Stop the rain! Our trees need work!

One thing we need around here from time to time is a chainsaw, and with that we need a chainsaw user.  Is that called a sawyer?  We have tried many things here on the farm to keep it looking trimmed up, but we have a healthy fear of using chainsaws and the damage they could do...to us.

So, a couple times in the past we have talked friends or relatives to come bearing their chainsaws to clean up some of the bigger tree problems we've had.  The smart ones arrive with either little or no extra gas, so that puts a comfortable limit on how much they have to do at one time.  The chainsaws are needed for those big trees or limbs--too big for any of the tools we use.

This time Leann hired a young man from town with chainsaw experience to come up and take on a couple of the problem areas we have identified around our farm.  A constant problem is down in the creek area (above).  There is a giant willow tree with one large branch--almost a tree in itself--that has fallen down over the creek behind our house.  The tree came down just fine, but he ran into chainsaw problems when he was limbing it up into smaller pieces.  I think one part of the chain broke.

And those chainsaw problems stopped the work for today.  But he had already cleaned up several other trees and limbs around the yard and in the orchard.  And the rain stopped long enough for it all to happen.  So we are happy for what was accomplished today!

Little by little we get it all trimmed up...and then the wind blows again and we start all over with new tree problems!