[elky] Re: today (ok, yesterday's stuff)

  • From: Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:45:00 -0700
glad to hear you are getting those stumps down. They are a big pain. Why are you trying to go so deep on them, though? We cut them off below the surface, sprinkle with stump disolver and cover them up. Problem solved. sorry, no before or after pics. Spent today on the last stump and The Pile By the Driveway is now neatly cut for firewood and stacked. it's been there a couple years.
Weather has been cloudy, misty mornings but warm, sunny afternoons. About as good as it gets.
Jake gets his staples taken out Friday and Ellie no longer poops in the house. Life is good. 

mary
Yeah but the humidity has been pretty low lately(below %50 usually). The 104* stuff is getting old though. I got one stump out last night. That's one out of 14 not including the 5 trees I still need to cut down.
Luckily there is no clay or rock here so digging in a pleasure. Exactly the opposite of what I'm used to. Course digging in sand isn't the easiest either cause for every foot you go down you have to go over 2' or more. The sand has a tiny bit of moisture when you get a foot down. I can take a flat nosed shovel and easily push it all the way in the ground around the stump to start digging it out. I just dig out what I can then cut roots then dig and cut more. I want as much out as I can get. Sawsall does some cutting but I'm using the cheapie poulan chainsaw to do most of the cutting. Cuts great considering how much sand it has chewed up. The chains are cheaper than sawsall blades.
Working on getting before pics taken and in progress and after pics. Gotta get them on the computer from the phone tonight. Well headed back out to work more on stump #2. It's only 102* here and no breeze but light shade. 






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