Wedding Anniversary & Firewood, anyone?

Cassie & Jack celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary today and had a quiet time at home.   A bigger celebration is planned for next weekend since it wasn't sure that she would be over the staff infection detected the other night.  As it turned out, they could have celebrated today, but better safe than sorrry

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 

It's been an interesting last couple days here at the cabin.  Asplundh tree service has been cutting down trees under the electric power lines and trimming branches that interfere with the main lines in the area.  We are not on the main line directly, only on a feeder line, so they didn't cut any trees near our cabin.  That is a shame, since I had a number of trees that I wanted cut down.

A few of the neighbors are complaining about the job they did and one kept them from cutting any of their trees.  The trees are right on the road, but not a danger to the power lines unless we have an ice storm or one of our straight line wind storms.  Just a roll of the dice.

A worker told me that they have been threatened with legal action and all that, however the power company can and does do what they want to under their lines.  It's been 12-14 years since they have been up here, so there was lot of work to be done.  One nice thing about the job is that they cut the logs into fireplace length and removed all the branches and debris.  The logs are left neatly stacked for the customer's use.  Most people up here use a fireplace as a secondary heating source, so they will be set for next winter.

I had contracted with a local tree cutter to remove some trees that were too close to the road and made it difficult to park the motorhome.  The tree cutters are the fastest I have ever seen.  They come in, size up the tree and go right to work.  My kind of workers.  Here are some photos of them cutting down one of the 70 ft high oak trees.

See how close the tree is to the motorhome.

Cable attached to truck and Bob helping out.

They sure do work fast.

Almost done with the 1st tree.

A few of the logs cut to fireplace size

Two supervisors

They loaded all the branches and small stuff onto their trailer and were out of here in a flash.  One of them told me they take the branches to a local place where it is ground up for mulch and ground cover.  They pay the guy a small fee to dump the branches and both benefit by the transaction.  

Now if they would only split the logs into fireplace size pieces and stack it, that would be great.  It looks like we have a lot of work ahead of us splitting the wood in the next few weeks.  Sounds strange, but we won't even get the benefit of the cut wood since we are out of here before it gets that cold.  Gerry does want a fire at least a couple nights before we leave, so there will be a small benefit to us.

The rest of the logs will go to our neighbor Bob for his use.  He watches over our cabin and has been a great neighbor for many years.   

That was our day, how was yours?