What’s The Downside Of Living In The Country?

Posted on 2009/10/21 by pinoyotaku74653.
Categories: About Pino.

I’ve told you before that I live in the country and I also have to tell you that there is some downsides to living in the country. One of them happened this week.

I have lots of trees around my house and around my property which is great. I love having trees round, it’s somewhere to the birds to live and I just like to look at trees. But there is a downside to trees.

Because next to my front gate I had an old tree that was pretty much dead. And then I noticed that it was starting to lean over and I decided that it was probably time to have a look at it. So I did and I decided that it was dead enough that it had to come out because if it didn’t come out it would eventually fall over and wreck my gate.

But I had no idea how to get it out because it was massive. I have a chainsaw but this tree was way too big to cut down with a chainsaw. I really had no idea what to do about it.

But because I live in the country I have farmers around and the local farmer came past on his tractor at the exact same time I was standing there looking at the tree wondering what to do about it. Farmers are very inventive and he had an easy solution.

He had a long cable that he attached to the tree about 20 feet above the ground and then he just pulled it down with his tractor. It took a few seconds and the tree was down quite safely. That was good because I was worried about getting hurt trying to cut the tree down with a chainsaw.

I was very grateful and so I offered him the firewood but he said he had enough firewood, though a few of the branches chopped up might be nice.

I had no problem cutting up the branches with my chainsaw and so he got a pile of firewood for his troubles helping me pull the tree down. (more…)

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