Well it seems that yesterday was a nothing day sort of. The body felt like sack of hammers and when it does there's little i can do to except the findings. So today I guess it will be a catch up day of sorts, need to get that lawn done, been talking about it for the past few days but it just keeps growing.
Was hoping the chickens were going to trim it up-but they just graze-move on.
We had another brief storm roll through yesterday and just enough for the haying not to be done, so that makes it the third day in a row now that its rained on the parade.
Was in the barn yesterday tending the coop and I kept hearing this noise, I finally thought is there a critter trying to get in through the upper back wall?
I went out and found a 6" limb off a maple tree snapped partway and was dragging along the rear of the steel roof.
This limb is up 20' and bending down, now I put the 12' ladder up onto the tree-and quickly decided I didn't want to be another idiot cutting branch down video capture.
So it was get the new 12' Stihl pole trimmer and trimmed the branch off right off the roof edge. Cutting 4" of branch was safer and easier than up on a ladder. Still what layed down was a good 10ft of branch that I had to drag off once I hook a strap on to the butt end.
These little wind shears that have been occurring this summer has created a lot of extra work. There's probably a weeks worth of cutting with the saws just to buck up and remove what's been blown down this past month.
With over 350 maple trees to tap for sap I don't really miss a tree, as the ones that are being hit are mainly the Ash/Elm/Pine as they have the bug infestation that's being going on.
We don't dare walk on the trails when it's breezy even, too many dead branches in the crowns come down onto the paths.
I got hit across the shoulders with a 1" branch that wasn't even that long a few years back. But falling from 60+ft up it's an eye opener.
