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.
You and Beau are cut from the same cloth! :)
40 mph gusts today in CT. I Hear I huge clatter, like lightening & thunder. I look out ... a 70-foot hemlock crashed near the house ... took the top half of another hemlock with it on the way down.
I dodged a bullet, it’s 30 feet from my house and 30 feet from the neighbor’s. It missed everything.
It’s odd ... Cuz the tree was alive. Usual only the dead hemlocks fall.