Apple Tree Pruning and Opening An Old Trail Up In the Forest

Thursday January 20, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Last tree pruned

I started out the day by pruning this apple tree, the last apple tree I have to prune.

That took about an hour and I got it done.

Old trail work in the forest

After a break doing some chair hopping around the yard, I gassed up my chainsaw and headed up to the ridge top to open an old trail.

Part of the trail was open so I was able to ride the quad runner down to here where I parked and got to work.

The old trail started up through here. I had to remove a bunch of downed brush to clear it out to get started.

And then I could go on up a bit through here where I had to remove some more stuff, mostly old downed limbs on the ground.

Can’t get through

Once I had most of the trail cleaned out I rode on up to here and got stopped by more brush.

Knocked the chain off

I was almost at the top of the trail where it came back onto an old road but I couldn’t get through the brush. I started the chainsaw and got most of the brush cut when the chain came off the saw and I had no tools to fix it.

I got through anyway

I had to break off some of the brush to get through which I did and was able to drive onto the old road.

By that time my back was screaming and I was pretty pooped out.

Old spring for a drink

So, I headed down the hill for home, stopping at the Old Indian Spring for a drink of water.

And I rode on past our water tanks which are plenty full right now with all the rain water.

Brush

I stopped and moved some of this tree brush off the road. I shouldn’t have because of my back so I only removed some of it for now and headed on home to rest up.