"Felling Timbers" in the Adirondacks

Here is an image of two Adirondack loggers with their saw and axe.  It seems that we have had more than our usual share of dead and diseased trees lately.  We lose several every year to storms, wind, ice and disease, but lately it has been more than that.  I think we had at least ten trees removed this past summer and there were a dozen more that were flagged as potentially dangerous in the event of high winds or storms.