Just one of me
Oct. 7th, 2010 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysA whole week of fine weather. I don't remember the last time we had one of those. I've been using the time to clear vegetation from around the sides of the house. It started with a need to remove branches overhanging the drain I was clearing (last post), then further clearing to stop the overhang over the path around the house and the overhang over the house itself. The scope increased until it is now possible to walk right around my place without being attacked by an aggressive branch or fern. A good part of that overhang has now been fed through the chipper and is gracing the beds of what I laughingly refer to as my garden.
But this morning was another step in intensity. I decided to take out a couple of trees that were shading areas that didn't need shade. The trees weren't serving any decorative function either. In fact one of them was dead*. They weren't very big trees - the larger (live) one being 4 or 5 metres tall and about 150mm diameter trunk, ut it is more than just sawing through the base - a lot of side branches and the top have to be taken off before doing the actual felling. That is quite enough though when you are doing the sawing with a bow saw. None of those chainsaw things for me. A big part of this whole process is actually giving me some exercise. Still, about half way through the second tree, I was wondering whether a chainsaw might not be a good idea after all. A small amount of irony there - I was woken up by the noise from a chainsaw this morning and I cursed its owner for owning such a noisy machine.
*Interesting side note - when I think of the term "dead tree", my first thought these days is of print journalism. I wonder when that shift happened.
But this morning was another step in intensity. I decided to take out a couple of trees that were shading areas that didn't need shade. The trees weren't serving any decorative function either. In fact one of them was dead*. They weren't very big trees - the larger (live) one being 4 or 5 metres tall and about 150mm diameter trunk, ut it is more than just sawing through the base - a lot of side branches and the top have to be taken off before doing the actual felling. That is quite enough though when you are doing the sawing with a bow saw. None of those chainsaw things for me. A big part of this whole process is actually giving me some exercise. Still, about half way through the second tree, I was wondering whether a chainsaw might not be a good idea after all. A small amount of irony there - I was woken up by the noise from a chainsaw this morning and I cursed its owner for owning such a noisy machine.
*Interesting side note - when I think of the term "dead tree", my first thought these days is of print journalism. I wonder when that shift happened.