<div dir="ltr"><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Dave Maynard<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 2:19 PM Cecil Bearden <<a href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net">crbearden@copper.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<p>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..</p>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div> 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.</div>
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> I spent the last 2 days with some tree trimmers cutting
trees from our <br>
> service line to the house and also taking out a tree
about 8 ft from <br>
> the front of hte house that had several old wounds from
Ice aand <br>
> tornadoes that had not healed properly. Also had some
bark beetles I <br>
> did not know about...<br>
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We had a heavy wet snow last fall that came early and caught
our trees <br>
with a lot of leafy vegetation due to late rains, I lost my
work area <br>
shade tree, and several shade trees around the house. My
biggest fear <br>
now is we will get the trees leafed out this spring and then
get a wet <br>
mid April snow. Historically we have had some snows as late
as April <br>
20. They are very wet. and pile up on the corner posts as
high as 4 <br>
inches.<br>
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When I built our house back in 1985 we had over 20 trees in
the 1.5 acre <br>
yard area. Thanks to ice storms and snow, we now have 8. I
had the <br>
tree trimmers cut the trees back a lot. It should last 10
years. I <br>
will be 75 then, and probably have to hire someone to cut the
trees <br>
back. Hopefully in 10 years I can still work in the
snorklelift <br>
bucket.... This getting old ain't no fun....<br>
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Cecil<br>
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