There's so much tree crap in our back yard after that storm....I've been thinking about this. I actually dreamed about it last night, rolling around in bed. That's when you know something current is really on your mind.
I went out there yesterday, surveying the scene. That's nearly all I did, survey. That's a whole lot of stuff for old tired folks to get rid of. Where we live, if you put something out by the street, they'll come get it, take it away with their equipment. No matter what it is, unless the dumpster divers get it first. But dumpster divers typically are not attracted to tree parts.
What I DID "do" yesterday was to take a hand saw out there and see how hard that would be to cut the biggest piece of that thing into sections. I know what will fit into the city's rolling dumpster, that's too long to fit. Hand saw....try.....cuss...huff, puff, abort. So I went to the great and enormous effort to get the extension cords and the circular saw out and stretched all of that stuff out across the yard, risking electrocution. This a VERY old circular saw, not even a three-prong connection on the end of the cord.
Success. Demoralized the evil giant tree part, after rolling it around and cutting it from three directions with the saw that is meant to go through a 2 x 4..
So, what I slept on, I can use Junior the Riding Mower and a rope to drag the parts out to the street. The hell with moving all of that stuff out to the street by hand, that's too much needless effort. And yes, we have even named the riding lawn mower, so we must very well be cursed somehow.
I went out there yesterday, surveying the scene. That's nearly all I did, survey. That's a whole lot of stuff for old tired folks to get rid of. Where we live, if you put something out by the street, they'll come get it, take it away with their equipment. No matter what it is, unless the dumpster divers get it first. But dumpster divers typically are not attracted to tree parts.
What I DID "do" yesterday was to take a hand saw out there and see how hard that would be to cut the biggest piece of that thing into sections. I know what will fit into the city's rolling dumpster, that's too long to fit. Hand saw....try.....cuss...huff, puff, abort. So I went to the great and enormous effort to get the extension cords and the circular saw out and stretched all of that stuff out across the yard, risking electrocution. This a VERY old circular saw, not even a three-prong connection on the end of the cord.
Success. Demoralized the evil giant tree part, after rolling it around and cutting it from three directions with the saw that is meant to go through a 2 x 4..
So, what I slept on, I can use Junior the Riding Mower and a rope to drag the parts out to the street. The hell with moving all of that stuff out to the street by hand, that's too much needless effort. And yes, we have even named the riding lawn mower, so we must very well be cursed somehow.
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