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Up until 3.5 years ago, I had never dropped a tree. Now, it's second only to mowing.

I took a wild hair and bought a little patch of property that a hippie family had allowed to become over grown while they did their "back to nature" bullshit.

I've been cutting trees and brush ever since.

I don't have any exotic equipment, so I go at it with a chainsaw, a chipper, a 65 year old body, a 70 year old tractor, and a Bic lighter assisted by some stock in a charcoal lighter company.

I dug a pretty good sized hole out back to burn it all in. So far this year I've cut down and burned a 25' spruce tree that had died, (after cutting all the ancient Christmas tree lights out of it) and some type of exotic Maple tree that hippies seem attracted to. I liked the Maple tree too,...but evidently, they planted it when they were too stoned to realize that they set it out right under the power lines that feeds 3 houses out here.

For the past few years one of my favorite activities is to spend the day hanging out back by the fire hole pitching a dissected tree into it while occasionally taking sips from the pint bottle which stays secured in the bib pocket in a pair of Liberty overalls.

It's a lot of work,..and I have to take regular breaks to keep my wind up. But I'm glad that it's tree cutting/burning, pint sipping time again.

Every age has its high spots. As a young man it was chasing puzzy,...at middle age lt was making kids and being driven crazy by the wife I had then,...as a senior citizen, my high point is to cut and burn trees while I sip on a favored libation until the sun sets and I wander back to the house to shower and sink into the bed.

I like this age. I'm stooped,..every joint in my body hurts,..I'm old, ugly, and all my hair has fallen out. But I can stand by a fire pit out on the backside of my property by myself,...watch the trees I've cleared burn,..sip on a pint, and be at peace with the world.

All in all, it beats the hell out of that disco ball I was dancing under back in '77.

Up until 3.5 years ago, I had never dropped a tree. Now, it's second only to mowing.

I took a wild hair and bought a little patch of property that a hippie family had allowed to become over grown while they did their "back to nature" bullshit.

I've been cutting trees and brush ever since.

I don't have any exotic equipment, so I go at it with a chainsaw, a chipper, a 65 year old body, a 70 year old tractor, and a Bic lighter assisted by some stock in a charcoal lighter company.

I dug a pretty good sized hole out back to burn it all in. So far this year I've cut down and burned a 25' spruce tree that had died, (after cutting all the ancient Christmas tree lights out of it) and some type of exotic Maple tree that hippies seem attracted to. I liked the Maple tree too,...but evidently, they planted it when they were too stoned to realize that they set it out right under the power lines that feeds 3 houses out here.

For the past few years one of my favorite activities is to spend the day hanging out back by the fire hole pitching a dissected tree into it while occasionally taking sips from the pint bottle which stays secured in the bib pocket in a pair of Liberty overalls.

It's a lot of work,..and I have to take regular breaks to keep my wind up. But I'm glad that it's tree cutting/burning, pint sipping time again.

Every age has its high spots. As a young man it was chasing puzzy,...at middle age lt was making kids and being driven crazy by the wife I had then,...as a senior citizen, my high point is to cut and burn trees while I sip on a favored libation until the sun sets and I wander back to the house to shower and sink into the bed.

I like this age. I'm stooped,..every joint in my body hurts,..I'm old, ugly, and all my hair has fallen out. But I can stand by a fire pit out on the backside of my property by myself,...watch the trees I've cleared burn,..sip on a pint, and be at peace with the world.

All in all, it beats the hell out of that disco ball I was dancing under back in '77.

OK, I didn't know one existed, but for 30 bucks, its worth that.

You know Bristoe,

Undoing the damage done by hippies outta get you a good seat later on..

Enjoy the peace you earn by making you piece of this work better...

Carry on...

That would probably work.

I cut everything above 3" diameter up and put it in the firewood stack.

Today, I put all the limbs in the back of my F-150,..hauled it back by the fire pit, then let the tailgate down, tied a string onto a limb on the bottom and pulled the whole mess out of the back of my pick-up with the tractor.

It's supposed to rain all night. After the rain quits, I'll go back there with my chainsaw and cut the pile up into pieces that will fit in my fire hole and pitch them in it as necessary.

It all goes pretty fast once everything gets going.

I was standing there looking at all the limbs stacked in the back of my old pick up,..and it brought to mind the album cover of Led Zeppelin four.

That's quite a load of [bleep]! (f a g g o t s - a bundle of sticks or twigs bound together as fuel.).

Bristoe, glad you're still enjoying your property. Has the cane that you were dealing with a year or two ago made a comeback, or are you in good shape with it?

I renting an 80 acre pasture that has been getting overgrown with cedar and Jonny loctus spent the day with a chainsaw today ain’t as say as it used to be. Have a short window as when the grass gets too high it binds up the chain saw. Later after the cows get it down it’s just to blasted hot.
Don’t seem like im making any progress