree above, a privet had been cut before but kept growing back hence all the trunks on the fence line.
Mark cut it to just over head height but the tree feller used a short cut, a chainsaw. He then poisoned it so hopefully so it won't grow back. We will have to rebuild the fence here.
Another job was preparing for a new fence so all the old fencing and over grown vegetation had to be taken out. Some places we couldn't see the fence for the English Ivy [which Mark reacts to like poison ivy] and other creapers. Believe it or not the photos above were taken after Mark took much of it out.
Some of the fencing was horizontal since termites had eaten the uprights. 
Neatly stacking the trunks, palm fronds and huge seed pods, they filled the truck to over flowing.We also asked for estimates to clear the stacks of plant bits out front that Mark has cleared out of our 'jungle' since we moved in.
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