RED BUD, Ill. - A group of eager school kids gathered outside redbud high school to see the progress on the down tree being turned into a new piece of art.

Luca, the chainsaw artist has been at the school for a couple of days--skillfully welding his chainsaw to carve the sculpture.

"The tree was 4 foot wide lot of big chunk. They need to get down and stuff in them now we’re finally getting to the smaller part where I use smaller detailed chainsaw," Luca Jean said.

The project almost didn’t happen until the school's athletic director, Dane Walter, proposed the idea.

"We’re missing out on the opportunity if we don’t make a life-size musketeer out of this tree cutting down, I knew there was a local guy looked him up. Gave him a phone call and within a few minutes we had him on the on the

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