We had very high winds last night. They’re still going on right now. And just two days ago, I did the job pictured below. It was really good timing.

This house has a large maple tree in the back yard. It had lots of large branches overhanging the roof:

I couldn’t remove all of the stuff over the house without taking too much foliage from the tree. But I could reduce it by over fifty percent. I favored the more vertical branches since they will shed snow. Snow-loading is the cause of a lot of breakage on hardwood trees. I also took out the elm on the side of the house, which was right against the foundation. Now it looks like this: