Firewood day
Quick post today. Split up the firewood this morning, then got a crew together and dropped a tree. Did it properly this time. Perfect alignment, minimal damage (ok, I munted a blackwood a bit, but there was no choice, and it will recover fine, just a few branches hit, no trunk damage)
Second load this afternoon the tree tipped back sooner than expected and caught the blade again - had to pull apart the saw and cut it with an axe. Really hard work - had to axe out a lot before I could take it down. It fell backwards but luckily there was a clear run back that way - didn't even hit any treeferns!
So two loads of wood in, split and stacked. Pretty solid day's work. My score for dropping trees is still pretty dodgy, two bad, one good. Hoping to improve that tomorrow with another 2 good!
Arms are really tired - it's hard work - less intense that the heavy weights at the gym, but much more endurance. Hundreds of reps with minimal breaks.
Second load this afternoon the tree tipped back sooner than expected and caught the blade again - had to pull apart the saw and cut it with an axe. Really hard work - had to axe out a lot before I could take it down. It fell backwards but luckily there was a clear run back that way - didn't even hit any treeferns!
So two loads of wood in, split and stacked. Pretty solid day's work. My score for dropping trees is still pretty dodgy, two bad, one good. Hoping to improve that tomorrow with another 2 good!
Arms are really tired - it's hard work - less intense that the heavy weights at the gym, but much more endurance. Hundreds of reps with minimal breaks.