back yard purged/ wood gloat

[Armacielli]

we took a chainsaw to the trees (all but a couple) in the backyard. As the resident wood worker, I took custody of the wood

two pretty redbuds:

a 20ft maple:

A tall fir tree:

and a colorful osage orange:

the back yard looks quite bare, but it's a small price to pay for a full wood shed

 

[Russianwolf]

Now plant some seedlings and you'll have another harvest in about 5-10 years.

 

[karlkuehn]

Man, it's hard to get behind a gloat when the trees are that pretty, at least the redbuds. I'd have enjoyed the blooms for a couple more weeks myself! You gonna think about some bigger blanks before you lop that OO into pen blanks? I'd love to get my hands on some of that for turned boxes (3"x3"x14", packed four to a flat rate box, something like that!) Lemme know if you're into trades.

Edit: well heck, redbud's nice, too, for that matter! hehe Use a bunch of those blooms as packing filler and I'm a happy guy!

 

[JayDevin]

um why did you cut then down???

 

[stevers]

Originally posted by JayDevin

um why did you cut then down???

Kinda wondering that myself.

 

[GoodTurns]

Dandelions were suffering in the shade

 

[Armacielli]

according to mom "they're in the way"
but then again she's sick and in a medicated haze so we're hoping she doesn't freak out about what we did when she comes out of her medicated confusion.

I dunno why she says they're in the way. She orders me to do all the yardwork anyway. So the answer would be that the trees came down b/c ??? they were in my way???

her wanting an in-ground pool may have something to do with it, too

 

[jthompson1995]

By the way, the "fir" is actually and eastern white pine.

 

[redfishsc]

Originally posted by Armacielli

according to mom "they're in the way"
but then again she's sick and in a medicated haze so we're hoping she doesn't freak out about what we did when she comes out of her medicated confusion.

Well, before that's over, sounds like a good time to give your sales pitch about why you need a new Nova DVR-XP

 

[tipusnr]

Now comes the fun part...removing the stumps! Good luck.