Urgh, long day
May. 10th, 2008 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyProductive though. This was spring cleanup day at the church. I got there at 7AM and worked until 3PM. I did a bit of moving gravel and dirt and wood chips around, but then we got down to cleaning out the woods. One of the guys in the church does tree service, and he had felled a bunch of trees and large branches that had gotten damaged in the wind storms last year.
I backed my trailer into the woods and totally filled it with firewood. Then I hauled it around to a sunny spot, and over the course of a few hours I alternated splitting it and doing other stuff while my spindly programmer wrists recovered from wielding the maul. Got it all split eventually but I was at the limit; another 20 minutes of splitting and I'd probably have wrist trouble tomorrow.
Then the tree service guy went home and came back with at tractor and his fairly large wood chipper. Those things are amazing. We took a quite large pile of branches we'd trimmed off the apple and maple trees, and they just disappeared. I'm sure all the mass was conserved, but effectively a large pile of branches turned into a thin coating of chips that will just disappear. It's nice using a chipper that will eat a 5 inch log.
We also put up a basketball backboard that we'd been meaning to get up for a while.
Then I went shopping at Harbor Freight. They now have some lifting block (pulley and clevis hook together) that are rated 4000 pounds, so I got a couple of those; that should set us up for trebuchet action this summer. I probably should have gotten a couple more though, you never know, and they were $2.99. I also picked up a roofing nailer (I've meant to get one for a while, they're on sale, and the church is doing an all-volunteer largish roofing project in a month, and a friend is doing his house this fall). Also a whole lot of little odds and ends. It's amazing how fast $2.99 stuff turns into a hundred bucks and more.
I hit a few other stores too, got some landscape cloth, and hope to use a lot of it on Tuesday when I try to build that flower garden in the side yard.
I backed my trailer into the woods and totally filled it with firewood. Then I hauled it around to a sunny spot, and over the course of a few hours I alternated splitting it and doing other stuff while my spindly programmer wrists recovered from wielding the maul. Got it all split eventually but I was at the limit; another 20 minutes of splitting and I'd probably have wrist trouble tomorrow.
Then the tree service guy went home and came back with at tractor and his fairly large wood chipper. Those things are amazing. We took a quite large pile of branches we'd trimmed off the apple and maple trees, and they just disappeared. I'm sure all the mass was conserved, but effectively a large pile of branches turned into a thin coating of chips that will just disappear. It's nice using a chipper that will eat a 5 inch log.
We also put up a basketball backboard that we'd been meaning to get up for a while.
Then I went shopping at Harbor Freight. They now have some lifting block (pulley and clevis hook together) that are rated 4000 pounds, so I got a couple of those; that should set us up for trebuchet action this summer. I probably should have gotten a couple more though, you never know, and they were $2.99. I also picked up a roofing nailer (I've meant to get one for a while, they're on sale, and the church is doing an all-volunteer largish roofing project in a month, and a friend is doing his house this fall). Also a whole lot of little odds and ends. It's amazing how fast $2.99 stuff turns into a hundred bucks and more.
I hit a few other stores too, got some landscape cloth, and hope to use a lot of it on Tuesday when I try to build that flower garden in the side yard.
