Thanks to John Eacott for sizing the pictures.
First picture is typical of the trees that were trimmed, and is also the culprit causing the only injury: the tree that the squad leader ran into egressing into the night.
Next shot is the portable maintenance crane being used to R/R the main blades. You can see the type trees that were hit by the blades during descent.
3rd shot is the ship as it looked in the morning after the landing. The greater amount of blade core that is missing on the South Carolina ship compared to this one is obvoius. I remember that the amount of core that was missing on this blade was 10-12 feet,and that was all out toward the tip cap. Hard to see that in this picture.
The last photo is the Army crew flying the ship out, after the young troopers with the chainsaws had done their work. Getting the machine back to the cornfield used by the 101st for the evaluation and ready for missions so quickly surprised a few people, but probably shouldn't have. The design spec requirements for that aircraft, in particular the basic structural standards, the crashworthy requirements and the ballistic survivability requirements blended to make a very tough machine.