Clear and 62 @ 930AM here, I should get on a ladder and do some things to my guttering while I have decent weather. I also need to find one of my dang caulk guns - got some leaks that prevent me replacing a few stretches of soffet. If I get these items done, I have a gallon of white exterior paint in the shop that will cover it for now.

Beats having the rafter ends rot...

 

62!?...

 

In spite of a halfway nice day - my energy levels dived. All I got done when I woke up from lunch (Yeah - I nodded out after eating) was this:





Tomorrow I finish carving them to pieces, and drop one more. The view from my neighbors house is forever changed

I can maybe take down more than one - but there is a lot of small stuff that has to be hacked and trashed...

I must not lose sight of the fact that winter this year may be short, and the time to get rid of all this mess is while it isn't tangled in green growth.
The clock is running

 

Looking good Grey!

 

Just held a gun on a man . He was coon hunting , A bit of talk , family name , close neighbor sort of . He was in my woods . I gave him permission to continue his hunt , IF I went with him . We found his dogs . Young dogs ... Treed a possem ! Beer was good ...

 

I'm glad that worked out amicably, it could easily have gone way south...
I imagine you two are fast friends now, and will hunt more often.

Rain caught me at 9AM, so not much I can do except think and take notes. Brought in my come-along to look it over, and am wondering what in thunder I did with my 1/4 ton chain fall. I'm going to need both of them for the next several moves

 

I get a lot of hunters lost around here . I only have 50 acre . One of the smallest plots in my area . Across the road is 1200 acre , beside me to the left is over 700 acre .behind me is over 100 acre , right side has 70 plus acre . so ... I get hunters that are " lost " often . Most times it ends well . I have only had to use my gun one time since 98 , when I got the place . I have showed it many times , a shot gun racking makes kids **** their pants when they are trespassing with an atv and firing up a joint !

 

Hello to everyone in Tennessee...enjoy your Sunday.

 

Well, it cleared and frankly my hands hurt (which is new to me). Not just ball of thumb or fingers, but the backs of 'em. I guess they are going to grow new muscles...
At 1:30PM the temperature has topped out at 58 degrees, and it is now clouding over again.

I had to use a come-along to rip a sapling loose from the vine tangle that had hold of it in its upper branches, taking off a few foot at a time as I dragged it down.
I sank an eye bolt in the top of one of the stumps as an anchor point. In post #93 to the left of the arrows you can sorta see the tree hanging in mid air...
It took two hours to rip it down.

Here's some pics with the sun up:

*Godzilla Grapevine is visible at 11 o'clock position

I need a jack if I don't want to pinch the chainsaw bar.
* again...



Vines in the tops form a utility line-like cable mass


Most of the small vines are poison ivy!

The tree on the right in the last pic is the next one on the list.

 

Before long you'll be able to wave at the neighbors while they sit on their porch.

 

What'll be interesting is when the privet hedge grows back along the road, and I can see my neighbors porch & they can see my deck, but people on the road will see nothing but hedge.

This just in from the Nasty Ol' Enquirer:

 

It's a dangler!

 

A goppledangler?

Hope everyone had a slower Monday than I had.

That wind is cold......

 

I have to stop for a day or two. I am not real sensitive to poison ivy but I have been exposed to so much of it now I have to wait until the effects go away.

Left eye is swollen, face and hands itch, especially where I have nicks and cuts - it's too much right now.

Thankfully there isn't much left to do.

 

Greywolf, exposure to poison ivy adds up over the years for people who think they are "immune". Eventually... Used to use calamine on the rash when we were kids. Haven't seen that in years, kids don't play in the woods so much I guess.