Sunday family working bee - Part 1

I have been solo prepping last week for tomorrow's working bee -  see my previous posts. This afternoon under shade I managed to lug the extension ladder through what we call the cottage garden and up against the tree that is being lopped tomorrow - yay

Finally after lopping smaller shrubs last week the extension ladder is in the right starting position.

The ladder is safely secured... top rung is hooked over a branch stump that I lopped many years ago when it was half the height.

All those high branches are on or over the fence line.

Branch grabber - I still have the long aluminium pool cleaner pole so I fixed a wall storage bracket to one end so we now have another option to safely lower branches; heavy duty rope with with end loop knot or the grabber pole.

I also made this lead rope grabber.

This light duty rope with wooden block is thrown over a high branch and the grabber is used to retrieve. The main rope is then tied to that and pulled over the branch.