Yard Tree

Yard trees are trees that no self respecting sawmill will tackle to make lumber. Growing in the yard means they may have nails, clothesline pulleys, fencing, etc. embedded in them. Sawmill operators don't like that because such things can take out individual saw teeth, or sometimes the whole blade! This one was huge. Located in an old city neighborhood near our studio, it reached probably 100 feet or more. Somebody will haul away these huge trimmings, hopefully to a place where they can rot and go back to mother earth to nourish more trees!