Gather 'round and I will tell you how the story ends.
Thank you. When we left off, the trunk was in the cat pen.
This is what the damage looked like.
You can see how rotted out it was.
And yet, it was supporting all these branches and they were very long (tall) and heavy. When the wind blew it was too much weight for a rotting trunk. All these branches were growing from the rotten trunk.
He arrived with a bobcat to remove it from the pen. He chained it up to lift and drag it out. He said he was going to take it away but decided he couldn't so he left it here, by the pile of chips he left last time.
This is what it looks like in our driveway. This is what the cat pen looked like when he left. You can't tell but there were still a lot of branches and logs under the big trunk he just moved. The girls cleaned it all out and took down all the wire.