All the branches to be cut up.
Garden Photos of '09......#3
Another shot of my sister.
karen - do not let rc see these pic's - no safety glasses or chaps - she would not be happy. actually i do not wear the safety stuff either although i will start using safety glasses. and my arms are tired from the chain sawing activity as well - must be muscles that are normally used.
Hope and Patches.
Yeah, Bill I know. Well, we don't have the money for the safety gear right now, but since we are planning to do more work, then we will get some. I don't think Hope would wear the safety gear. She would just poo-poo that idea. I would wear it, though. I am quite sore myself. This is the first real work I've done in months!!!!
Here is another shot of Hope and Patches.
Hope tossing a log.
also forget the loppers - just use the chain saw to cut up those smaller branches to a size small enough to carry it is much faster. i was using my loppers for a while and it really was time consuming, chain saw took minutes
We made a big dent in all those branches. Cutting down this tree gives us a lot more sun for the veggie garden, which we are expanding this year.
Hope, Dad, Buffy and Patches taking a break.
This is how it looked at the end of the day. Okay, now I have to get out there and get more work done.
Karen
you guys got a lot done.. good job
My husband will be in the lumber/woods now 53 years in March. He started at 6 years old. At that time he would handle the work horses and get a candy bar and soda at the end of the day. At his age now he runs one mean chainsaw. Most men cant even begin to keep up with him. Safety issues is to each his own. He never did none and wouldnt.
Now you get to have a bigger veggie garden!!!!! whoo hoo
Nice work, Karen---I can see why you're sore. Sherrie--I'm stuck in a rut this time of year also---can't wait to get outside, & more snow being forecast--darn! My son has cleared a lot of his land for the house, & now for firewood--he wears a protective suit, but it still scares me when he uses the saw---it was my DH's saw, but thank God Garret spirited it out of the house--my DH is always threatening to use it--of, course, he can just about walk, never mind pick up a saw!
Very brave of you to take the tree down. We had a dead elm tree next to our back porch taken down, never would have been able to get in there & do it ourselves, being in our 70s. Branches on other trees were removed as they were lying up against the house. There will be more light in a couple of beds & roof damage was averted.
I have used pansy seed from years ago... they should still be good... they are pretty neat
Nice black violas schickenlady. I'm trying 'Crystal Black' this year. They were fast little germinators. RC I was wondering when the hellebores bloom relative to the other spring flowers. I'm thinking of putting them in the same bed as primulas but I won't if they bloom at the same time. Of course this will be 18 months from now after they germinate LOL. Anyone growing hepaticas? I want to mix them with my anemone blandas.
Love those hellebores! I haven't met one I did not like either. Wow - lots of work, Karen. I would never do that without safety glasses and gloves. Neither is expensive. You can improvise something for chaps. Just not worth the risk. One accident and your life is changed forever.
Signs of life!
Cryptomeria.
Closer.
A bit wider.
if you are going to start this early with blooms - there will be issues!
Hee hee. Here's a real closeup of the snowdrop.
Thanks all!!
Bill, You're right! The first thing that I thought of was.... ohhh, no glasses! Then no chaps! I'll admit that I don't always put on chaps if I'm just running the saw for a few minutes, but.... much longer than that and I do. I almost always have sun glasses on or near me whenever I'm outside, they double as protective eye wear! I say almost because, wearing them in the rain is a pain. I have yet to find a good pair with windshield wipers!
Karen, It looks fantastic! Love the Pictures. glad that you're having fun with it.
Just remember, if you ever want stories gross enough to shock a person into safety gear.... I have many. several of them of folks I know first hand, and yes they were folks who've been running it many years and know how. And two stories that are my own!!!
Schicken, that's funny. It's almost the opposite here. I don't know any woodsperson that wont run a saw, for just a few minutes, without stuff. But, I also don't know any who won't wear at least chaps when heading out for a wood cutting project. We look really funny! But, our insurance will also cover any claims that way!!! I suppose that it could also have something to do with the amount of underbrush. The chaps do double duty at helping protect from all the things pinned under the tree that are going to flail around as soon as they're released. I had a tiny sliver actually get into my eye once. The thing was almost microscopic, but the infection was a lot larger!! Oh... Those black violets are beautiful!! Maybe I'll have to get some to go with the black hellebores. Where did you get those, maybe it's someplace that I can order from?
Dahlia, that's sooo hard to pin down a time for them! I had some try to come up in December, but the weather got to them and after a month of freeze/thaw/freeze/thaw every day they finally turned to mush before blooming. The others set buds in January, but have just stayed that way and are STILL only in bud!! However, Niger or it's close relatives, will almost always be up by late Feb. Then Micha (aka ericsmithii x ??) in early March. The hybrids range all over between Jan and March depending on the weather. Then of course, that's all in this climate here. So, sorry that I really didn't help anything for you Dahlia! The corsicans are pretty reliable at late Feb/early March. Hmmmm.... I think that I just muddled things up!!
Robin, your son and I would get along great! We both would look funny, but without any gashes across our legs!
I didn't fall this tree, nature did that. But, it fell down across a trail that we were clearing out that day and had to be removed from the trail. This is pretty standard attire (I don't wear the hard hat when I'm cutting at home) minus the eye stuff because it's raining. But, the dust can't fly that high when It's raining anyhow.
If anyone is curious, I'll post the picture taken once done and the trail was in place again.
there are deer in your yard right now eating them!
Heheee, nice shots Victor. Didn't see those while I was typing.
Are there already issues this year Bill??? this is not good, but definitely funny!!
Not funny, Bill!
Shelly, that must have made a thud when it went! Is that you?
so shelly are you the size of tom thumb or is that a big tree?
i noticed the wedge at the top of the cut will have to remember that.
and victor neither are the blooms when i have 2' ft of snow on the ground:)
Thank goodness I wasn't close enough to hear it. I would've been running! Yep, that's me, pic was taken about a year and half ago.
I thought the wedge was her coffee!
haha..... your all crack ups.
Bill...I'm 6' tall. I sure that I would've scared Tom Thumb to death! The wedge is doing double duty there. That's a 32" bar on the saw, but the tree was close 48", so it had to be cut from both sides. Wedge holds things in place when you go to cut on the other side. But, that tree also had tons (literally) of pressure there due to the top being slightly propped up on something. If No wedge used = your not bringing the saw back home with you!! And.... when your boss saying, with a cuban accent, "Lucy.....you got some xplaining to do!!
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schicken.... lol, ok... that sounds perfect to me. And you have good taste in plants!
Victor... Orange coffee cup???? out in the woods, we call coffee cups thermoses. lol
You can see why we'd be an insurance companies nightmare.
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Yes - so you don't lose it.
Ohhhh... I got it now. That makes perfect sense!
Sorry, about cutting through the Hickory without one!!!! that would've killed me.
Yes, with a dad that was 6'2" and a mom that's 5'11", I was doomed!!
Then when I have those cluncky work boots on, it adds another 2 or 3 inches. It's easy to see how it's easier for me to get the teenage work crews to behave!
Wow - didn't know there were Amazon women in OR!!^_^