Still tree-mendous

Longtime readers may remember a story from two years ago where Durelle Pritchard of Pontiac, Ill., decided to do something different about getting rid of a nuisance pine tree in his yard.

Instead of chopping down the tree, he had a chain-saw artist whittle it into the shape of an old-fashioned gas pump. Pritchard’s house sits just a block east of Route 66 (map here), and the sculpture served as a tribute to the Mother Road as well.

Pritchard gave us this emailed update about his sculpture:

I had landscaping done and many dollars worth of rose bushes & flowers to spruce things up around it.  […] It receives many photos & looks.  Many think it is an original old gas pump instead of my several-years-ago 75-foot-tall pine tree.  People will pass by, then go around the block to take a closer look.

Pritchard also provided a photo. As they say at the Jackrabbit Trading Post in Arizona, here it is:

It sounds like Pritchard is still having fun with that former tree.

(Photo courtesy of Durelle Pritchard)

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