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[Dave Maynard]

Farmer, just know this, that splitting wood with a wood splitter is just as
much work as doing it by hand, but you get a hell of a lot more done!

Dave Maynard

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 2:19 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> I am in the condition that to do something standing up requires something
> to lean on.  All due to lifting my Dad around after his leg amputation from
> Knee surgery and my 40 yr old back injury.  As long a I can do something
> with a piece of machinery and do not have to lift anything, I can get some
> work done.  If it requires lifting while on two feet, I have to either
> forget it, or hire help..
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> Cecil
> On 3/7/2019 12:51 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
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> I too have lost a number of trees to high winds over the last few years. A
> few were weak in spots and probably old enough to be at risk but I have
> also lost many that were sound and would have been viable for many years
> with more normal storms. The winds have been brutal especially the last 3
> years.
> I have and am still quickly losing many ash trees to the emerald ash
> borer. Is that a factor in your area yet? I have two ash trees now dying
> that were big trees when we moved to this farm 68 years ago. Probably a
> hundred that are much smaller, maybe 8" to 14" trunks, many of which I
> planted or chose to let grow after they sprouted from seed. A few of those
> are kind of close to buildings and I need to cut them soon before that
> start failing. They were supposed to out live me by a good margin... Those
> were planted specifically for shade at those buildings.
> If it gives you any encouragement I turn 77 in a few weeks and after I
> finally got past serious muscle damage from various statins after my bypass
> I am back to serious work. I'm still slower and I am still behind but I
> still spend a fair amount of time swinging from a chainsaw and I do all of
> my wood splitting by hand with an 8 pound maul. Really big blocks
> especially those that are really gnarly I split with a batch of wedges (the
> real old ones are far better than the new ones) and a 10 pound sledge.
> I have now abandoned my 30 year plans...  :-)   I only get serious about 5
> year planning now. I intend to stay active "by damn" and not always take
> the easy road. It doesn't much matter what I am doing as long as I keep
> doing. Too many of my old classmates that I stay in contact with are just
> sitting around and are barely active at all.
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:20 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
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>> > I spent the last 2 days with some tree trimmers cutting trees from our
>> > service line to the house and also taking out a tree about 8 ft from
>> > the front of hte house that had several old wounds from Ice aand
>> > tornadoes that had not healed properly.   Also had some bark beetles I
>> > did not know about...
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>> We had a heavy wet snow last fall that came early and caught our trees
>> with a lot of leafy vegetation due to late rains, I lost my work area
>> shade tree, and several shade trees around the house. My biggest fear
>> now is we will get the trees leafed out this spring and then get a wet
>> mid April snow.  Historically we have had some snows as late as April
>> 20.  They are very wet. and pile up on the corner posts as high as 4
>> inches.
>>
>> When I built our house back in 1985 we had over 20 trees in the 1.5 acre
>> yard area.  Thanks to ice storms and snow, we now have 8.  I had the
>> tree trimmers cut the trees back a lot.  It should last 10 years.  I
>> will be 75 then, and probably have to hire someone to cut the trees
>> back.  Hopefully in 10 years I can still work in the snorklelift
>> bucket....  This getting old ain't no fun....
>>
>> Cecil
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