Anyone who has worked with concrete quickly learns that upside down work is tricky. Troweling curved and upside down surfaces ramps up the difficulty even more. Working at the end of your reach, in a tight space as you do it makes it even trickier. Sculpting trees is all of the above. We anticipated that sculpting the bark on the tree would take two days. With three of us troweling on the concrete mix and sculpting as it began to cure things went well. Grant managed to keep up with blending the perfect mix of fibreglass reinforced concrete. We started at the top and by noon we were more than half way down the trunk. We decided to keep going, working through lunch to complete the application of the concrete. A couple of hours later we had finished the sculpting. It’s a wonderfully fun tree!