Storm damage

Al Smith

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This is just one of several the wind destroyed .It really wasn't a big deal although I was at it about all day .Broke off about 25 foot up .

You gotta kind of cut your way into a mess like that .Geeze I have a brush pile the size of a single car garage from this bushy SOB .

Fence posted it down and since I don't have a skid loader pulled the top out with the old Fergeuson tractor .It's a basswood AKA American linden .I had to take out a pine too easy drop .
 

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Oh that's just a start .I thought two days but it's going to be longer .Damned green wood I won't be able to torch off the pile until October .It's too dry out now anyway .

I'd imagine they'd get their nose out of joint if I fired off a wheat stubble field .Not good .
 
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Wow I had forgotten how heavy green cut oak is .Big old limb blew down and I had the wedge split the chunks just to lift them into the trailer .That SOB was 22 inchs in diameter where it broke off .

Alas old age has caught up with me .At one time I could lift 150 pounds but those days are long gone it seems .:(
 
I could too until I bought the Boxer. :lol:

Don't be so hard on yourself Al, if you don't do it everyday you won't be able to do it today. Or, Use it or Lose it.
 
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