Great pumpkins! And I agree with the ‘reasons women live longer.’
Beau is famous for his total disregard of all OSHA Regulations, now that he’s retired. :(
Sometimes the tightwad in me overcomes my highly-developed sense of self-preservation. It would have much easier, and definitely safer, to have a professional tree service out for this job, but they would have gigged me for at least five bills.
I’m not crazy about ladders, but I don’t mind using one to climb into the carry-all basket. It’s not much different that working out of the basket on a boom truck, other than having to climb down every time I need to move around a bit.
Pops never had a loader tractor when we were farming. I don’t know how we managed without one. Hydraulics are one of mankind’s finest inventions.