In order to keep the trails in the 124 acre natural area walkable and xc skiable I have to keep after the logs across the trails. My 12 inch electric chainsaw seized up a couple of years ago and is no longer useable. My 16 inch gas chainsaw is not something I want to try. So I'm left with a 13 inch curved pruning saw. I've tackled 14 in. logs with it, and bound it up many times. After the trails are cleared of the big stuff, I started cutting down the invasive buckthorn trees. In late October, these trees are the only ones still having green leaves. In the 5 miles of trails there must be thousands of buckthorn trees, from 1 in to 6 in diameter.
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| This twin trunked tree is causing me lots of problems, for one it is lying on the ground, not able to cut from below |
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| Managed to get the remnant moved but will have to cut that same log again for the trail. |
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| I had to cut thru this one twice because the cuts bound the saw multiple times, lucky I was on this side when it fell down. |
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| Could just cut from the top on this one since it was hanging in the air, only 10 in. diameter |
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| Got thru one side of this one and tried to lever it out of the way, one-handed levering doesn't work for this size log. Had to cut thru the log again, that 5 foot log is moveable with one hand. |
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| This took a bit of cutting in the correct order, top down. |
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| Stumps of buckthorn |
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| Buckthorn berries |
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| Cute mushrooms in this wet fall |
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| More mushrooms growing amongst the moss |
Amazing. I worry when my husband goes out to clear trees w his chainsaw - and he's got two useable upper limbs. I suppose you climb on roofs too.
ReplyDeleteNope, apartment living for me now. Hey, I used to be a steeplejack in summers; shingling, painting and repairing church steeples. Got the job because the previous employee fell from a steeple and died. The worst was having to shimmy up large crosses to paint them, getting down was messy. Only once did I get stranded on the top of a steeple, the bosses son screwed up.
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