Sunday, April 18, 2010

Any Landing You Can Walk Away From...

As the saying goes; any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Well... I apply that to my cutting down trees. :-p I don’t like using a chainsaw and I can’t say that I am good at it. But I do get the job done. Nick, my youngest nephew, said that he would cut the notches next time. Thank-you, thank-you, it’s all yours Nick.

Anyhow, we got down three small trees and one larger Mulberry tree. The Mulberry tree is too close to the garden and the others are on the fence line. Here is Illinois you have to keep on it or the trees will take over the fence lines. Also I want to get fruit trees plant about 10 feet from the fence and I can’t with all of those trees. And then there are the rabbits. If you have a clear and clean fence you have a chance keeping them out.

I still have to clean up the mess, but am taking it slowly, trying not to over do it. I hope that Monday I will be back up and running strong. I have some roofing to take off.

So here are the before and after pictures.

Before

After

The Mulberry tree. It's bigger than it looks.

4 comments:

  1. Yuo say the mulberry tree is bigger than it lookd. well it must be huge coz it looks pretty huge to me. wow you get alot of physical work done. i always looks like such hard work cutting down trees and that roof sounded killer as well. i hope that you feel like your up and running on monday. good luck with taking down the roof.
    rawr
    Raron

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  2. Its been a while since i wrote here. I been really busy to. The sun has started to come out more, after about 2 weeks of raining everyday and i have been riding my Dirt Bikes with Mike and getting everything ready for the horses to came back next weekend. I thought my dad and i was going for them but he is getting a trucker to bring them on one load, instead of us having to make two trips to get them all. I see you really been busy with your project to. Take care and don't over work. Hugs JJ.

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  3. Love mullberries Sterling - should keep at least one. What fruit trees do you plan on planting.
    Regards Stef

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  4. Hey Guys,
    I will try not to over do it, but I am having a time finding a balance. There is so much to do, and want to do. But I will try.

    Mulberries and Hackberry trees come us all over the place around here. You can't eat hackberry BTW. Good for fire wood though. I want to get a Mulberry tree in a different spot and train it, like Japanese stile. This was so big, like a large apple tree, that we really couldn't harvest the berries.

    I want to have; Asian Pear, Bing cherry, peach and some apple.

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