First step in putting up the 17' tall Christmas Tree is to get it into our living room. You can see Cliff here with the tree stand that he has built.
Here is a close up look it is a standard large tree stand that he attached to a sheet of plywood that has turn buckles on the corners to help hold up the tree. The stand also has wheels so he can roll it around to decorate.
The stand goes on before the tree stands up sorry I have to help with that and so you don't get to see how I stand and hold the stand in place as Cliff goes to the top of the tree and start to walk it up into place so there isn't a photo of that.
Once it is up he then takes wire and wraps it around the tree into the buckles to help stabilize the tree.
Then once it is up he rolls it over to our loft and takes a ladder into to the loft to decorate the top from part from that location.
He is still on a ladder but now on the main floor and I'll help on the lower part of the tree.
For us it then gets rolled over to the Prow of our living room.
Here it is in all it's slender and I hope this helps you understand the "secret" to our tall tree.
Merry Christmas & Happy 2012 to all !!!!
3 comments:
Beautiful Chris!! Its the opposite of our very short tree in our Little Yellow Cottage! :o)
Love the "secret" to a tall tree! Can't wait til we're in our log home and decorating our first lodge pole tree! We'll have to build a tree stand like Cliff's!
We can't wait to help you find that tall tree...all though not sure I have ever had a lodge pole pine tree as a Christmas tree. This one is something like a Noble Fir but not, something more to learn different types of good Christmas trees :)
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