Trimmed down 3 stumps w/chainsaw and then drilled holes and put a stump remover chemical in NINE stumps total. Took about an hour. I'll try to dig them up this time next year.
Dave is supposed to come up Sunday and fell 3 trees for me. He lives a few miles away. He worked for a logging company for yrs and his job was to fell trees. Shouldn't take him more than 20 or 30 min. I don't drink, but I'll be sure to pay him with beer and a good meal.
I know my limitations and these trees have to fall a certain way or they'll end up in the county route. It would be so embarrassing, and dangerous, to be out there in the middle of the road bucking logs while people were waiting to get through. Lol!
After that I'll move to creek side and it doesn't matter where they fall. That's not to say I wont make notches and try to get them to fall where I want. It's good practice and I'm getting better...
As long as the weather/wind holds there might not be a need to cut anything next winter.
I'm only cutting trees that are crowding bigger, well established trees. Sometimes that's hard to do, bc a lot of the small tree tops get tangled in some of the lower limbs of the taller, bigger trees...that's why a few of the trees I downed a couple weeks back were so sketchy. I lived.
