We received 1.67″ of rain up on the land Wednesday night/yesterday morning, and according to Beate, ½” of it came in about ten minutes. She and Tim expected culvert problems, but they had to do only minimal cleaning of the culverts on their way to work. In particular, the culvert they recently unburied worked just fine.
There was a road problem later as they drove to work via Road 36 — they needed to use four wheel drive to get over a two-foot-high rock flow across road. When she got to work Beate phoned Andy to let him know what the conditions were. He took our usual route when he went up and had no problems. Until, that is, he got to our section of the road and had to remove this tree. The tree was leaning across the road, so he had to reach up to make the first cut.
Andy worked on the tree from about ten until noon, then from noon until one he cleaned out the culverts as he drove up to the house.
So far this rainy season has been a lot easier than the past few!
July 31, 2015
I suspect that Andy loves it there because it helps in keeping him fit!
Yes, both physically and mentally.
isn’t it wonderful to see some green undergrowth there again!
we got none of your rain.
some parts of our state did… the nw corner especially but we’re awfully dry.
a slight chance today. keeping fingers crossed!
and WOW. that’s a bunch of free firewood for andy!
he makes everything look so easy. but i know it’s HARD work.
About the trees — there are two more leaners that we’re concerned about. If one falls down when he’s on his way home without enough daylight for him to deal with it, he would stay up on the land. But with no phone (no reception up there) I would have to phone the fellow we’ve lined up as backup and we would go up to check on him. We talked about it last night and the agreement is he would leave the porch light on so Greg and I could see it from a distance and know he’s all right. Not a bad plan, but I do hope he looks into finding someone who can cut them down ahead of time.
Never a dull moment up there!
We still have a chance of more rain, then it will no doubt peter out. I’m with you, rain is heaven, especially when it doesn’t wash out the roads. 🙂
yep agree it looks easy to cut up trunks…but then again yep, on matters of telecommunication if something should go astray…
Those are big trunks, even for a 25-pound power saw with a 20-inch blade. And some of the cuts were potentially dangerous, especially the first one when most of the tree was off the ground. Andy has to be careful where the pieces would fall.
The main reason he might be trapped for the night is if it were too dark to saw safely.
I’ve cut tree limbs and it was HARD work.
To cut something that big must be exhausting.
I like the porch light idea! Genius!
He wouldn’t do it now without his power saw. Even so, it did take him about two hours to do it.
That IS a thick trunk. The way the tree was laying, it looks like the first cut had the potential for pinning the chainsaw bar if cutting from the top.
Does he have wedges to keep the cut from pinning the bar? I already had some steel wedges and bought some hard plastic wedges for felling trees using a new (to me) technique. I use the hard plastic wedges to protect the chain if I have to cut near where I’m using the wedges.
He cuts about 1/3 to 2/3 through the wood from above, inserts the plastic wedges on top to keep the two sides from slipping and grabbing the saw, then cuts the rest from underneath.