Today I was thinking of setting up to cut down some pepperwood trees for fire protection around the house. So I got out a ladder and started trimming some blackberry vines and limbs around the trees to be able to use the chainsaw on them.
Tom helps
They are actually on my brother Tom’s place and he was watching me from his place and offered his saw so I said bring it on over and let’s get these trees down and I’ll cut them up.
We had to put some ropes on each one to pull it down in the right direction and after awhile we got them down safely without too much trouble.
Trimming them up
Tom left and I got out my big saw. First I had to limb the trees. Lots of brush for sure.
I worked on cutting the logs up for a couple hours and got it almost cut up at this point.
I needed a rest from all the work so took it easy chair hopping until evening. Looking west as the sun just went down.
I cut up the last of the logs. Lots of brush there to get rid of, but not today.
I did get a little firewood out of the work.
Working chickens
After that I walked out front where the chickens were and they all crowded around thinking I had something for them, but I didn’t.
I’ve learned that if I sit somewhere the chickens will come over, so I sat in this chair to get them to start digging this area up for me. It worked for awhile before they lost interest and wondered off.
It was good to get those trees down and cut up. Now all I have to do is clean up the mess.
Got a lot more exercise than I needed which is always good and the sun was out nice, so nice day.
Nice that you took care of some trees and that Tom was able to help.
As for the chickens, hard to get good help nowadays. :) haha
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Google Pepper Tree before you decide to use it as firewood. Not a good idea.
Nice that you took care of some trees and that Tom was able to help.
As for the chickens, hard to get good help nowadays. :) haha