Congratulations and good luck on your sale.

Ummmm. Sort of curious why you posted this though. I guess you've spoiled us in the past with your other kinds of posts.

Oh well.............

@ SS - I love playing with power tools. At my Grandparents, we usually end up out with the chainsaws chopping down some trees (storm damaged or just dead), and by trees.........i mean TREES (not saplings - but real trees - biggest one they got is 1.5M in diameter - major tree!).

Its good fun cuttin through - but sometimes clearing can bite you in the butt....with all our careful calculations we dropped one into the lake once. It was leaning that way, but with my grandpa's JCB, and landrover.....it still went wrong way (ropes used to help it fall right way, JCB one snapped, Land Rover got pulled backwards! = splash down for tree (not vehicle)).

Made a whole new difference to loggin.......as we cut it up in the water (no way it could be pulled/ lifted - and whilst it was in the lake you could easily WALK along the trunk to start removing stuff). That is good fun Just thought i would share that with ya.

I'm the one in the family who always has to take out trees, probably because I the strongest, and have a thing for axes . I have taken out HEAPS of trees around our house. I know what you went through, old son. Have some ginger beer and relax!

@Indy11, thanks for the congrats, as for your other point ... what are you a forum critic?

@Chips, i didn't use power tools, all saws. We left the big ones (not many) for the gas powered fun machines!

That tree over a lake story ... hmm ... sounds like it fell the right way to me, it's just that you were trying to go against nature.

@Esq, I'm the only one capable of doing these things in my family. Which is why I called on a friend to help. I didn't need axes this time, though maybe on the few big trees left over.

As for ginger beer ... what does that taste like? If it is heavy on the ginger, I probably won't like it, but then if it was heavy on the beer, I still wouldn't like it. I'm a mix drink man, myself. But I do know how to relax.

Here's the tally for my 8 hour ordeal:

5 very large piles
20% Shrubs
25% Vine plants, they were litterally suffocating "the forest," killing trees.
25% Dead trees of medium size or smaller
15% Living trees of medium size or smaller
10% Of larger trees all living (one or two dead)
5% Large trees that still need to be chainsawed or axed.

I quotationed forest because that's what the neighbor said at the council meeting to make the city stop me from doing the lot split. As you can see it was a pretty wimpy little forest, which is why in my subject title I put in parentheses a large thicket.

To answer Indy11 in a way, I was just so pleased I could accomplish so much is so short a time. I needed to share and I don't often start topics, so just be glad I did.


Sir S

Edited by - Sir Spectre on 2/23/2004 7:32:25 PM

You should see how much wood we've got piled up at the back of my garden. If university doesn't pan out for me I could probably quite easily survive as a tree surgeon! In the last few months we've built up such a huge pile I'm not sure how many tonnes of wood there is to burn. Firstly when the next door neighbour died we quickly took the opportunity to cut down (with permission from our late neighbours son) one 30ft tall conifer that was blocking loads of light and a few huge oak branches hanging over our garden. Then my mum decided to drag me and my dad into cutting out various branches from all the oaks in our garden in a large scale pruning attempt. Since then the 25-30ft tall field maple got blown down in some strong winds and we've been chopping that to pieces and digging it out. That was all done with saws, a big feckin' axe, a mattock and some scarily sharp tool, kinda like a machete that'll go through 2½ inch diameter sections of branch at the base in one short swing. I know how much hard work it is, but with the sawing as soon as you get your rhythm its not so bad. Plus when you've got to dig out a fallen tree, you need to lift it over at some point to rip out the roots on the other side, it was strangely satisfying when my brother and I managed to physically lift a large section of tree and then had to barge it over as if we were trying to tackle it! Having said all that, it must've been a pain in the arse having to deal with all those fiddly little shrubs all the time.

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i was 7 when the big people were logging... logging an area measuring by about.. 300 x 100 m area of forest (that we owned)

i hope you returned thier xmas trees

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some scarily sharp tool, kinda like a machete that'll go through 2½ inch diameter sections of branch at the base in one short swing

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Sounds a bit like my parang. I got it in Borneo (see my sig) and is about 2 feet long. It's quite blunt at the moment but even so, I accidently touched the blade and cut myself...

Some jobs are very satisfying to do and chopping trees is one of them

My gap year in Borneo

@Recuscant, I think there's a little more to being a tree surgeon than just cutting them down. But then again, maybe there isn't.

@kimk, it wasn't me!

@Steel, I'll be returning with a stronger case for what I want ... that and photographic evidence.

@Zone, this job was satisfying. Especially since I returned the area to what it was before those weedy shrubs and horrific vines came into the area. The vines would litterally attach themselves in ways I didn't were possible around trees. The longest vine I pulled out intact was probably 20 metres long and spanned several trees. The base of the vine was so thick, I thought it was a tree!

Sir S

It's too bad that you cut the thicket down, SS. Haven't you ever wanted to go for a stroll in the woods after work?

Ginger beer is heavy on the ginger, and that's the way I like it!

you're also completely obsessed by statistics and lists, sS, do you make tallies of everything? (j/k!)

@Ss if you are in my neck of the woods, *pun intended*, you can give me a hand with a tree I have been trying to cut up with a skill saw. No, not big, just bushy, lots of limbs, no trunk.

Finalday

Habaq Mot Keh Yom Yasa. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

@Esq, it wasn't big enough to take a stroll through, that's why I keep making fun of my neighbors for calling it a forest. Besides a lot of the brush and vines had thorns on them. Not fun for walking through.

@Taw, I naturally break things down into smaller components without even giving it much thought. It also helps me study the world around me and research things for say ... oh, I don't know character plays based on real events.

@finalday, what is your neck of the woods? And when I went to check if you already had that in your profile, I found reason to ask another question. Why is your email address at Operamail?

Sir S

you got one of them wicked massive tree shredders? my cousin's mate lost an arm up to the elbow in one of them...

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