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Old 15-06-2008, 05:25 AM   #5 (permalink)
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most of which stood along a small, winding road in the middle of the forest
Anyone seen those tractors that have an arm attached to a blade "platform" that can be tilted to prune at heaight as the tractor drives along? Wouldn't have been hard to do and much less disruption than chopping them down. Indeed, the officials who ordered the work would have had access to such machinery...
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