A few weeks ago, Sears had a sale on Craftsman tools. My wife is the best wife in the world and rushed out to get us a few. She came home with a circular saw and a chain saw! Wow. Haven’t used the circular saw yet, but last night, we busted out the chain saw for the first time. I had used one when my family lived in Texas MANY years ago, but it felt like my first time again. We read the instruction manual to make sure we’d use it safely and read the section on felling trees. Oh yeah. Felling. Trees.
On Monday the fence company we hired is going to start putting up a fence in our back yard for Parker. Over the last couple of nights we’ve been clearing the fence line of debris (of which there is MUCH) and we discovered that there was at least one place where we’d need to cut a tree with the chain saw. This tree was mostly fallen over already, but the damn thing was still livin! What was really cool was how easily the chain saw cut through this tree. I thought it was going to be really heavy and shake my hands terribly (like the one I used in Texas), but it was really smooth and cut through the tree easily.
Of course, once you start cutting, it’s hard to stop. Sharron suggested we cut down several smaller trees right along the fence line and towards the end of our daylight, we decided that one of the bigger trees needed to go too. We followed the directions and cut a wedge out of the side we wanted the tree to fall towards and then started cutting in to the other side. One snap later and the tree went right over. TIMBER seemed to ring through our woods. Of course, on the way down it hit another tree, so THAT one had to come down too. :-)
We still have a lot of work to do before Monday, and some of that includes more use of the chain saw. Woo hoo!
You forgot to add to the shopping trip to Sears the 20 gallon shop vac!
Whoops! I totally forgot that. It’s awesome. :-)