Buzzkill prevention thread {capture and kill the bad juju}

[scumrot derelict]

I had to climb up to cut the limb hanging over the road. {magnolia tree in foreground is about chest high} Slight shin barking during log hopping dismount.

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Careful climbing with a running saw. I took a friend to the hospital for doing that a few months back.

 

[too larry]

Careful climbing with a running saw. I took a friend to the hospital for doing that a few months back.

Yep. Not to mention I'm too old for this shit anyway.

 

[ANC]

 

[too larry]

The wife and I were walking yesterday on the road in front of the house. A neighbor stopped to ask if he could have some of the broken red cedar trees in the little wood on the corner. I gave him the go ahead. Will see if the mess is more or less afterward.

 

[abalonehx]

"Climbing Mountains Carrying a Chainsaw" happens to be the title of a musical piece I was composing... wait, someone's at the door...

 

[too larry]

"Climbing Mountains Carrying a Chainsaw" happens to be the title of a musical piece I was composing... wait, someone's at the door...

I have been so lucky. Had a couple of real close calls felling trees that would have been bad had it been an inch or two in the other direction. Also just the everyday slips, tangled in grapevines and snagging my cargo pocket with the moving chain.

 

[abalonehx]

I have been so lucky. Had a couple of real close calls felling trees that would have been bad had it been an inch or two in the other direction. Also just the everyday slips, tangled in grapevines and snagging my cargo pocket with the moving chain.

I'm not entirely unfamiliar with this situation as I grew up in the Appalachians and we used go up the mountain to clear trees to grow pot. Chainsaws and partying in the woods. Eugene was always Careful, though.

 

[too larry]

I'm not entirely unfamiliar with this situation as I grew up in the Appalachians and we used go up the mountain to clear trees to grow pot. Chainsaws and partying in the woods. Eugene was always Careful, though.

I know it's crazy, but I still smoke before I do anything. I guess my thinking is I'm used to it, so going in straight might be dangerous.

 

[abalonehx]

I was alerted by someone at the door apparently moving their knuckles in a swift movement in rapid succession making contact with the wood. I didn't answer it.

 

[abalonehx]

I suppose it's whatever you're used to or, adapted to. I couldn't do it. The mountains I climb are all horizontal and crumbling. The chainsaws are pens and paper and computers.

 

[too larry]

I suppose it's whatever you're used to or, adapted to. I couldn't do it. The mountains I climb are all horizontal and crumbling. The chainsaws are pens and paper and computers.

My mountains are this hurricane recovery. Between what I own with my sister and my wife, I have 135'ish acres of broken timber. The land is pretty flat but most of the trees are horizontal, or learners at least. All I've tried to do is cut roads and fire trails. Haven't got a lot done so far. It's not all that rough after you get used to it. It's just that it is really slow going and there is just so much to be done, and with me working full time, 3 or 4 half days is the most I can put into it in a week. I'm too tight to hire it done. (not to mention being broke after buying the river house) So it will be years in the doing. I have five years to get it back in some kind of ag, or risk losing my green belt ag exemptions. I'm thinking of putting citrus on the 20 acres at the house. I have 20-30 pink grapefruit sprouts early on in a 50 seed seed test. Several hundred seeds on hand, so hope to get lots of them potted and kept alive until the land is ready.

 

[Bareback]

My mountains are this hurricane recovery. Between what I own with my sister and my wife, I have 135'ish acres of broken timber. The land is pretty flat but most of the trees are horizontal, or learners at least. All I've tried to do is cut roads and fire trails. Haven't got a lot done so far. It's not all that rough after you get used to it. It's just that it is really slow going and there is just so much to be done, and with me working full time, 3 or 4 half days is the most I can put into it in a week. I'm too tight to hire it done. (not to mention being broke after buying the river house) So it will be years in the doing. I have five years to get it back in some kind of ag, or risk losing my green belt ag exemptions. I'm thinking of putting citrus on the 20 acres at the house. I have 20-30 pink grapefruit sprouts early on in a 50 seed seed test. Several hundred seeds on hand, so hope to get lots of them potted and kept alive until the land is ready.

When I drove through there last year it was a sad sight. I will be a long up hill climb to clear that flat ground. Best of luck to ya.

 

[too larry]

I've been spending so much time at the riverhouse, I haven't really done much on the rest of the farm. But the wife has been wanting to fish. The bank at the river is too high for easy fishing, and I still haven't got the trail to, or the beach itself cleaned enough for her to walk down there. So I hit the pond road a couple of nights last week after supper. I'm able to drive in, maybe 75 yards off the paved road. A few bigger logs to go, then at least 100 yards of easy going. Most everything is cut, it just has to be moved, until you get to the camp. I stopped there. I haven't cut any of the switchback that goes down to the pond. But it's only 30 yards or so.

Looking out toward the paved road.