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M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Started the day with the local park maintenance supervisor- hiked the trails and ID’d the trees he wants dealt with. Screwy guy; a totally book-learned Certified Arborist; kept pointing out the red oaks and calling them Q. velutina. He basically said, “If it is more than 25 feet from the middle of the trail leave it; I don’t have the budget”. I repeatedly pointed out that an 80 foot tree 25 ft away could still crush a hiker in his wooded park. He won’t be there, so I’ll just go ahead and deal with the worst ones. He’ll send Bob, one of his employees to haul equipment for me. Bob is a knowledgeable certified arborist which is cool.
Then I went and figured out why one of my octogenarian patient’s garbage disposals wasn’t working and fixed it.
Then I took down a thirty foot, very dead pine. Took longer to rake up the gazillion little dry pieces than to fell it. Then a last minute prune of an apple tree. Mainly just removing the secondary upright growth and a few crossing branches and opened the middle to keep it light and airy, then off to the green waste site to dump the load.
Ran home to unload tools, then headed down to help my friend continue to organize his wood shop. He gave me a load of nice cutoffs (walnut, oak, spalted and Ambrosia maple) - enough to half fill my truck bed. I’ll take it to Charlot, my sister-in-law who makes cutting boards and other small items. Her charity is called “Wood for Water” and she ‘sells’ the items she makes in trade for donations toward digging wells for communities without water.
https://woodforwater.org/
After dinner I had the last piece of my birthday cake. That’ll be it for cake till next birthday.
Then I went and figured out why one of my octogenarian patient’s garbage disposals wasn’t working and fixed it.
Then I took down a thirty foot, very dead pine. Took longer to rake up the gazillion little dry pieces than to fell it. Then a last minute prune of an apple tree. Mainly just removing the secondary upright growth and a few crossing branches and opened the middle to keep it light and airy, then off to the green waste site to dump the load.
Ran home to unload tools, then headed down to help my friend continue to organize his wood shop. He gave me a load of nice cutoffs (walnut, oak, spalted and Ambrosia maple) - enough to half fill my truck bed. I’ll take it to Charlot, my sister-in-law who makes cutting boards and other small items. Her charity is called “Wood for Water” and she ‘sells’ the items she makes in trade for donations toward digging wells for communities without water.
https://woodforwater.org/
After dinner I had the last piece of my birthday cake. That’ll be it for cake till next birthday.
