Spent the afternoon limbing a big old Siberian Elm in front of the house today, with the help of a local guy who is like a monkey when he's up there and completely fearless. This thing had gotten so leggy, the branches were hanging way over the street and blocking the early morning sun from reaching my solar heaters, I was losing 30-40 minutes of sun exposure to this thing, so it was time to cut some of it back. Probably should have taken the other limbs down too but we ran out of time. Looks like it yielded maybe a 1/3 of a cord once the bark falls off, and a lifetime supply of branches for kindling...
Since he was being paid for his work, I let him use his own saws. His chains were incredibly dull, and his Stihl 390 was in a poor state of tune. Any one of my saws would have run circles around it. But bottom line, the guy does great work and we work well together, which is so important on jobs like this.
Since he was being paid for his work, I let him use his own saws. His chains were incredibly dull, and his Stihl 390 was in a poor state of tune. Any one of my saws would have run circles around it. But bottom line, the guy does great work and we work well together, which is so important on jobs like this.
