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I am doing my best to keep my articles to a single idea or theme. Shorter? Well, there is always that. We will call shortening the posts a work in progress. Then again, on some things, how can one shorten a topic beyond a certain point? Fine, work in progress anyway. Or at least something to keep in mind.
I forgot to start the anti-biotic treatment yesterday. That is not required, so long as when I start it I follow it through to completion. I think I can, being that it is only three more days and only one pill a day after the two pills I will eventually take today. I really hope this helps. I suppose it depends on what is wrong.
I have been looking over various sites for the tools to climb the trees and do some arbor work. The question is, do I really need professional grade kit? Some of the gear, such as auxiliary rope, bull or static rope (among other names, but meaning it stretches much less so is good for load bearing but very dangerous to climb with), and some of the climbing gear is rather affordable. But when you get to pulleys which bear the weight of branches plus the gear to set that up, prices go from high to rather extreme. I know, dancing around the job. I could just climb the darn thing what what I already have and pray. And, honestly, should the weather ever support it, that might be exactly what I do. It is what most people do and why there are the number of deaths and other casualties each year.
Not much done today, a bit of writing, a bit of research, and some measuring. I could easily fit a 3' by 6' (base) island in my kitchen and have room beyond that for a half-circle eating area on one side, and still have plenty of room for foot traffic and elbow room to work aplenty. It is a rather big open kitchen. Which means I might have room for a gas stove top and a little cleaning sink along with plenty of extra counter and eating space. Though with the dining room pretty much attached, I am not sure I would do that. Ideas though, they ebb and flow of their own accord and I like to... play with each at least a bit.
Well, on to... something. I figured I would be tired today and maybe tomorrow from the road trip and fight with the new doctor yesterday. And I was right about today in any case. When you get old, that is as good as fights get, mostly. Have a good evening.
I'm not sure what the exact circumstances of your limbing job is, but when I used to cut trees or large branches, I just maneuvered them via cut angles to fall where I wanted them, never mind lowering them carefully with ropes. I dropped quite my share of 12" to 18" oak trees, and once disassembled a 24" elm tree limb by limb where space was too limited to drop the whole thing at once.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with trying to cut the limb as you suggest is that they are over power lines leading into my home or from my home to one of the outbuildings. They are 30 to 60 feet up, extend 20 to 30 feet up and away from the trunk, and do not have other branches within any kind of working distance without being tied in to even higher branches, or possibly even then. If anything, I am ignorantly downsizing things. I would guess they are 6" to 8" in diameter over the powerlines and about 12" in diameter near the trunk. I can get into a lower branch using the 18" (real length) extension aspect of the ladder I bought, I think, but I will have to... figure out rope climbing to get to the branches needed cut in a tree that is sparsely limbed until you get to the crown. All give or take, but... that is my roughtimate.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten the wires issue. The ones leading from your house to outbuildings could conceivably be deactivated and taken down (if you can find the right breakers).
ReplyDeleteBut branches like you describe can easily weigh a half ton or more. I cringe at the idea of trying to lower them by ropes...
Also, that's a huge tree you're describing.
Yep. When I get in a hole, I never get in a small one. That is not bragging, simply chagrin and truth.
ReplyDeleteAs for lowering it by hand... not so much. My goal is to part it in as small of chunks as my reach from climbing gear allows, have those chunks swing out of danger, have some means of arresting that swing, and then deciding what to do. If I have to do a huge chunk at once I will simply position it where it can drop without damaging the fence or whatever. The amount of rope required to hold, then lower, that much weight would be obscenely expensive.
I will be thinking on the disconnection part, for the wire from home to outbuilding.