Monday, July 9, 2012

Tree Trimming pt 1

Gerry and Cassie drove down to Baltimore for a doctor's appointment today.  It wasn't exactly successful since they had neglected to have Cassie do a prep for the appointment.  Now she has to make the drive back down to Baltimore once again.  It is a 200 mile round trip and takes at least 2 hours each way.  No problem for them, but it sure shot down the day for Cassie & Gerry.

When Gerry returned to the cabin we went up to the rental place to pick up the gas powered pole saw.  We trimmed some branches from the trees over hanging the road and put a little dent in what has to be done.  The pole saw was much heavier than I imagined it would be.  I cut down a number of branches higher up and Gerry picked them up and stored them in a pile.

One of our neighbors came out and cut some branches in front of his cabin and helped out a little.  We will be back at it the first thing in the morning and see if we can make some headway.  I hope we can cut enough on Tuesday to make a bigger dent in what has to be finished before we can get the motor home up here.

I only rented the gas pole saw for 24 hours and have to have it back by 5pm on Tuesday.  It doesn't cut as well as I thought it would and will change the saw blade before I start tomorrow.  Hopefully that will help with making the trimming much easier.

Not much else going on around here of any interest.  We are back at watching some old movies that we have on VHS tapes.
 

1 comment:

  1. I look at your pictures and see Elliot Street a block west of our house. The township highway department has this giant trimmer that looks like a lawn mower deck but they raise it perpendicular to the road and drive down trimming all the trees and shrubs in it's path. When they're done it looks like a well manicured hedge row. Wouldn't that be great at your place? One swipe down the road and it would be over. Maybe you can rent one of them for the day? Good Luck.

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